Open Access Anthropology » Ethical Failures http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org Promoting Open Access in Anthropology Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:14:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Editorial on Commerical and Not-for-Profit Scholarly Publishing http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/10/16/editorial-on-commerical-and-not-for-profit-scholarly-publishing/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/10/16/editorial-on-commerical-and-not-for-profit-scholarly-publishing/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:56:54 +0000 jbj http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=183 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 essay can be found on my website here: http://wp.me/p6MUY-5r . Thanks!

]]> http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/10/16/editorial-on-commerical-and-not-for-profit-scholarly-publishing/feed/ 0 Corporate Publisher Sage Captures and Encloses Sociology, Spoils the “Good News” by Making Political Science Angry http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/07/08/corporate-publisher-sage-captures-and-encloses-sociology-spoils-the-good-news-by-making-political-science-angry/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/07/08/corporate-publisher-sage-captures-and-encloses-sociology-spoils-the-good-news-by-making-political-science-angry/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:01:31 +0000 jbj http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=151 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 been a straight forward story of celebration or mourning (depending on where you stand), were it not co-occuring with the other storyline presented in the IHE story.  A fully Saged owned political science journal–Political Theory–is at the center of a controversy related to a flubbed firing/hiring/replacing of the journal’s editor.  The episode revealed for many political scientists the conflicts built into corporate owned or controlled journals and showed again the misallignment of commercial and scholarly values.  Read all about it and think twice when Sage calls and asks you to take up an editorship.  Thanks IHE.

(Forget open access.  Why again are we are dismantling the university press system and selling/giving away the pieces to these folks?)

]]> http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/07/08/corporate-publisher-sage-captures-and-encloses-sociology-spoils-the-good-news-by-making-political-science-angry/feed/ 0 Another Reason Not to Trust Corporate Publishers (and to Doubt the Societies Who Work with Them) http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/07/04/another-reason-not-to-trust-corporate-publishers-and-to-doubt-the-societies-who-work-with-them/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/07/04/another-reason-not-to-trust-corporate-publishers-and-to-doubt-the-societies-who-work-with-them/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:17:35 +0000 jbj http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=149 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 do with Elsevier.

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