The University of Tartu, Appreciated
I recently spent an extended time in Tartu, Estonia. I had the wonderful opportunity to be a Fulbright Specialist visiting the Departments …
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 …
What is the current status of confidentiality and non-disclosure policies at HAU?
What is the current status of confidentiality and non-disclosure policies at HAU? Why can’t the policies be published? Those are my questions. …
Material Vernaculars: Institutional Role, Review, Authors, and Genres
The new Material Vernaculars series is co-published by the Mathers Museum of World Cultures with a huge amount of heavy lifting from …
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 …
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. …
Scholarly Communication Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Davis
Circulated on behalf of a colleague… A new UC Davis initiative on “Innovating the Communication in Scholarship” (http://icis.ucdavis.edu/) is hiring a 2 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Good News Roundup
There is way too much stuff going on in my life and work these days. Most of it is really good stuff, …
Its Like Woodie Guthrie’s Grand Coulee Dam, Only Its a Green #OA Policy for the UC System
“But now the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam’s fair land…” Someone needs to write a song in the style of Woodie …