Open Access Anthropology

Not everyone is employed at an institution that has established an stable, standard institutional repository where manuscripts, working papers, white papers, and green OA articles can be deposited. As discusussed on the Open Access Anthropology list, the Mana’o Project (a provisional subject repository for anthropology) is offline, for the time being at least. While discussions [...]

Readers of the weblog will probably want to check out the following story in the Chronicle of Higher Education.  “Humanities Journals Cost Much More to Publish Than Science Periodicals.”  It is available for just a few days before the toll gate closes.  Here is paragraph 1.
It costs more than three times as much to publish [...]

Inside Higher Education reports today on two developments in social science publishing centered on the large commercial publisher Sage.  In the story available here, we learn that the American Sociological Association, has followed the lead of the AAA and foresaken self-publishing its journals portfolio in lieu of a co-publishing agreement with Sage. This would have [...]

Inside Higher Education recently reported on a scheme through which Elsevier sought to offer $25 Amazon gift cards to anyone who gave one of its textbooks a five star rating on the Amazon or Barnes and Noble websites.  The sorry details are available in the IHE story here. Please join me in having nothing to [...]