And Another Thing: University Presses
All, or almost all of the ACLS Scholarly Societies are in mutual aid relationships with university-based scholarly publishers (=university presses). In the case of folklore studies and the…
Tag: Editorial and Opinion
How to Study Folklore When You Cannot Go to Graduate School?
My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far,…
How to Study Folklore When You Cannot Go to Graduate School?
My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far,…
[This title is AI generated:] The Risks Posed by LLM-Based AI Tools: A Call to Action for the American Folklore Society
This is an essay (or “essay”) mainly authored by Copilot, the LLM-based AI tool provisioned to me by Indiana University. Spelling and typographic errors made by JBJ have…
[This title is AI generated:] The Risks Posed by LLM-Based AI Tools: A Call to Action for the American Folklore Society
This is an essay (or “essay”) mainly authored by Copilot, the LLM-based AI tool provisioned to me by Indiana University. Spelling and typographic errors made by JBJ have…
Hurricanes, Fires, and Scholarly Societies Now
A satellite image of hurricane Milton via PBS https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/live-map-track-the-path-of-hurricane-milton My parents raised me to worry about hurricanes and hurricane season. …
Hurricanes, Fires, and Scholarly Societies Now
A satellite image of hurricane Milton via PBS https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/live-map-track-the-path-of-hurricane-milton My parents raised me to worry about hurricanes and hurricane season. …
An Endeavor Worth Explaining, Uplifting, Strengthening, and Defending
Miami tradition bearer and Allen County Resident Dani Tipman (center) being recognized by Jon Kay (left) and Scott Willard, NAGPRA Program Director for the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.…
An Endeavor Worth Explaining, Uplifting, Strengthening, and Defending
Miami tradition bearer and Allen County Resident Dani Tipman (center) being recognized by Jon Kay (left) and Scott Willard, NAGPRA Program Director for the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.…
Scholarly Societies and the Costs of Whac-A-Mole
“Whack a Mole” by Kathleen Moore via Flickr CC-BY-NC 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/knmoore/5097464623/ Unbury the Lede: Here I reflect on the ways that the crises of the current mo…
Scholarly Societies and the Costs of Whac-A-Mole
“Whack a Mole” by Kathleen Moore via Flickr CC-BY-NC 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/knmoore/5097464623/ Unbury the Lede: Here I reflect on the ways that the crises of the current mo…
Extinction Event: Political Involvement in General Education Curriculum in Florida and in General
One key role placed by scholarly societies is to monitor the health of a field on a local, national and international level. Knowing what the state of affairs…
Extinction Event: Political Involvement in General Education Curriculum in Florida and in General
One key role placed by scholarly societies is to monitor the health of a field on a local, national and international level. Knowing what the state of affairs…
Storm Warning: Public Funds and Scholarly Societies
Marine Weather Warnings, via NOAA, https://marinenavigation.noaa.gov/weather-warnings.html Unburying the lede: This post is about efforts to sever the financial, and therefore mutual aid, links pr…
Storm Warning: Public Funds and Scholarly Societies
Marine Weather Warnings, via NOAA, https://marinenavigation.noaa.gov/weather-warnings.html Unburying the lede: This post is about efforts to sever the financial, and therefore mutual aid, links pr…
Museum Anthropology Review
“But at the laste, as every thing hath ende…” Today I published my final editorial as founding editor of Museum Anthropology Review. It may be that Museum Anthropology…
Questions and Answers on Publishing Journal Articles: A Series Organized by Ilana Gershon
If you are an academic author or aspire to be one, I hope that you will check out the series organized by Ilana Gershon and published on the…
What is the Museum Anthropology Review Business (Labor) Model?
Alternate title: How to give away $99,000 worth of articles. Although it has become normalized in open access/scholarly publication reform discussions to speak in this way, it often…
Don’t Miss the Great Mathers Museum Building Debate
Built in the early 1980s, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures building is an example of Brutalist architecture, a modernist style reviled by some and revered by others.…
Reflections and Reports on Open Access Published in the New Issue of Cultural Anthropology (@culanth)
The new, May 2014 issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now. It is the second issue of the journal to be made freely available online, which means anyone…
Open Access at Indiana University Bloomington
Richard Poynder doesn’t miss a thing. Indiana University: Library Committee of the Bloomington Faculty Council decides not to recommend active OA policy. http://t.co/kmMkWVaX4G — Richard Poynder…
Check Out the New Anthropod Podcast on Open Access
I really enjoyed listening to the new Anthropod podcast on open access in anthropology. Focusing on the move of Cultural Anthropology to an open access model, hosts Bascom…
Conflation as Insult (On the Gold Open Access World I Live In)
On Savage Minds, Alex Golub very generously celebrates the recent publication of a large quantity of open access journal articles in anthropology and neighboring fields. I wish to…
On The Journal of Folklore Research in 2013
2013 was a very busy year for me. It was a great year, but it was overly full at work and so-called work-life balance thus was not much…