Open Access Anthropology

IHE is running a piece entitled Ronald Regan vs. The University Press which provides a nice overview of the problems facing university presses today. One of his key points is that scholarly publishing produces a public good, one that is by its very nature not designed to be or likely to be profitable. […]

(Cross posted at Savage Minds.)
AAA Executive Director, Bill Davis released a press release in which he made public how the AAA finances its publication costs:
The cost of publishing and distributing AAA’s 22 peer-reviewed print and online journals is anticipated to be over $2.1 million in 2007. … Unlike some association publishers who subsidize other […]

(this has been crossposted from Savage Minds)
The latest issue of Anthropology News is out and features an op-ed by Alex Golub (i.e. “me” — this blog doesn’t seem to attribute entries to particular authors) on open access publishing and the AAA (you can read the full text of the piece here). Actually that is not […]

Online Journalism Review (from the Annenberg Center For Communications) is running an long and interesting piece today on the top mistakes made by new online publishers . The author, Robert Niles, if bully on the possibility of making money by publishing online. However, he points out that some of mistakes that people make when going […]

Sci-fi writer and blogger Cory Doctorow has an article in Forbes about why he gives away free electronic versions of his books:
The thing about an e-book is that it’s a social object. It wants to be copied from friend to friend, beamed from a Palm device, pasted into a mailing list. It begs to be […]