Publishing Archaeology

Academia.edu has been getting a lot of negative press in the scholarly community. I see some of this on Twitter, and I've been sent some...

I recently received  a request from a journal editor (a friend) to remove a pdf of an article of mine published in that journal from my...

This coming week is "Open Access Week". Check out the central website, called Open access week . The promise and importance of o...

  The shit is now hitting the fan in the matter of faculty posting their articles on university websites. My colleagues and I have just g...

I received an e-mail from the White House yesterday. No, it wasn't Michelle Obama chatting about Pac-12 Men's Basketball (her brot...

I missed Open Access Week last week, but here is a great video on OA from Jorge Cham (of PhD comix (Piled Higher and Deeper). It is a bit li...

The outoing editor of American Anthropologist, Tom Boellstorff, has published an eloquent plea for the American Anthropological Association ...

Check out the nice piece in The Guardian today, "The parable of the farmers and the teleporting duplicator" by Mike Taylor in The...

Check out Daniel Lende's post on Neuroanthopology, "American Anthropological Association takes public stand against open access. ...

The Research Works Act, H.R. 3699, is a bill that would make it illegal for researchers to post their own publications on the internet for p...

This allegory is from "Time for academics to withdraw free labor", on Dorothy Bishop's BishopBlog: Jack is a sheep farmer...

As a follow-up to my post on Jeffrey' Beall's list of "predatory open access journals" ( see my previous post on this ) (B...

I just found a nice post, " Beall's list of Predatory, Open Access Journals ." This is the definition given: Predat...