The new issue of Anthropology Today is out – one of my favorite journals. I used to summarize the most interesting articles here but from now on I’ll no longer be able to do that. The Norwegian University libraries have cancelled their subscriptions as a protest against the publisher’s (Blackwell) “unacceptable conditions and price increases”. I was reminded of that when I tried to download an article a few minutes ago.
This brings us back to our favorite topic Open Access and an disturbing article on Savage Minds on PR- firms hired by the American Anthropological Association to fight open access to scholarship (not related to the Blackwell issue, though, but nevertheless a must-read!)