Download is that what you want, authors??? Be very afraid!!!

BROKEN
Widely Read
and respected?
Check.
Open Access?
M’eh.
Open Access Scholarly Information Portal
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, institutional
overhead, library support - $0.00
Museum Anthropology Review
Cost per article: $0.42
…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
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
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
image credits
Paper background – essence of a dream
Torn book – Ninja M
Fixing the system – Library of Congress
Politicians – Library of Congress
Money – bormann818