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• Issues of transparency

Introduction

Methods

Open Scholarship, the Final Frontier : Assessing the Openness of Anthropology JournalsMelody Dale / Nickoal Eichmann / Sheeji Kathuria / Mary Ann Jones Mississippi State University Libraries / lib.msstate.edu / @msu_libraries

JOURNAL SELECTION• Created a master spreadsheet of 357 journal titles in the field.

• American Anthropological Association• World Council of Anthropological Associations• Journal Citation Reports• SCImago Journal Reports

• Excluded ceased titles and book series, resulting in 309 titles for openness evaluation

JOURNAL CODING• Four coders were assigned a unique set of titles that comprised 25% of the

masterlist to review independently• Coders focused on levels of open access of final published papers, i.e.

publication options and restriction, by evaluating information on journals’ websites

• After an initial evaluation of their respective sample, the we developed a coding scheme that included six levels of openness {see figure 1}

• Two rounds of coding were conducted with the coding scheme, with each coder assigned a unique range of titles for each round.

Fig 1. Coding Scheme: Levels of Openness

Code Descript ion Explanation0 nontransparent information on publishing options is not available or apparent1 closed subscription journal; no obvious OA option2 open option subscription / hybrid journal [not fully OA]; author pay APC for OA option3 open with APC entire journal is free to read; authors pay APC; no embargo4 open with embargo entire journal is free to read; no APC; embargo period5 open free to read; free to publish OA [no APC nor embargo]

In 2008, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) announced its publishing apparatus move from the University of California Press to Wiley-Blackwell, causing increased subscription prices of some of its journals. Then, in 2012, the then-chief editor of American Anthropologist, Tom Boellstorff, encouraged future and current members of AAA to start laying the groundwork for an open access culture for the society.

Seeing this trend, we sought to examine the extent of openness in anthropology scholarship by creating a masterlist of anthropology-related journals. We hope this information and openness matrix will help facilitate researchers in choosing open access publishing avenues, as well as provide a tool for librarians consulting with anthropologists who are interested in open scholarship.

Concentration & Distribution of 3-5s

• Use JOI coding prescribed in Vandegrift & Bowley (2014) for full assessment of Open Access vis-a-vis the PLoS/SPARC “How Open Is It?” spectrum, which includes scales of openness for additional factors.

• Copyrights and 5s• Cross-reference 3-5s in DOAJ• Code journals by subdisciplines of anthropology

Future ResearchBoellstorff, T. (2012), Why the AAA needs gold open access. American Anthropologist, 114: 389–393.

doi:10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01440.Jackson, J. B., & Anderson, R. (2014). Anthropology and Open Access. Cultural Anthropology, 29(2),

236–263. doi.org/10.14506/ca29.2.04Malenfant, K. J. (2010). Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication: A Case Study of

Engaging Liaison Librarians for Outreach to Faculty. College & Research Libraries, 71(1), 63–76. doi.org/10.5860/crl.71.1.63

Vandegrift, M., & Bowley, C. (2014). Librarian, Heal Thyself: A Scholarly Communication Analysis of LIS Journals. In the Library with the Lead Pipe. inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2014/healthyself/

References

“There is a fundamental contradiction between the

often-repeated goal of making anthropology more public and

relevant on the one hand and the lack of open access on the other

hand.” (Boellstorff, 2012)

Percentage of Subscriptionand Open Access Journals