Open Access Anthropology

Planned Obsolescence has a post about the announcement “that the University of Michigan Press is being restructured as an academic unit housed under the University of Michigan Library,” noting that the interesting thing about this is the “transformation of the press from a revenue center to something more like a service organization within the institution.”

I am obviously out of it, as I am only now hearing about it now, but I just saw the table of contents for the newest issue of TDR (The Drama Review), which devotes considerable attention to unpacking a rather dramatic instance of publisher-induced plagiarism (for profit) in the interdisciplinary field of Performance Studies. Regrettably, [...]

Reposted from Savage Minds. Important post from Change Congress over at Huffington Post: You may have heard of Big Oil, but have you heard of “Big Paper”? We know, it sounds absurd, but check this out. Right now, there’s a proposal in Congress to forbid the government from requiring scientists who receive taxpayer funds for [...]

Via digital humanities guru Dan Cohen, I learned about an exciting new Open Access initiative. I’ve long known about the Public Knowledge Project’s Open Journal Systems (OJS), which is used to power many peer-reviewed Open Access journals, but it seems that one of the people involved in that project, John Willinsky, is taking it to [...]