Comments on: Getting Yourself Out of the Business in Five Easy Steps (With Updates) http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2009/10/12/getting-yourself-out-of-the-business-in-five-easy-steps/ Jason Baird Jackson, Associate Professor of Folklore and American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:39:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ACRLog » Stop Making Sense (Scholarly Publishing Edition) http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2009/10/12/getting-yourself-out-of-the-business-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-1600 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:11:23 +0000 http://jasonbairdjackson.com/?p=337#comment-1600 [...] possible to publish our own research in open access venues. Jason Baird Jackson’s classic Getting Yourself Out of the Business in Five Easy Steps is well-worth a read for its sound advice on transitioning from commercial to open access [...]

]]> By: » Making a Pledge from the Library of Maura http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2009/10/12/getting-yourself-out-of-the-business-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-1216 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:09:20 +0000 http://jasonbairdjackson.com/?p=337#comment-1216 [...] at Oregon State University and Gustavus Adolphus College, to individuals like danah boyd and Jason Baird Jackson. It’s a small step, but I’m convinced it’s the right thing to do, both for my own [...]

]]> By: On Hacking the Academy #hackacad | Jason Baird Jackson http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2009/10/12/getting-yourself-out-of-the-business-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-1009 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:38:16 +0000 http://jasonbairdjackson.com/?p=337#comment-1009 [...] is based on an essay that originally appeared on this site (where the longer, older version can still be found). In the book, it is the first chapter of the “Hacking Scholarship” section. As with [...]

]]> By: Hacking the Academy, Revisited [ #hackacad ] « Jason Baird Jackson http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2009/10/12/getting-yourself-out-of-the-business-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-816 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:02:31 +0000 http://jasonbairdjackson.com/?p=337#comment-816 [...] in Five Easy Steps” will be included in the edited book version of Hacking the Academy. The essay focuses on resistance to commercial enclosure in scholarly publishing. Thanks to everyone involved [...]

]]> By: 2010 in review « Jason Baird Jackson http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2009/10/12/getting-yourself-out-of-the-business-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-674 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:29:33 +0000 http://jasonbairdjackson.com/?p=337#comment-674 [...] Getting Yourself Out of the Business in Five Easy Steps (With Updates) October 2009 27 comments 4 [...]

]]> By: On the difficulties of hacking the academy | Hayrick's Blog Explorations http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2009/10/12/getting-yourself-out-of-the-business-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-377 Sat, 22 May 2010 07:48:31 +0000 http://jasonbairdjackson.com/?p=337#comment-377 [...] the difficulties of hacking the academy 1Jason Baird Jackson has a nice essay (1) on how to "get out of the business". The business to which he refers is that of "freely [...]

]]> By: Open access to publicly-funded knowledge « Fourcultures http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2009/10/12/getting-yourself-out-of-the-business-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-312 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:08:04 +0000 http://jasonbairdjackson.com/?p=337#comment-312 [...] about the academic journal industry lately, inspired not least by Prof Jason Baird Jackson’s blog posts from a perspective of American Anthropology. I’ve also been inspired by the news that the [...]

]]> By: Jason Baird Jackson http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2009/10/12/getting-yourself-out-of-the-business-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-284 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:30:14 +0000 http://jasonbairdjackson.com/?p=337#comment-284 The University of Nebraska Press is certainly a not-for-profit press although the distinction grows increasingly less clear for many other university presses, such as Rochester and Toronto, which have entered into complex agreements with for-profit publishers. While it has not (yet) followed the path being taken by presses such as Michigan, Rice, and Utah State, its not-for-profit status shows through when it uses the revenues generated by journals and popular titles (like the baseball and science fiction books) to fund the publication of important, good-for-the-world works that commercial publishers would not touch, such as Native American grammars and dictionaries.

In the current moment, the business model problem in the university press domain means that presses are moving intensively toward being either weak copies of commercial presses or toward being something that looks different but still reflects the longstanding values that made them special and important.

]]> By: David Shorter http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2009/10/12/getting-yourself-out-of-the-business-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-283 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:49:18 +0000 http://jasonbairdjackson.com/?p=337#comment-283 Great piece, Jason. You give us much to think about. Quick question, did you and I publish our books with for-profit or not-for-profit UNP? Seems that if we went with a non-for-profit press, I did so unknowingly because of the pressures of tenure and for other values (large native author list, or whatever it may be). Still, your piece is timely and perhaps more easily adopted by those of us on our side of tenure.

]]> By: Jacqueline Vickery http://jasonbairdjackson.com/2009/10/12/getting-yourself-out-of-the-business-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-277 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:39:13 +0000 http://jasonbairdjackson.com/?p=337#comment-277 Thanks for mentioning Flow and our roundtable discussion – we appreciate it!

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