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BROKEN this is
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Widely Read and respected? Check. Open Access? M’eh.
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Open Access Scholarly Information Portal
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new research Fresh discoveries Cool stuff!! Hey, maybe this is a cure! holy cow!
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Ithaka Faculty Survey, 2009
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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!!!
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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
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It costs us $5,000 to publish an article. Seriously? I’m not kidding. You want to pay that much? Are you kidding me????
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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.’”
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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, institutional overhead, library support - $0.00
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Museum Anthropology Review Cost per article: $0.42
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…the system we have known is broken and the librarians at Indiana University want to be part of the solution rather Than part of the problem
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Sample CEO salaries American Anth. Assoc. – $307,000 American Psych. Assoc. – $609,594 American Chemical Society – $936,800 CAS - $1,038,800 OCLC - $1,391,783
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In contrast …. Salaries for Internet Archive – Six employees earn $100,000+ All salaries for Wikimedia - $233,060
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Social justice For all people Knowledge matters We are implicated The truth can set us free We must serve our ideals
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image credits Paper background – essence of a dreamessence of a dream Torn book – Ninja MNinja M Fixing the system – Library of CongressLibrary of Congress Politicians – Library of CongressLibrary of Congress Money – bormann818bormann818
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