Readers of the Open Access Anthropology blog might have an interest in an opinion essay that I (Jason Baird Jackson) wrote recently. In it, I lay out some modest steps that scholars interested in changing the direction of scholarly communications might take. The focus is a plea to withdraw from working with commercial publishers. The [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Ethical Failures'
Editorial on Commerical and Not-for-Profit Scholarly Publishing
October 16th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Economic Issues · Ethical Failures · Integrity · Openness · Scholarly Societies · University Presses · Weblogs
Corporate Publisher Sage Captures and Encloses Sociology, Spoils the “Good News” by Making Political Science Angry
July 8th, 2009 No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Economic Issues · Ethical Failures · Integrity · Political Science · Sage · Scholarly Societies · Sociology
Another Reason Not to Trust Corporate Publishers (and to Doubt the Societies Who Work with Them)
July 4th, 2009 No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Elsevier · Ethical Failures · Fraud · Integrity