Rooting for labor against management at the AAA

Dorothea Salo, Rah-rah OAA! Caveat Lector, November 8, 2006.  Excerpt:

I knew about the uproar in the American Anthropological Association over FRPAA, of course....The online-publishing arm [AnthroSource, disbanded by the AAA for supporting FRPAA] isn't taking this lying down. Oh, no. There's an energetic blog. There's a wiki. There's T-shirts. There's talk of a session on open access at the AAA's national conference --now that's cojones for you.

I love these folks. They rock. They are my shiny new heroes. I could almost join ALA again just to pull stunts like this. (Almost.) The problem with open access is that we don't have a glitzy swanky award ceremony to invite these people to and give them little statues.

I'm working on my presentation for this ... and I've already stashed AAA in there (along with Stephen Breckler of the APA) as examples of how you! too! can shoot your society in the collective foot by trying to protect your journal revenue at whatever cost to your society's membership and its public image....My money's on the OAA against the AAA, all the way. Go heroes go!