Open Access Anthropology » Events http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org Promoting Open Access in Anthropology Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:19:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Scholarly Society-Library Partnerships Webcast Now Online http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/08/08/scholarly-society-library-partnerships-webcast-now-online/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/08/08/scholarly-society-library-partnerships-webcast-now-online/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:33:06 +0000 jbj http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=173

The video archive version of the recent Association for Research Libraries (ARL) webcast on “Reaching Out to Leaders of Scholarly Societies at Research Institutions” to which I contributed is now available online.  It can be gotten to for free, all that is required is signing in for ARL headcounting purposes.  Watching it in this way provides the same content experienced when the program was being done live.  The event lasted one hour.  IU ScholarWorks Librarian Jennifer Laherty and I were the first of two pairs of speakers.  We present after about five minutes of introduction from the ARL staff organizers who spoke on the general goals of the initiative of which the program was a part.  Q&A follows the second presentation on data projects in astronomy (by Sayeed Choudhury and Robert Hanisch). Find the webcast via a link available here:  http://www.arl.org/sc/faculty/coi/COIwebcast2009.shtml.

In my comments I address briefly my experiences working on scholarly communications issues in anthropology and in folklore studies.

]]> http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/08/08/scholarly-society-library-partnerships-webcast-now-online/feed/ 0 The First Open Access Anthropology Day http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/04/28/the-first-open-access-anthropology-day/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/04/28/the-first-open-access-anthropology-day/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:25:35 +0000 Sara http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=109 As I posted previously here, In the 1st of May 2009, we will be celebrating the first Open Access Anthropology Day. Anthropologists, in this day, show their support to Open Access Anthropology. Open Access Anthropology is interested in creating open access alternatives to anthropological publications by promoting Open Access Anthropology Journals. In addition, at this day we encourage you to promote further the notion of self-archiving among your colleagues. If you would like to be an active member in this event, here are some suggestions:

How to Participate in Open Access Anthropology Day

1- You can join the event over Blogger Unite, which it would not consume a minute from your time

2- Let others in our field learn about Open Access Anthropology Day by sharing with them this post via social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, etc

3- If you have a blog, you can spend some time to write a post at that day about any topic associated with Open Access Anthropology

4- Professors can discuss topics related to Open Access Anthropology with their students at that day

5- Graduate and undergraduate students can discuss with their colleagues and professors the importance of Open Access Anthropology

6- You can share with us any open access publication of yours. You can leave its URL in the comment’s section below

7-  Also you can share with us your experience with Open Access Anthropology Journals either by writing a post about it in your blog, or share it with us here under the comment’s section

8- You can copy and paste into your blog’s text sidebar the HTML code of the event’s badge, which is posted in the Blog Unite as I am doing in my blog’s sidebar

9- I strongly encourage you to download the poster, which Kerim and Alex created promoting self-archiving , and email it to the members of your department. Also, you can print the poster out, if you wish, on a nice color printer and post it to the bulletin board of your department

Please feel free to let us know if you have further ideas, we are always open to new ones

To learn more about the importance of Open Access Anthropology and some related topics you can visit these posts:

Why Open Access?

Open Access Journal Publishing in Anthropology by Max

Stumped by AnthroSource by Kerim

A Short Summary of Recent Open Access News by Lorenz

Happy Open Access Anthropology Day

]]> http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/04/28/the-first-open-access-anthropology-day/feed/ 6 Save the date – Open Access Week 19-23 October 2009 http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/04/24/save-the-date-open-access-week-19-23-october-2009/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/04/24/save-the-date-open-access-week-19-23-october-2009/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:59:25 +0000 kerim http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=95 From the PLOS website:

After the resounding success of our first ever Open Access Day in 2008, where we had nearly 130 participating organizations from almost 30 countries, we are pleased to announce that this year’s events will be scheduled during the week of 19-23 October 2009.

Why a week rather than a day? When we asked for feedback from the folks taking part last year, while they said that they had enjoyed the “event-in-a-box” approach, many of them found that cramming everything into one day was tricky (especially given international time differences) and that spreading activities over a week to suit their individual needs would be easier.

What is also particularly pleasing about choosing this week is that 19 October is PLoS Medicine’s fifth birthday so any planned community-led events to celebrate this important milestone can do double duty.

