For years now Open Access news from the AAA has been nothing but one frustration after another, so it is great to finally have some unqualified good news:
The Society for Cultural Anthropology (a section of the American Anthropological Association) is excited to announce a groundbreaking publishing initiative. With the support of the AAA, the influential journal of the SCA,?Cultural Anthropology, will become available open access, freely available to everyone in the world. ?Starting with the first issue of 2014, CA will provide world-wide, instant, free (to the user), and permanent access to all of our content (as well as ten years of our back catalog).
Well, OK, maybe not completely unqualified? There was this:
we hope that you will continue to access CA by means of Anthrosource. The statistics these downloads generate continue to play an important part in the allocation of revenue, including to?Cultural Anthropology, and thus help subsidize this new publishing venture.
If they want us to use Anthrosource they are going to need to make it, you know, actually useful. Otherwise they should find some other way to allocate revenue.
P. Kerim Friedman is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures at National Dong Hwa University, in Taiwan, where he teaches linguistic and visual anthropology. He is co-director of the film Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!, winner of the 2011 Jean Rouch Award from the Society of Visual Anthropology. Follow Kerim on Twitter.
Source: http://savageminds.org/2013/03/11/cultural-anthropology-goes-full-oa/
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