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I, for One, Welcome Our New Archaeology Publishing Overlords
In June the Archaeology publishing world was rocked by a very significant event, but no one actually noticed it. What am I talking about? Taylor-Francis Group, itself part of a larger company, has bought out Maney. You can read the press release here. What does this mean and why should you care? What does this mean? First […]
In Open Access Publishing There Are No Free Lunches….. but it is really really cheap.
October 23, 2014
In my last post, I mentioned that not all Open Access publishing involves authors paying $2,000. In fact, many journals neither charge the authors or readers and if they do some will waive fees. This led to this very thoughtful comment from Anders- “Excellent that there are OA publishers that do not charge the authors […]
Open Access Does NOT equal You, the Author, Paying
October 20, 2014
Open Access hurts young scholars, people from poor countries, people not working in Universities, and those in poor disciplines, like Archaeology, etc. etc. etc. because they can’t afford paying $2,000, $3,000, $10,000 to get published in OA publications. I have my suspicions about how this rumor got started. Critics of Open Access, like Jeffrey Beall, mention […]
Internet Archaeology is going Open Access and you can win a prize- #iaopen
August 27, 2014
Internet Archaeology was the first Open Access Archaeology journal when it was launched back in 1996. It then took a brief detour into paywall publishing to pay the bills. But, now it is heading back to being Open Access i.e. free to read. In celebration of this fact Judith is having a neat little contest on […]
Schrodinger’s Journals- You can’t both “publish” and publish at the same time
February 10, 2014
Have you ever heard of Schrondinger’s Cat? It is a paradox in which a cat can neither be alive nor dead at the same time. The concept has to do with physics (clicking on the link will take you to a wiki article which will explain it). Essentially, the argument is that in certain cases […]
Is It Open Access If No One Can Find It? The loss of 100,000+ Archaeology & History Articles
November 7, 2013
Here is a question for you, if I put something up on the internet for free but no one can find it have I actually done anything? A little background story to how I came to this question. Over the last couple of weeks I have been running some analysis for the Society of Antiquaries […]
Archaeologists honored/honoured by Whitehouse
June 22, 2013
It is not everyday that the Whitehouse honors/honours an archaeologists so if you have a minute to spare check out the Whitehouse release on Eric Kansa and Open Context. Eric has been doing some amazing work on Open Data and Open Access. Hmmmmm. It seems if more archaeologists want to get their work recognized Open […]
Good News for Open Access
March 11, 2013
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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