From the editor: Getting what you pay for? Open access and the future of humanities publishing

Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-21

  Stevens, Laura M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

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EID: 84894149999     PISSN: 07327730     EISSN: 19361645     Source Type: Journal    
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References (14)

1. "Open Access," Wikipedia, last modified 13 November 2013, accessed 19 November 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access.
2. Max Planck Gesellschaft, "Berlin Declaration," Open Access, accessed 19 November 2013, http://openaccess.mpg.de/286432/Berlin-Declaration. The other two major declarations are the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which was developed at a conference convened by the Open Society Institute in 2001, and the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, which was composed during a meeting held by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2003.
3. Kathleen Fitzpatrick provides a lucid explanation and brief history of the open access movement in "Giving it Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication," Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 43 (2012), 347-62, especially 348-51. Subsequent references will be cited parenthetically in the text.
4. Jennifer Crewe, "Scholarly Publishing: Why Our Business is Your Business Too," Profession (2004), 25.
5. Tim Krieder, "Slaves of the Internet, Unite!" The New York Times, Sunday Review, 27 October 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/ opinion/sunday/slaves-of-the-internet-unite.html.
6. Fitzpatrick cites Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More (New York: Hyperion, 2006).
7. Fitzpatrick also makes reference here to Stevan Harnad's contributions over email to early discussions of open access, as summarized in Ann Shumelda Okerson and James J. O'Donnell, introduction to Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing, ed. Okerson and O'Donnell (Washington, D. C.: Association of Research Libraries 1995), para. 4, http://www.arl.org/sc/subversive/introduction-2.shtml.
8. On the casualization of academic labor, see Marc Bousquet, How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (New York: New York University Press, 2008).
9. On the rise of impact studies of scholarship, see Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, "The 'Impact Factor' and Selected Issues of Content and Technology in Humanities Scholarship Published Online," Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 42 (2008), 70-77.
10. On the crisis on scholarly publishing in the humanities see Judith Ryan, Idelber Avelar, Jennifer Fleissner, David E. Lashmet, J. Hillis Miller, Karen H. Pike, John Sitter, and Lynne Tatlock, MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Scholarly Publishing, "The Future of Scholarly Publishing," Profession (2002), 172-86;
11. Mary Waltham, "The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations" (The National Humanities Alliance, 2009), accessed 21 November 2013, http://www.nhalliance.org/bm~doc/ hssreport.pdf;
12. and "Journal Identity in the Digital Age: A 2008 CELJ Roundtable," compiled and edited by Bonnie Wheeler, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 42 (2008), 45-88. The contributions to this roundtable are by James J. O'Donnell, Alan Rauch, Sheri Spaine Long, Zepetnek, Martha J. Cutter, and Elizabeth W. Brown.
13. Waltham, "The Future," 5, quoted in Jennifer Howard, "Pricey Cost per Page Hurts Humanities and Social Science Journals," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 September 2009, http://chronicle.com/ article/Pricey-Cost-per-Page-Hurts/48257/.
14. See also Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy (New York: New York University Press, 2011).