You may be aware that the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
has recently announced that it will soon issue a Request for Proposals
(RFP) to invite potential publishers to bid for the business of
managing the association’s publishing program. The new contract will
begin on January 1, 2018 and will likely run for the next ten years.
Because the AAA is the world’s largest publisher of anthropology
titles (twenty-one journals and Anthropology News), this new
publishing contract will shape the discipline’s public image and
scholarly communications for years to come.
At this critical juncture we must ask: Will AAA publications spend yet
another decade locked within a publisher website where only research
libraries can afford to purchase them? Or can our scholarly work join
the growing body of research that is publicly available and accessible
as a public good?
A few colleagues have put together a concrete, practical, and
financially sustainable way that the AAA can make its publishing
program open-access: a cooperative model of scholarly publishing.
You can read more about the proposal here:
HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory:
http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau5.2.002/2069
Cultural Anthropology:
http://culanth.org/fieldsights/743-why-an-open-access-publishing-cooperative-can-work-a-proposal-for-the-aaa-s-journal-portfolio
Savage Minds:
http://savageminds.org/2015/10/21/what-a-cooperative-proposal-means-for-the-aaa/
The AAA plans to run some focus groups and discussions during its
annual meeting in Denver with which to inform the RFP process. If you
plan to attend the AAA meeting we urge you to read our proposal and
make your voice heard.
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