ABSTRACT

In this chapter we want to set out in more detail our analysis of the theory-informed literature on open access which we identified following the methodology explained in Chapter 5. We talk in detail of how studies in this area both use existing theory and generate new theory. This chapter begins by delineating different existing theories used in the literatures which analyses OA. We go on to explore how theory is used — the part it plays in the different studies in the literature. Finally, we analyse theory generated by studies of OA.