More on anthropologists for FRPAA

Kambiz Kamrani, AnthroSource Steering Committee dissents from the AAA and endorses FRPAA, Anthropology.net, October 7, 2006.  Excerpt:

On June 12th this year all hell broke loose when the American Anthropological Association (AAA) decided to oppose the FRPAA (Federal Research Public Access Act). It generated lots of fervor amongst the blogosphere, specifically amongst me, afarensis, and Savage Minds....

To many of you this may seem like bureaucratic bickering and power struggles of an academic elite, and to some extent it is. How it affects you, as I've outlined before, is that our tax payer money that goes towards research, and cultural resource management is effectively being funnelled into the private pockets. When the AAA opposed compliance to open access to federally funded research, they in effect were taking all the artifacts and manuscripts of our collective knowledge and keeping it to themselves.