Comments on: Sally and Richard Price http://savageminds.org/2008/08/21/sally-and-richard-price/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Sat, 26 May 2012 00:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2008/08/21/sally-and-richard-price/comment-page-1/#comment-479439 Rex Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:35:24 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1313#comment-479439 Awww.... they got rid of the nice earth tones! Awww…. they got rid of the nice earth tones!

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]]> By: Jason Baird Jackson http://savageminds.org/2008/08/21/sally-and-richard-price/comment-page-1/#comment-479434 Jason Baird Jackson Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:52:05 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1313#comment-479434 I liked Richard and Sally Price's older website and I like the new version even more. Beyond adding my own two cents on that point, the question of the article PDFs is crucial. I am an OA advocate and am thus glad that they are making their papers available, but it is not clear from the evidence available that they have the right to do so in the way that they are doing it. I am speaking specifically about any items that were originally published in a AAA publication. Rather than offer my own interpretation of a clouded question, I just want to raise the point. Whatever is going on, making our (AAA) work available is not as simple as going behind a toll barrier and downloading a PDF out of AnthroSource or Wiley InterScience and then uploading that same PDF to a personal website. Everything depends on the author agreements and what they actually do and do not allow. For those who have retained or regained the right to post their work online, I would suggest that depositing it into a subject repository like Mana'o or into an institutional repository (such as those running on DSpace) is preferable for a lot of reasons to just positing it to a personal website. If one has placed a paper in a repository, it will have a durable URL to which a splashy personal website can link. This gets one permanency, standardized metadata, robust searching and a lot more. Instructors can link to the stable URL on syllabi, just as authors can cite the URL in their own references cited. (Thanks to MTBradley for the shout out. My site is just a free WordPress.com instance. Totally easy.) I liked Richard and Sally Price’s older website and I like the new version even more. Beyond adding my own two cents on that point, the question of the article PDFs is crucial. I am an OA advocate and am thus glad that they are making their papers available, but it is not clear from the evidence available that they have the right to do so in the way that they are doing it. I am speaking specifically about any items that were originally published in a AAA publication. Rather than offer my own interpretation of a clouded question, I just want to raise the point.

Whatever is going on, making our (AAA) work available is not as simple as going behind a toll barrier and downloading a PDF out of AnthroSource or Wiley InterScience and then uploading that same PDF to a personal website. Everything depends on the author agreements and what they actually do and do not allow.

For those who have retained or regained the right to post their work online, I would suggest that depositing it into a subject repository like Mana’o or into an institutional repository (such as those running on DSpace) is preferable for a lot of reasons to just positing it to a personal website. If one has placed a paper in a repository, it will have a durable URL to which a splashy personal website can link. This gets one permanency, standardized metadata, robust searching and a lot more. Instructors can link to the stable URL on syllabi, just as authors can cite the URL in their own references cited.

(Thanks to MTBradley for the shout out. My site is just a free WordPress.com instance. Totally easy.)

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]]> By: Michael E. Smith http://savageminds.org/2008/08/21/sally-and-richard-price/comment-page-1/#comment-479412 Michael E. Smith Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:01:36 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1313#comment-479412 Well, the Prices sure made my earlier comment obsolete rather quickly! They now have a bunch of pdfs of their papers posted prominently on their blog site. This is great news. Now if the rest of our colleagues would just follow suit! Well, the Prices sure made my earlier comment obsolete rather quickly! They now have a bunch of pdfs of their papers posted prominently on their blog site. This is great news. Now if the rest of our colleagues would just follow suit!

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]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2008/08/21/sally-and-richard-price/comment-page-1/#comment-479179 Rex Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:52:19 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1313#comment-479179 Yes esp. for some of the older volumes that might be hard to find or out of print, they should definitely PDFify them and turn them loose. Yes esp. for some of the older volumes that might be hard to find or out of print, they should definitely PDFify them and turn them loose.

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]]> By: MTBradley http://savageminds.org/2008/08/21/sally-and-richard-price/comment-page-1/#comment-479038 MTBradley Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:11:16 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1313#comment-479038 Webb Keane's is pretty good. It's not very ornate but it is informative: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/webbkeane/home If I may also promote the work of two of my own instructors, Jason Jackson (http://jasonbairdjackson.com/) and Eduardo Brondizio (http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/brondizio.html) both take the time to maintain helpful webpages. Webb Keane’s is pretty good. It’s not very ornate but it is informative: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/webbkeane/home

If I may also promote the work of two of my own instructors, Jason Jackson (http://jasonbairdjackson.com/) and Eduardo Brondizio (http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/brondizio.html) both take the time to maintain helpful webpages.

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]]> By: L.L. Wynn http://savageminds.org/2008/08/21/sally-and-richard-price/comment-page-1/#comment-478936 L.L. Wynn Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:05:38 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1313#comment-478936 Hear hear, Enigma Variations is fantastic. It took me a while to get into it but once I did it was compelling. And the design of it is beautiful: at the bottom of every page is a picture of some objet d'art of the type that they write about both fictionally and anthropologically. Hear hear, Enigma Variations is fantastic. It took me a while to get into it but once I did it was compelling. And the design of it is beautiful: at the bottom of every page is a picture of some objet d’art of the type that they write about both fictionally and anthropologically.

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]]> By: Michael E. Smith http://savageminds.org/2008/08/21/sally-and-richard-price/comment-page-1/#comment-478767 Michael E. Smith Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:47:51 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1313#comment-478767 Yes, the Prices do have a great website. Other than making visitors like me extremely jealous of their erudition, their productivity, and their lifestyle, it does have a significant negative feature: It lacks downloadable copies of their articles. I pointed this out to Sally, who said they wanted to add this feature. But until one can get copies of their articles, its value as a scholarly website will remain somewhat limited. That said, I did get some useful citations from their CVs, and their website did stimulate me to read their novel, Enigma Variations, an outstanding (fascinating, excellent, wonderful) work. So its a great website but it still needs those pdfs. Yes, the Prices do have a great website. Other than making visitors like me extremely jealous of their erudition, their productivity, and their lifestyle, it does have a significant negative feature: It lacks downloadable copies of their articles. I pointed this out to Sally, who said they wanted to add this feature. But until one can get copies of their articles, its value as a scholarly website will remain somewhat limited. That said, I did get some useful citations from their CVs, and their website did stimulate me to read their novel, Enigma Variations, an outstanding (fascinating, excellent, wonderful) work.
So its a great website but it still needs those pdfs.

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