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“open access” in its diverse forms, related to making “published” knowledge as freely and widely available as possible
I recently participated in an international study of “quality assurance for open access journals” led by Uwe Müller at Humboldt University in Berlin at the Institute for Library and Information Science along with Prof. Peter Schirmbacher. The reason for my being invited to participate is due to the fact that I am currently the lead […]
Read More…A report by Scott Jaschik in Inside Higher Education (Abandoning Print, Not Peer Review, Feb. 28, 2008) announces what the reporter thinks will be a major new challenge to print publications in academia: Those tracking the move toward open access publishing look for milestones such as the new federal law that will make much research […]
Read More…Following from yesterday’s post on open access publishing in anthropology, and thanks in part to discussions presented on the antropologi.info blog, I wanted to post some continuing news and discussion, ending with what may be perceived as an outrageous proposal of my own. To start, an article published inInside Higher Ed on 13 February, 2008, […]
Read More…From now until 01 March, 2008, everyone with Internet access can freely download copies of articles on Open Access Anthropology in the latest issue of Anthropology News, the newsletter of the American Anthropological Association. The available articles are: Mission Improbable and the Possible Mission, by Lee D Baker Process, Access and Value, by Don Brenneis […]
Read More…I am sorry that I managed to miss this journal, until recently: The International Journal of Internet Science (IJIS) This journal combines Internet Science with Open Access. Conduct your research on the Internet, study the Internet, and make the papers with your results freely available on the Internet via this journal. A peer reviewed open […]
Read More…From: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration Cape Town Open Education Declaration: Unlocking the promise of open educational resources We are on the cusp of a global revolution in teaching and learning. Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use. These educators are creating a world where each […]
Read More…From Inside Higher Education for January 3, 2008, by Andy Guess: It’s the central paradox of 21st-century college students: Despite embracing radically new ways of communicating with each other and learning about the world, they still remain wedded to the old-fashioned, paper-bound textbook. That steadfast commitment to the printed page isn’t shared only by students. […]
Read More…A Canadian news story on a momentary stalling of the entrenchment of the copyright culture in Canada. The weight of this culture of permission, of closed access, is felt especially heavily in Canadian universities, where royalties are collected, presumably on the behalf of authors, while restricting the extent of access to any given author’s work. […]
Read More…The notion of academic colonialism that is used to refer to the extraction of information from one place, which is then repackaged, reconstructed, and published in another (often at a cost that proves prohibitive for buyers in the place from which the information was extracted) is something I have found to be both useful and problematic as […]
Read More…Several months ago, the Media Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, was the site of an informal discussion on journals and open access publishing. It was a wide ranging debate, involving issues of delays in the peer review process, to the nature of peer review, the origins of peer review, the question […]
Read More…The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, or simply the ASA, has produced what it calls ASAonline. I will quote the description of this novel, welcome, and refreshing change at length. ASAonline is, “a new online publication series to be launched in 2008. The series will specialise in long in-depth articles in […]
Read More…Thanks to a post on Antropologi.info announcing a new issue, free and fully available online, of Radical Anthropology. One can find the downloadable PDF at: http://www.radicalanthropologygroup.org/journal_01.pdf Given a post here a few days ago about “public anthropology” it would seem that there is another brand of anthropology that also complements what is being advocated on […]
Read More…This entire blog effort is devoted to finding “paths ahead” for a decolonized, liberatory, and public anthropology, and I do not want to render the effort entirely laughable here by presuming to rush to the finish line. However, since all projects begin with certain predispositions (otherwise, they would begin from nowhere), then in the spirit […]
Read More…From the blog of Jim Till, currently a member of the Executive Committee of Project Open Source|Open Access at the University of Toronto: “Christian Sylvain, the Director, Policy, Planning, and International Affairs of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), made a presentation, Open Access and SSHRC, at Open Access: the New World of […]
Read More…The following are two very similar statements that I am posting here for archival purposes, especially since I seem to continually misplace them in my own files and they are starting to vanish from the Internet. ********** Posted by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA) SSHRC Transformation – Commentary and discussion pages Maximilian Forte, […]
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