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Good News for Open Access
Just saw this on twitter and followed the link- The Society for Cultural Anthropology (a section of the American Anthropology 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 […]
Predatory Open Access Archaeology Journals or just poor quality? PAGEPRESS Publishers
February 11, 2013
I am in the process of updating Open Access Archaeology’s searchable database of Open Access Journals. Some journals have ceased to exists (online at least) others have moved or change their OA policy etc. During the search I came across one publisher of OA archaeology journals that seemed to fit the definition of Predatory Open […]
Another Day, Another Society Against Open Access
February 10, 2013
I was alerted to The American Philological Association (APA)’s letter against the current UK Open Access policy, by AWOL. However, they did ask for comments from others on the subject. Here is the letter I sent them outlining why I think there are some serious flaws in their response: Dear Denis Feeney and Michael Gagarin, […]
digipubarch Conference Video- Publishing in archaeology: Open Access and the REWARD project
November 15, 2012
A presentation on the subject of Open Access in Archaeology, something that is near and dear to my heart, at the Digital Engagement in Archaeology Conference: Abstract: Publishing in archaeology: Open Access and the REWARD project Publishing in archaeology is evolving along with trends in open access, open data and the semantic web. The open access […]
Why Scholarly Societies Are Against Open Access
September 14, 2012
As I mentioned earlier today I wrote an article for the Index on Censorship special issue about censorship of academia. The online version unfortunately was missing a table that was in the print version. It was right before I say, Most of the societies that opposed or were critical of open access in the White […]
Censors on Campus- The Open Access Backlash
September 14, 2012
I was recently asked to write an article for the Index on Censorship special issue about censorship of academia. Specifically, I was asked to write about the AIA’s stance against Open Access ( I blog about it here and here and the boycott I organized here). Being as fair as I could stayed away from […]
Happy Endings: ACCG and Open Access
May 28, 2012
Apologies to all my subscribers who do not care about Open Access or antiquities buying for filling up your RSS and email with this post. This is just to say that the ACCG has been quite reasonable after I explained that their first press release regarding the AIA and Open Access misrepresented Open Access Archaeology […]
Predatory Open Access Publisher OMICS Publishing Group Hits New Low in Blog Spamming
April 27, 2012
The other day I wrote about how predatory publisher OMICS was spamming my blog. For those of you that are not familiar with the term blog spam, it is when a person/bot posts comments on websites and blogs, usually very low quality comment or comments that do not make sense in the context of the […]
Predatory Open Access Publisher OMICS Publishing Group: Now Blog Spamming
April 13, 2012
Not all Open Access publications are good. Some are basic Nigerian scams, and I don’t mean that as a figment of speech, some literally are scams run out of Nigeria. They ask for money and will publish anything. Interestingly just yesterday it appears that some pseudoscientists got scammed, Scam Publisher Fools Swedish Cranks. There is […]
Journal of Field Archaeology is Open Access for Next Month and Half
April 2, 2012
So Maney is running a promotional deal were you can view the last 3 years of the Journal of Field Archaeology online for free. The deal lasts till May 15th. It is a promotion so they are trying to get you to buy the journal. The price is still too expensive for me or most […]
Archaeological Links- Great list of Archaeology Resources to Check Out
February 9, 2012
Archaeological Links just got a new website- http://archaeologicallinks.wordpress.com/ I was looking at it this morning and it has blogs, blogfeeds, Data and resources, Journals, lists of other archaeology link resources, magazines, maps, and the list goes on. It seems to focus heavily on Egypt and that part of the world but it does have a […]
Open Access Journal Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica – Natural Sciences in Archaeology
October 29, 2011
Someone was kind enough to point me in the direction of a open access journal I did not have on my list- Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica – Natural Sciences in Archaeology. The website is here
Open Access Week Archaeology Journals Search Engine
October 28, 2011
To make it easier to find articles you want I created a custom search engine that only searches the 23 archaeology journals that have gone open access for open access week (Update- link removed, open access week is over so the search engine no longer works). It should make it easier to find what you […]
More Publishers Going Open Access for Open Access Week- 23 journals so far
October 26, 2011
Update- I created a search engine to search all open access archaeology journals for both open access week and normal. Maney is opening up 22 archaeology journals to free access during open access week. This is a good sign and goes well with the Internet Archaeology’s decision to go open access as well for open […]
Open Access Journal for CRM
October 24, 2011
Open Access Week is here. To celebrate I would like to highlight a open access journal- CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship. It is peer reviewed too.
