Comments for Digging Digitally http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog Archaeology, data sharing, digitally enabled research and education Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:30:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Archaeology, Open Access, and the Passing of Aaron Swartz by A roundup: “Aaron Swartz didn’t face prison until Feds jumped on case… « Erkan's Field Diary http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=891&cpage=1#comment-79597 A roundup: “Aaron Swartz didn’t face prison until Feds jumped on case… « Erkan's Field Diary Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:30:30 +0000 http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=891#comment-79597 [...] Archaeology, Open Access, and the Passing of Aaron Swartz [...]

]]> Comment on Fred Limp (SAA President) Responding to Open Access in Archaeology by The Loss of Aaron Swartz, the Need for Open Access, and a Comment on Depression. « Archaeology Fantasies http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=899&cpage=1#comment-79377 The Loss of Aaron Swartz, the Need for Open Access, and a Comment on Depression. « Archaeology Fantasies Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:27:12 +0000 http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=899#comment-79377 [...] Fred Limp (SAA President) Responding to Open Access in Archaeology by Eric Kansa and Fred Limp [...]

]]> Comment on Fred Limp (SAA President) Responding to Open Access in Archaeology by An anthropology roundup. What were your landmark books? « Erkan's Field Diary http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=899&cpage=1#comment-79283 An anthropology roundup. What were your landmark books? « Erkan's Field Diary Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:33:33 +0000 http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=899#comment-79283 [...] Fred Limp (SAA President) Responding to Open Access in Archaeology [...]

]]> Comment on Fred Limp (SAA President) Responding to Open Access in Archaeology by Eric Kansa http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=899&cpage=1#comment-79136 Eric Kansa Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:07:13 +0000 http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=899#comment-79136 Thanks for the comment Terry! I’m glad you noted that about the SHA, and I applaud the SHA for moving in the right direction. I don’t want to pretend that this issue is easy either.

Switching to Open Access models may best be done with pretty large structural shifts in how we fund dissemination. Cathy Davidson of HASTAC has a good discussion of how cost escalations in commercial science publishing hurt the humanities and social sciences (http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2013/01/15/tragedies-scholarly-publishing-2013).

She argues for structural change, and I wholly agree.

]]> Comment on Fred Limp (SAA President) Responding to Open Access in Archaeology by Terry Brock http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=899&cpage=1#comment-79135 Terry Brock Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:50:26 +0000 http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=899#comment-79135 Eric, thanks for the series of posts on this topic, which obviously is critically important. Since you mentioned SHA in a link, I did want to chime in a bit. I was at the conference and in the session Doug discusses, and while the standard trope of “but everyone will leave if we give it away for free” was mentioned, it should also be noted that SHA does provide their journal for free publicly up to 2005 at this exact moment, with the rest on JSTOR except for the past two years. Is it perfect? no. But it is certainly a compromise that is working pretty well.

]]> Comment on Archaeology, Open Access, and the Passing of Aaron Swartz by Eric Kansa http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=891&cpage=1#comment-79005 Eric Kansa Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:16:02 +0000 http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=891#comment-79005 Thanks for the comments all! Fred Limp, President of the SAA kindly wrote me with some reactions also. He gave permission to reproduce them on this, blog which I did in the next post:

http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=899

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]]> Comment on Digital Archaeology and SOPA by ellen http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=832&cpage=1#comment-78986 ellen Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:59:24 +0000 http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=832#comment-78986 The librarian’s name is Rachael Ricker, a private high school librarian in the Bronx, she got a lot of attention with that sign. But believe me, librarians have been marching for a very long time.

]]> Comment on Archaeology, Open Access, and the Passing of Aaron Swartz by Larry Chartrand http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=891&cpage=1#comment-78978 Larry Chartrand Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:48:08 +0000 http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=891#comment-78978 Thanks for this very thoughful commentary. We must remember that one of the reasons why we exist (academics) is to puruse new knowledge that will benefit society. To have such knowledge restricted (for commerical reasons) is contrary to our very purpose as professors, scholars and researchers.

]]> Comment on Archaeology, Open Access, and the Passing of Aaron Swartz by Becky Wragg Sykes http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=891&cpage=1#comment-78931 Becky Wragg Sykes Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:46:29 +0000 http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=891#comment-78931 The astronomical community model of open access to all papers via arxiv should be expanded. Journals apparently accept it because everyone uses it.

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