Open Access Anthropology

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 [...]

I think that this is the week’s big news in scholarly communications issues.  Its not open access, but it is not-for-profit. There is much that could be said.  Hopefully there will be some discussion among anthropologists, especially in light of the AAA’s experiences working with the University of California Press Journals program.  For myself, I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Planned Obsolescence has a post about the announcement “that the University of Michigan Press is being restructured as an academic unit housed under the University of Michigan Library,” noting that the interesting thing about this is the “transformation of the press from a revenue center to something more like a service organization within the institution.”