Open Access Week Post- Public Archaeoloy, Peer Review
October 23, 2011
As part of Open Access week I would like to highlight a peer reviewed journal that is Open Access.
The future of AAA publishing: Opening a conversation- A comment on not taking publishers at their word
October 20, 2011
There is an interesting conversation going on over at the AAA blog- The future of AAA publishing: Opening a conversation. I would like to comment on one of the statements- “Publishing academic journals (even digital-only ones liberated from the cost of printing and moving paper) entails significant expense, including administration, copy-editing, type-setting, web development, hosting […]
Open Access Week is Coming
October 19, 2011
Next week is Open Access Week! Open Access Week, a global event, now in its fifth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access. They even have a website- http://www.openaccessweek.org/ It is a nice website. My favorite part is the “Buy Open […]
Internet Archaeology and Open Access
October 17, 2011
It has been a little while since I have posted anything on publishing and open access but Open Access week is coming up.
Hacking Scholarship
September 13, 2011
I came across Hacking Academy via The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. There is a great section in this book on hacking scholarship e.g. publications. All of the sub-sections are pretty short but contain some good statements. My favorite is “burn the boats”. It is a lot of the same old open access rhetoric, […]
Beware of the Snake Oil in Publishing
August 29, 2011
via a post from John Hawks- Seth Godin: “Strangers and friends: understanding publishing”. It’s very seductive for an author to believe that a fairy godmother will introduce her fabulous idea to legions of strangers. Seductive, yes, but rarely something that actually happens. The point: Build your own platform. That statement was from the website The […]
New Open Access Archaeology Book
August 19, 2011
This was posted on Digging Digitally and I thought I would share it-
Archaeology Journal Publishing XII
August 1, 2011
It has been about two months since my last archaeology journal publishing post, apologies. Quick recap of Arch Journal Publishing I-XI: I looked at varies metrics of “supposed” journal quality vs. price per journal and/or price per page and found pretty much no correlation between these metrics and prices. To continue with this line of […]
Open Access Archaeology Class
July 7, 2011
Via Cultural Property & Archaeology Law: From Boing Boing: Interested in Egyptian archaeology? This summer, you can virtually sit in on a Michigan State University class taught by professor Ethan Watrall. He set the online class up to be completely open access—the public will be able to view and use all course materials. Open access […]
Crossing the Rubicon, Open Access, and Careers
June 18, 2011
Recently, I presented a paper at a conference and the hosts of the conference were looking to publish all of the papers in a special issue of a journal. Well the hosts managed to get a pretty “prestiges” journal to accept the papers as bulk publication, passing peer review of course. The problem was that […]
OpenAccessArchaeology.org
June 11, 2011
In the last week I have created an Open Access Archaeology search engine. It covers quite a few sites and journals that offer open access publications. It is pretty good but it needs to be tested throughly. So if you are going any research can you stop by, test it out, and give some feedback? […]
Archaeology Open Access Search Engine- Looking for BETA testers
June 9, 2011
I have put together a custom search engine that specifically searches for open access archaeology publications. To be accurate it searches webpages and websites that offer open access publications. Right now, it returns mostly relevant results and 99% open access publications but it could be improved. I am looking for people to BETA test the […]
Author Pays: Can it work in Archaeology?
June 8, 2011
The publisher Pagepress is launching a new open access journal Antiqua. It is open access but it is based off of the concept that the author pays for the open access. Well sort of, there is a deal in which no one has to pay if they submit before the 31st of July, 2011. I […]
Back Issues of Archaeology Journals
May 9, 2011
Yesterday, I posted a list of archaeology journals that were open access. Well I found two more that have been added to the list here. I have also created a list of journals that post many of their back issues online. There is a few year gap between what is new and the free journals […]
Would You Pay $4.84 PER PAGE to read a journal?
April 12, 2011
In addition to the many things I am currently doing, I am writing up/editing a paper for the newest issue of the Assemblage Journal. The topic of the article is journal publishing in archaeology. I do not want to give away all of results before it gets published, but this calculation just blew my mind […]
Share Anthroplogy
March 27, 2011
Great new site that has come up- Share Anthropology http://shareanthropology.tumblr.com/ This is a site that is dedicated to the topic of open access and anthropology. Yet, the site is very focused on just providing articles, websites, blogs, etc. that discuss this topic and nothing more. It’s a sort of news wire for open access anthropology. […]
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