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…
Tag: Editorial and Opinion
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…
Notes on Thoughtfulness in Scholarly Publishing (3): In This, I Support Elsevier
[Updated] This series began in the wake of an instance in which I, to the irritation of most observers, questioned a case of self-piracy. Soon thereafter, self-piracy was…