Open Access Publishing and University Researchers’ Agency Towards Reshaping the Publishing Habitus

Drawing on Bourdieu’s concepts of field and habitus, this qualitative study adopted a multiple-case design to investigate how university researchers exercised their agency as they engaged in actions open access publishing, such influenced the themselves an institution. Guided by four-dimensional approach conceptual framework, unveiled complex processes which played agentic roles publishing reshaped own habitus. They utilised various kinds personal social resources mediate for purpose producing intended outcomes institutionally recognised achievement. As institutional structure terms policy reformulation, also researchers’ habitus incremental manner was augmented include new form action. The revealed duality discourse, which, conforming institutionality, both enabled constrained actions.