Those visiting this website may wish to follow discussions of the Open Folklore project happening elsewhere. Here are some links. The site itself, with an announcement from the lead partners (IUB Libraries and the AFS) can be found at: http://www.openfolklore.org/ Two detailed blog posts about the project have appeared, one at Savage Minds (here) and [...]
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Open Folklore Links
August 13th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Announcements · OA Journals · Open Folklore Project · Open texts · Openness · Repositories · Scholarly Societies
Duke Votes for Open Access
March 19th, 2010 No Comments
Yesterday the Academic Council at Duke University unanimously adopted an Open Access policy for scholarly articles written by the Duke faculty. – Read full article here.
Tags: Case studies · Openness
Editorial on Commerical and Not-for-Profit Scholarly Publishing
October 16th, 2009 No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Economic Issues · Ethical Failures · Integrity · Openness · Scholarly Societies · University Presses · Weblogs
Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity
September 15th, 2009 2 Comments
Readers of Open Access Anthropology will want to check out the announcements for (and press coverage of) the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity that was just announced by Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT and Berkeley. I just finished speaking to Inside Higher Education about it for a story that they will run tomorrow. I had not [...]
Tags: Announcements · Economic Issues · OA Journal News · OA Journals · Openness
Scholarly Society-Library Partnerships Webcast Now Online
August 8th, 2009 No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: AAA OA Policy · Announcements · Case studies · conferences · Economic Issues · Events · OA Journals · Openness · Repositories · Scholarly Societies
10 Publishers Moving in the Right Direction
June 4th, 2009 1 Comment
There is way more relevant news from the world of scholarly communications than any of us can keep up with. Thankfully Open Access News does an amazing job of flagging tons of important items for our consideration. A recent bit of news that I was especially glad to see was the pro-OA statement offered by [...]
Tags: Announcements · Links · OA Journal News · OA Journals · Openness · SHERPA "Green" · University Presses
The Late Age of Print-Downloadable
April 25th, 2009 No Comments
In an arrangement similar to that characterizing the publication of Chris Kelty‘s book Two Bits by Duke University Press, Columbia University Press is both selling a print edition of Ted Striphas’ new book The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control and is facilitating the author’s distribution of the book as [...]
Tags: Author Websites · Case studies · Economic Issues · Open texts · Openness · University Presses · Weblogs
Congressional bill would block Open Access
March 4th, 2009 No Comments
Reposted from Savage Minds. Important post from Change Congress over at Huffington Post: You may have heard of Big Oil, but have you heard of “Big Paper”? We know, it sounds absurd, but check this out. Right now, there’s a proposal in Congress to forbid the government from requiring scientists who receive taxpayer funds for [...]
Tags: Legal Issues · Openness
Temple Dissertations go Open Access
December 10th, 2008 1 Comment
I’m very happy to hear that Temple University (where I went to graduate school) has decided to make all future dissertations open access! More info available on Open Access News and Anthropologi.info.
Tags: Links · Open texts · Openness · Self-Archiving
The AAA OA Plan: The Press Release
October 6th, 2008 No Comments
The following is a press release from the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Find it online here. AAA Creates “Open Access” to Anthropological Research In a groundbreaking move aimed at facilitating greater access for the global social science and anthropological communities to 86 years of classic, historic research articles, the Executive Board of the American Anthropological [...]
Tags: AAA OA Policy · Announcements · Openness