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Comment on On the Harvesting of Low Hanging Fruit #oaweek by American Anthropological Association Changes Opposition to Open Access – Plus … | Book Review Store

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:39:22 +0000

[...] end, I want to make one proposal about what to do. Jason Jackson has proposed that we go after “low hanging fruit” in the move towards open access, using the example of the annual meeting program. I think book [...]

Comment on Another World is Possible: Open Folklore as Library-Scholarly Society Partnership by Anthropology Blogs Respond to AAA on Open Access | Anthropology Report

Anthropology Blogs Respond to AAA on Open Access | Anthropology Report — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:43:53 +0000

[...] Another World is Possible: Open Folklore as Library-Scholarly Society Partnership, Jason Baird Jackson Libraries and scholarly societies now have a customer-to-business relationship and it is one that is growing ever more strained as commercial publishers become central partners in many scholarly society publishing programs. I evoked the alter-globalization motto Another World is Possible in my title because I wanted to suggest that the course that we are on is not the only one available to us. I believe, on the basis of a lot of time spent over the past five years with university librarians around the Midwestern U.S., that the research library community would much rather work with scholarly societies collaboratively in the shared real and digital spaces in which scholars and librarians (and students) already labor together rather than engage antagonistically in a neoliberal marketplace that has been shaped by the business practices pioneered by firms such as Elsevier, Springer and (yes) Wiley-Blackwell. Open Folklore is just one of many university-scholarly society partnerships that are exploring how to make this alternative framework real. Shreds and Patches, 3 February 2012 [...]

Comment on On Green OA and the Future of AAA Publishing at #AAA2011 by Another World is Possible: Open Folklore as Library-Scholarly Society Partnership | Shreds and Patches

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:59:45 +0000

[...] these issues. I have shared here previously my remarks to the “Future of AAA Publishing” event (Jackson 2011b; for context, see Nichols and Schmid 2011 and Brown 2011). That presentation was on “Green Open [...]

Comment on The American Folklore Society Expresses Support for Public Access to Federally Funded Peer-Reviewed Research #RWA @whitehouseostp by Elsevier, la AAA e la rivolta in favore dell'Open Access | Professione Antropologo

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:13:27 +0000

[...] Sulla stessa posizione anche la Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), mentre si sono dichiarate contrarie la Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) e la American Folklore Society (AFS). [...]

Comment on Does the AAA Support or Oppose the Research Works Act? @AmericanAnthro by Anthropology Blogs Respond to AAA on Open Access | Anthropology Report

Anthropology Blogs Respond to AAA on Open Access | Anthropology Report — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:44:09 +0000

[...] asked if the American Anthropological Association might disavow the research works act. As Jason Baird Jackson put it: “The current moment provides a perfect, high profile opportunity to express this [...]

Comment on Does the AAA Support or Oppose the Research Works Act? @AmericanAnthro by How the Society for Cultural Anthropology is Speaking Out About the Research Works Act #RWA | Shreds and Patches

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:59:09 +0000

[...] In a recent post, I posed the question that many scholars are asking of the scholarly societies to which they belong and of the publishers with whom they work. The question concerns the stance taken by such societies and publishers with respect to the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699). The American Association of Publishers supports this proposed U.S. law, which would roll back open access policies at the National Institutes of Health and block other federal agencies of establishing public access requirements for funded research. (Many good online sources exist for learning more about this bill.) The bill is opposed by the library community, open access advocates, public interest groups, many scholars, and some not-for-profit publishers. [...]

Comment on Does the AAA Support or Oppose the Research Works Act? @AmericanAnthro by The question is not ‘does’ but ‘can’ | Savage Minds

The question is not ‘does’ but ‘can’ | Savage Minds — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:21:25 +0000

[...] at his blog, Jason Jackson wonder whether that AAA supports HR 3699 or not. It’s a good question, but I think there is an even better one to ask: can the AAA [...]

Comment on Behind the Research Works Act: Which U.S. Representatives are Receiving Cash from Reed Elsevier? by Wikipedia and other sites to go dark for 24 hrs on Wed. 1/18/12 « The Patriot Spot

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:28:41 +0000

[...] to “a thorough roundup of blogposts on this, including discussions of which publishers are behind it and supporting it, and what researchers can do about [...]

Comment on Behind the Research Works Act: Which U.S. Representatives are Receiving Cash from Reed Elsevier? by Piracy and libraries « Rturpin's Blog

Piracy and libraries « Rturpin's Blog — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:36:12 +0000

[...] Darrell Ipsa and Carolyn Maloney have proposed a bill, HR 3699, to protect them. Both receive contributions from well-known Dutch publisher Reed [...]

Comment on Association of American Publishers Issues Horrible New Press Release in Support of a Horrible Bill: Where Do You Stand? by Research Works Act – H.R. 3699

Research Works Act – H.R. 3699 — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:27:01 +0000

[...] and open-access activist Jason Baird Jackson suggests that the goal of this bill is to support a status quo that benefits relatively affluent groups at [...]