refusing to support Elsevier

[Leila Monaghan]

Many thanks Alex for the list and to all for the discussion on this,

best, Leila

On , Alexander King <a.king at abdn.ac.uk> wrote:
> Christine makes some excellent points, and I want to point out that  
> members of the AAA should be asking tough questions to our exec board  
> about our association's publishing strategy. Anthrosource has been billed  
> as a great advantage to members, but librarians see it as just another  
> bundle and it is expensive. With all due respect to my anthropological  
> colleagues (most likely not on this list), not all of those AAA journals  
> are relevant, let alone heavily used, by readers at University of  
> Aberdeen.



> -Alex



> On 26 Jan 2012, at 3:49 am, Christine Corcoran wrote:



> > From 2000 to the end of 2008, I managed the publication of fifteen

> > different journals at the University of Chicago Press including

> > Current Anthropology and the International Journal of American

> > Linguistics, and I have many thoughts on this topic. I don't feel able

> > to condense them all at the moment.

> >

> > But, I will say whatever problems there may be with university presses

> > or with any university press in particular, I find those issues are

> > always potential problems in the for-profit publishing world. And

> > since university presses exist to publish important but not

> > traditionally considered commercially viable work, they are always

> > more responsible and responsive publishing partners. Whatever culture

> > may exist between a press and a journal office, it is always more

> > malleable than one with a commercial publisher. Unfortunately

> > societies and journal offices don't always know what all of their

> > options are or what really is negotiable. But these include everything

> > from what sort of expertise copy editors should posses to what price

> > to set for reproducing a single copyrighted article.

> >

> >> ...





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