Abstract

Why an open access publishing cooperative can work

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  • Our cooperative model for scholarly publishing is designed for this new world

  • Some of the most exciting and innovative developments in the publishing world reflect the spread of this spirit to scholarly communication: Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory and Hau Books, the University of California Press’ Collabra, the Open Library of the Humanities, Knowledge Unlatched and the Public Knowledge Project have all set out to work in cooperative partnership with a variety of stakeholders

  • Our proposal builds on the on-going work of two recent open access datagathering initiatives and modeling exercises that have anthropology at their center: (i) LIBRARIA is a partnership of anthropology and STS learned societies and journals, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition vii

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Introduction

Designed for the AAA’s publishing and organizational requirements, it seeks to build a robust and sustainable multi-stakeholder ecology of open access scholarly communications involving libraries, funding agencies, and infrastructure providers. Some of the most exciting and innovative developments in the publishing world reflect the spread of this spirit to scholarly communication: Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory and Hau Books, the University of California Press’ Collabra, the Open Library of the Humanities, Knowledge Unlatched and the Public Knowledge Project have all set out to work in cooperative partnership with a variety of stakeholders (libraries, editors, funding agencies, universities).

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