Comments on: What a cooperative proposal means for the AAA

By: An open access publishing cooperative for anthropology? by Eugene Raikhel - Bioethics Research Library

Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:47:03 +0000

[…] publishing cooperative has stirred up a considerable amount of conversation on social media and on anthropology blogs. To find out more about the proposal, I got in touch with and posed a few questions to two of its […]

By: Are there alternatives to traditional academic publishing models ? #OA | Allegra

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 07:53:45 +0000

[…] Similar debates are taking place in the United States as the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the world’s largest publisher of anthropological journals, finds itself at a turning point in the management of its publishing program. From January 1, 2018 on, a new publisher will be in charge of this crucial task shaping the next 10 years of anthropological publishing and the discipline’s global representation. Now is therefore a critical time to discuss and consider ways for the AAA to actively participate in the open science movement and make its publishing program open access (check out Rex’s post on Savage Minds: “What a cooperative proposal means for the AAA”) […]

By: Rex

Rex — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:57:54 +0000

I don’t see why we need to bother with an RFP when this could all simply be solved with an iron cage match between Ed and Alberto. Perhaps the AAA could plow some of its profits from Wiley back into pyrotechnics, or perhaps a solid gold championship belt.

By: Open Access and magical thinking | UPRIVER Home

Open Access and magical thinking | UPRIVER Home — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:49:59 +0000

[…] Open Access Week, Savage Minds (/2015/10/21/what-a-cooperative-proposal-means-for-the-aaa/) is hammering the AAA again for failing to fall into step with OA dreamers. As my original blog […]

By: Alberto Corsin Jimenez

Alberto Corsin Jimenez — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:08:52 +0000

Ed, for the sake of clarity, our text is NOT about presenting the PKP / SPARC “consortium” as a viable alternative publishing partner for AAA. Not sure how you came to read the article in that light. Ours is an invitation to AAA to join us in modelling an alternative publishing scenario, where publishers, AAA, and libraries work together.

By: Ed Liebow

Ed Liebow — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:38:33 +0000

As we have recently discussed (http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2015/09/23/aaas-publishing-partnership/), AAA is planning to issue a request for proposals to qualified publishers, rather than simply renewing our W-B partnership. We will make sure the Public Knowledge Project / Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is aware of this bidding opportunity. If this consortium chooses to respond, I am sure that their proposal will be considered carefully, along with other proposals we receive.