A short summary of recent open access news
AAA Creates “Open Access” to Anthropological Research announced the American Anthropological Association two weeks ago. But in reality, open access is only granted to two journals (American Anthropologist and Anthropology News) and to articles that are at least 35 years old!
AAAs move has received mixed reactions as Peter Suber’s Open Access News and Inside Higher Ed summarize.
Is it a first step as Alex Golub suggests or is it rather a way to avoid discussions about actual Open Access as Alexandre Enkerli argues?
Will AAAs recent move lead to greater divisions between the AAA and anthropologists who want to engage with the wider world by making their research more accessible online?
Additionally, the AAA has announced that they are going to conduct preliminary research on the economic issues faced by scholarly society publishers in the humanities and social sciences as consequence of the demand for open access to their peer reviewed journals, Culture Matters informs.
Until now, the AAA has opposed Open Access to journal articles.
More than 80% of all anthropology open access journals are published outside of the U.S, as Maximilian Forte has found out.
As last year, the Savage Minds bloggers are going to promote the Open Access issue at the annual meeting of the AAA. Chris Kelty writes:
Ergo, I am hereby inaugurating an independent awards show to be performed at the AAA. I’m willing to organize it this year, if others are willing to help out (please!?). Nothing too extravagant or long, I’m thinking a guerrilla ceremony in the lobby. I’ll need people to hold the signs, act as paparazzi, maybe a little musical act before and after… and especially: NOMINATIONS. Post them here, or email me (ckelty at ucla etc ). I’m not sure what the prizes will be yet, but they will be good, I promise.
These are the categories I’ve come up with so far:
1. most excellent (and second most excellent) open access article in anthropology or associated disciplines, 2007-8. open access = green, gold, self-archived or institutional repository.
2. most excellent open access teaching materials 2007-8. Syllabus, teaching materials, assessment ideas, technologies or tools, ideas for teaching.
3. most excellent idea for making anthropology public.
4. most (or least?) excellent new theoretical fad.
5. most excellent anthropology blog (SM recuses itself, naturally).
6. most excellent business plan idea for the AAA.
7. most excellent award category not listed here.
As the Open Acess Anthropology blog, I forgot that the 14th of october was the Open Access Day
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