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More on the AnthroSource move to Wiley-Blackwell When I first blogged the news that AnthroSource, the publishing arm of the American Anthropological Association, was moving from the University of California Press to Wiley-Blackwell, it was just a plan. Now it's official. From the Wiley-Blackwell announcement (September 19, 2007):
Comment. In June 2006, the AAA signed a public letter opposing FRPAA without consulting its members and triggered a wave of member protests. When the AnthroSource Steering Committee expressed its support for FRPAA, the AAA disbanded the committee. Nevertheless, many anthropologists hoped that the AAA would convert AnthroSource to OA. Now AAA lays those hopes to rest and will have to explain to members how this move advances anthropology more than OA and why the views of the membership, and even the AnthroSource Steering Committee, were systematically disregarded. Update. Also see the September 19 statement by William Davis and Alan Goodman (respectively, Executive Director and President of the AAA) and Jennifer Howard's story on the Chronicle of Higher Education News blog. Excerpt from Howard:
Update. See the comments on Jennifer Howard's story on the Chronicle of Higher Education News blog. Here's one: No indication that the AAA is concerned about the pricing of its journals, which I am prepared to bet will raise at at least 10% per year over the life of the contract. Let’s be clear about what is going on here the AAA is using a private publisher to extract income from universities through their libraries. The bad news though is that university libraries will not be able to afford these increases. In the end fewer subscriptions will be sold and fewer people will have access to this scholarship. If the AAA really cared about scholarship in anthropology they would be pursuing an open access strategy. |