Comments on: Open Access Journal Publishing in Anthropology

By: A changing anthropology? Some notes and quotes. « another anthro blog

A changing anthropology? Some notes and quotes. « another anthro blog — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:01:46 +0000

[...] then, to look at Max’s post about the distribution of Open Access Journals listed on the Directory of Open Access Journals. He [...]

By: The First Open Access Anthropology Day

The First Open Access Anthropology Day — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:26:42 +0000

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By: AAA Open Access: Good, but Not “Historic,” Not “Unique,” Not “Among the First” « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:45:15 +0000

[...] AAA at the end of a line, and whose recent move is far from unique and certainly not historic. As I have already detailed here, there is already an abundance of journals all of whose content is open access, and always has [...]

By: John Postill

John Postill — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:41:07 +0000

I like CM’s passage about some languages not being ‘fully understandable’. I had a lecturer in Madrid many years ago who would always encourage us to read in French. “Lean en frances tambien, por favor; lean en frances, que no es dificil”. We never did, of course, but we could have with a bit of effort and a dictionary handy. With hindsight, he should’ve have assigned us some short readings in French, Italian, Portuguese, etc, to get us started.

It’s a bit harder to do with most UK students as the other Germanic languages are rather tougher to read for a Brit than, say, Portuguese or Italian would be for a Spaniard. (And they would never forgive me)

By: Maximilian Forte

Maximilian Forte — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:38:50 +0000

Thanks very much Dylan and CM, much appreciated.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:02:41 +0000

I’ll second that. Very interesting numbers and research. it would certainly support the notion there are many anthropologies running alongside each other, rather than one Anthropology defining ideology and describing existence for all. Refreshing vista.

My favourite passage was, “The innovations in the distribution, dissemination, and circulation of anthropology are coming in large part from the so-called periphery and semi-periphery of the world system, and outside of the disciplinary centre of gravity in terms of the accumulated mass of anthropologists and anthropology programs in the U.S. and western Europe. One can only speculate about what that will mean should the predominant mode of anthropological publishing in North America (commercial print, by subscription) collapse under the weight of its own contradictions and unsustainability. Suddenly the centre of anthropological publishing would shift to currently non-hegemonic entities.”

How exciting.

By: CM

CM — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:48:09 +0000

Adding some european open access repositories to your research, I’d like to suggest a few other social sciences sites and journals, including anthropology, offering “full-text-open-access” articles: revues.org, France [http://www.revues.org/]; Persée, France[http://www.persee.fr/]; Repositorium, Portugal [http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/]; and the portuguese journals “Etnografica” [http://ceas.iscte.pt/etnografica/] and “Arquivos da Memória” [http://www.ceep.fcsh.unl.pt/ArquivosdaMemorianovaserie1.php].

Yes, I think it´s very important to look around and beyond the anglophone academic frontiers, even if the written language is not fully “understandable” :-)

Thanks (obrigada, in portuguese) for your post.

Cristina Moreno

By: Maximilian Forte

Maximilian Forte — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:18:13 +0000

Thank you John, and it’s great to see you blogging. I had some time to explore your blog more in depth over the past couple of weeks and found quite a lot of really valuable posts, leads, information, etc. I’ll be recommending it to students. And I see that you and Owen have had some very productive exchanges as well. Thanks again.

By: John Postill

John Postill — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:26:38 +0000

Nice research, Max, and a timely reminder to all of us to venture beyond the familiar confines of Anglophone academia.

Cuando tenga un rato libre me pongo a explorar esas revistas. Gracias.

By: Maximilian Forte

Maximilian Forte — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:14:24 +0000

I should also note that the blog, Open Access Anthropology, seems to be entirely divorced from the reality described above, that is, it seems to be entirely unaware of the international setting of open access publishing in anthropology and includes no representatives from that wider world. It even gives the impression that it is somehow breaking new ground, when the reality is that North Americans are already in a state where they will have to play catch-up. Indeed, none of its posts make any mention of any of the majority of non-U.S. open access journals in anthropology, a display of Eurocentrism that still seems to plague the North American discipline.