ABSTRACT

In Part 3, we want to explore in more detail how theory has been used in understanding open access. In this chapter, we set out the approach we have taken to analysing the literature in this area. In Chapter 6, which follows, we discuss the main themes of this literature in more detail. We begin Chapter 5 by setting out the key questions associated with this phase of our research, and the working definition of theory we used in our analysis of the literature. We then describe our methods in discovering and analysing the literature. We finish with an overview of the corpus we identified.