Open Access Anthropology » Weblogs 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 The Impact of the Web 2.0 World on Scholarly Societies http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/08/15/the-impact-of-the-web-2-0-world-on-scholarly-societies/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/08/15/the-impact-of-the-web-2-0-world-on-scholarly-societies/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:41:18 +0000 jbj http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=178 A friend who is very involved in the leadership of the American Folklore Society  just shared with me a link to James Lappin’s very effective blog post “The Impact of the Web 2.0 World on the Records Management Society.”  While presented as a case study of information science/archives organizations in the UK, its arguments generalize amazingly well and provide valuable food for thought for all scholarly disciplines and societies–including those that the readers of this weblog care (or have given up caring) about.

Vis-a-vis the American Anthropological Association, the post provides a compliment to the arguments presented in a less immediately accessible way in “Anthropology of/in Circulation: The Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies.”  (As a contributor to it) I am very proud of the later paper, but it represents a dialogue on a range of issues and features a diversity of voices with several overlapping sets of interests. Mr. Lappin’s essay is a single scholar’s view on the ways that scholarly societies should be confronting the challenges and opportunities of a world in which most of their members will have access to web 2.0 tools. His discussions of the growing irrelevance of scholarly societies in the 20th century mode and his case for a new mission for the scholarly society (amplifying member’s voices in public rather than as a provider of members-only benefits of decreasing value) connects especially well with the case that Chris Kelty was making in “Anthropology of/in Circulation.” He also provides and operationalizes a number of do-able  steps of a clear cut sort–a kind of emulate-able game plan that a society leadership would be foolish not to at least give thought to.

]]> http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/08/15/the-impact-of-the-web-2-0-world-on-scholarly-societies/feed/ 1 The Late Age of Print-Downloadable http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/04/25/the-late-age-of-print-downloadable/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/04/25/the-late-age-of-print-downloadable/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:17:46 +0000 jbj http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=98 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 a Creative Common’s licensed PDF download. Professor Striphas (a tallented colleague of mine here at Indiana University) has set up a site for the book (including a blog and access to the book) and also has a more general blog. Find the book site, particularly a post on the PDF arrangement, here.  Find his everyday blog here.

Thanks go to Columbia University Press for working to be part of the future of scholarly communications. Thanks as well to Professor Striphas for the extra effort that went into this arrangement.


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]]> http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/04/25/the-late-age-of-print-downloadable/feed/ 0 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.)

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