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this is

Widely Readand respected?

Check.

Open Access?M’eh.

Open Access Scholarly Information Portal

new research

Fresh discoveries

Cool stuff!!

Hey, maybe this is a cure!

holy cow!

Ithaka Faculty Survey, 2009

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!!!

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

It costs us $5,000 to publish an article.

Seriously?

I’m not kidding. You want to pay that much?

Are you kidding me????

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.’”

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, institutionaloverhead, library support - $0.00

Museum Anthropology Review Cost per article: $0.42

…the system we have knownis broken and the librariansat Indiana University want tobe part of the solution ratherThan part of the problem

Sample CEO salaries

American Anth. Assoc. – $307,000American Psych. Assoc. – $609,594American Chemical Society – $936,800CAS - $1,038,800

OCLC - $1,391,783

In contrast ….

Salaries for Internet Archive – Six employees earn $100,000+

All salaries for Wikimedia - $233,060

• Social justice • For all people• Knowledge matters• We are implicated• The truth can set us free• We must serve our ideals

image credits

Paper background – essence of a dreamTorn book – Ninja MFixing the system – Library of CongressPoliticians – Library of CongressMoney – bormann818