ABSTRACT
We began this book by quoting the famous maxim popularised by Kurt Lewin, “There is nothing as practical as a good theory”. As we observed at the outset, this was an appeal to theorists and practitioners to work together more closely, rather than a statement of a widely recognised reality. The appeal is still relevant in many fields relating to the social sciences and humanities, including the one on which we have focused, that of open-access publishing and dissemination of research outputs.
