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From: Christopher Kelty <cke
...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [OAA] Green or Gold OA for the AAA?
To: mesmi
...@asu.edu
Mike,
Agreed, the AAA is not going to set up a respository any time soon. I'm not
sure what's up with Manao, except that it runs solely on Alex's free labor
and he's in PNG right now.
If your institution does not have a repository set up, you have a couple of
options.
1. simply post it to your own website
2. check here for another repository: http://roar.eprints.org/?action=browse
3. use SSRN, which is probably the biggest and closest to what anthros do.
I don't like the fact that they allow advertising and that they try to make
you sign up before accessing, but those are aesthetic objections.
Repositories take a lot of work. Dorothea Salo (
http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/) has written extensively about the hidden
labor involved in setting one up and getting it to work well, and most
institutions do not recognize the amount of labor involved. With the
spread of mandates, like Harvard's OA mandate, there is increasingly room to
demand that such repos be adequately funded, but it is slow.
And Green vs. Gold is not an either or. As I suggested, one can organize to
start a new journal at the same time that one self-archives work published
in other places... so yes, do both!
ck
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Mike Smith <mesmi...@asu.edu> wrote:
> As a follower of Steven Harnad, I think it is more feasible to steer
> anthropology and the AAA first toward Green OA (self-archiving), with
> less emphasis on Gold OA (OA journals). Both are important, but Harnad
> argues that Green OA has much greater potential for making a
> difference in access in a reasonable time frame.
> That said, what is the best approach for repositories? Most of our
> universities are not going to set up institutional repositories any
> time soon. The last time I looked at the Mana'o (or is it Mano'a)
> repository for anthropology, it was still in the construction stages,
> quite rudimentary (I tried checking again just now, but the page
> wouldn't load). So what about the AAA? Disciplinary repositories have
> been successful in physics and perhaps other fields. I can't imagine
> the AAA arguing in principle against a disciplinary archive, so
> perhaps that is a good direction to pushs (but, being cynical here
> based on recent AAA polls and C. Kelty's post, it's hard to imagine
> current AAA staff having the incentive and ability to set up something
> like this).
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