The organizing forces behind Open Access week remain unchanged from last year namely: PLoS, SPARC and Students for FreeCulture but we also wish to add a technology partner who could assist us with streaming live web coverage of round table discussions or talks from prominent advocates and post event delivery. So if you are reading this and you work in this field or have significant experience of it and want to join the team please email Donna Okubo (dokubo@plos.org).

We will be launching our Open Access Week 2009 site shortly but in the meantime, you can sign up here.

]]> http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/04/24/save-the-date-open-access-week-19-23-october-2009/feed/ 1 Performance Studies Gets Burned by Big Publishing http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/03/16/performance-studies-gets-burned-by-big-publishing/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/03/16/performance-studies-gets-burned-by-big-publishing/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:08:56 +0000 jbj http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=90 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, the material can only be found behind the pay wall of ProjectMuse or MIT Press-Journals (or in the pages of TDR), but here is an abstract for the section containing various sub-articles:

Concerning Theory for Performance Studies
Richard Schechner, Talia Rodgers, Claire L’Enfant, Judith Butler, Marvin Carlson, Tracy C. Davis, David Savran, Shannon Jackson, Branislav Jakovljevic, Jill Dolan, Phillip Zarrilli, W.B. Worthen, Joseph Roach and Peggy Phelan
Abstract

In 007, Routledge published Theory for Performance Studies as part of its Theory 4 series, listing Philip Auslander as author. When, in August, The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that much of the book was lifted word-for-word from the template for the series, Theory for Religious Studies by Timothy K. Beal and William E. Deal, TDR editor Richard Schechner convened via email and phone conversations a “TDR Forum,” asking leaders in the field to respond to the book and the series. Schechner and other respondents address issues of plagiarism, corporate takeovers of academic publishing, and the dumbing down of performance studies, asking why a notable scholar such as Auslander would undertake such an egregious piece of “scholarship.” Deal and Beal answer some questions put to them by Schechner, and Routledge’s Claire L’Enfant and Talia Rodgers offer their perspectives.

The abstract does not do justice to the mess that the commentators are discussing.

Thankfully some of the various commentators recognize this (really crazy) incident not as an oddball mistake but as a symptom of the deeply compromising changes unfolding in (commercial) scholarly publishing.  One need not read every word of the TDR piece to get the general picture of the mess that the enclosed and for-profit scholarly communication system is getting all the disciplines into.  This Routledge case is another bit of evidence that interdisciplinary cultural studies fields seem particularly vulnerable to certain kinds of dangerous (and profitable) fooling around.

For open access advocates, the lessons will be transparent. Yikes.

]]> http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/03/16/performance-studies-gets-burned-by-big-publishing/feed/ 1 Open Access Awards Presented at the AAA Meetings http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/11/25/open-access-awards-presented-at-the-aaa-meetings/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/11/25/open-access-awards-presented-at-the-aaa-meetings/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:45:34 +0000 jbj http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=72 While much of its blog work actually takes place on Savage Minds and elsewhere, I have a sense that OA advocates interested in what is happening in anthropology may occasionally check in here or have an RSS feed here. For such folks, I can note briefly the results of the recent Savage Minds OA awards, spearheaded by Chris Kelty and announced to a crowd of real life human beings in the lobby of the San Francisco Hilton on Saturday evening (11/22/2008) during the meetings of the American Anthropological Association.

Most Excellent Blog
Runner up: Anthropologi.info
Most Win: Culture Matters

Most Excellent OA Journal
Runner Up: Cultural Analysis
Most Win: Anthopology Matters

Most Excellent Blog or Journal that does not end in “Matters” (The Category formerly known as Most Excellent Unclassifiable Digital Thingamajob)
Runner Up: Digital Anthropology
Most Win: Neuroanthropology

For details, one can consult Savage Minds postings here, here, here, and here, as well as notes appearing on antropologi.info, Culture Matters, and Neuroanthropology.

(For the record, I am a small fish on Cultural Analysis‘ otherwise very distinguished editorial board and I am very proud that a journal bridging folklore studies and neighboring disciplines in the human sciences did so well in the voting. If you do not know the journal, check it out here.)

]]> http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/11/25/open-access-awards-presented-at-the-aaa-meetings/feed/ 0 Mark your calendars – Open Access Day is coming your way http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/08/29/mark-your-calendars-open-access-day-is-coming-your-way/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/08/29/mark-your-calendars-open-access-day-is-coming-your-way/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:13:39 +0000 golub http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=56 Get ready — Open Access Day is October 14. You can learn more about what’s planned or read the full press release.

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