24
BRO
KEN
this is
Widely Readand respected?
Check.
Open Access?M’eh.
Open Access Scholarly Information Portal
new research
Fresh discoveries
Cool stuff!!
Hey, maybe this is a cure!
holy cow!
Ithaka Faculty Survey, 2009
1. “A very effective open access lobby Has been at work …”
Nasty special interests!!!
2. Biomedical publishers now charge authors
is that what you want, authors???Be very afraid!!!
3. Social science article cost twice as much!But anthropologists don’t make twice as much as those scientists.
Yeah, that’s like SO unfair
4. Social scientists cite old articles, so Embargoes should last longer.
decades at least
It costs us $5,000 to publish an article.
Seriously?
I’m not kidding. You want to pay that much?
Are you kidding me????
No kidding! You want free access, it’ll cost ya!!
“it is essential that we formulate a strategy to sustain AAA’s traditional journal publishing role as we engage with a world that expects scholarly content to be ‘free.’”
Producing one AAA journal article @$6,000
• 33.39% – editorial $2003.40• 31.74% – production - $1904.40• 18.96% – distribution - $1,137.60• 13.50% – AAA staff overheads - $810.00• 2.41% – marketing - $144.60
Research, writing, peer review, institutionaloverhead, library support - $0.00
Museum Anthropology Review Cost per article: $0.42
…the system we have knownis broken and the librariansat Indiana University want tobe part of the solution ratherThan part of the problem
Sample CEO salaries
American Anth. Assoc. – $307,000American Psych. Assoc. – $609,594American Chemical Society – $936,800CAS - $1,038,800
OCLC - $1,391,783
In contrast ….
Salaries for Internet Archive – Six employees earn $100,000+
All salaries for Wikimedia - $233,060
• Social justice • For all people• Knowledge matters• We are implicated• The truth can set us free• We must serve our ideals
image credits
Paper background – essence of a dreamTorn book – Ninja MFixing the system – Library of CongressPoliticians – Library of CongressMoney – bormann818
