This dataset contains deidentified interview transcripts for Niamh Quigley's Master of Information Management thesis at Curtin University, Perth, Australia titled 'Engagement with open access among Curtin University humanities researchers: Exploring the perceptions of, and barriers to publishing OA' Six interviews took place from November 2020 - January 2021 (five interviews conducted in person at Curtin University, Perth, and one online interview). The six interviewees are experienced researchers in the Faculty of Humanties at Curtin University, and consented to sharing their deidentified data as a publicly available dataset. The interview guide is also publicly available (https://10.5281/zenodo.4774475) The project supervisor was Dr Hollie White, Lecturer, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry. This research project has approval from the Curtin University Human Research Ethics Office (HRE 2020-0598).