[open-archaeology] World Archaeology special issue

[Ant Beck]

On 05/12/12 18:06, Jessica Ogden wrote:
> +1 from me too! Many congrats to everyone on the publication.
>
> I'm looking forward to getting past the paywall and reading everyone's 
> contributions to this very important, ongoing discussion.
Me too. I'm an author and at an academic institution that does not 
subscribe to World Archaeology. The lack of open access, as Steko notes, 
was a major point of conversation.
>
> Best,
> Jess x
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Ant Beck <ant.beck at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ant.beck at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     +1 from me :-)
>
>     A
>
>     On 05/12/12 16:40, Stefano Costa wrote:
>
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>         Dear all,
>         as some of you may already know the current issue of World
>         Archaeology
>         is a special issue, edited by Mark Lake, dedicated to "Open
>         Archaeology":
>
>         http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwar20/44/4
>
>         Most papers deal with open data, its creation, dissemination
>         and use.
>         I have had a chance to read preliminary versions of some
>         papers and it
>         is truly a state-of-the-art discussion of the potential,
>         problems and
>         established good practice in this field. As Mark puts it in the
>         introduction to the volume, there has been a tendency for
>         literature
>         about open [data|access|source software] in archaeology to be
>         confined
>         to the realm of "archaeological computing" and it is only
>         rarely that
>         mainstream archaeology has a chance to learn about the
>         ground-breaking
>         developments we are collectively making. In this sense, the
>         value of
>         this work is going to be reflected also by the impact it will
>         have on
>         future archaeological work, globally.
>
>         Some of the authors have expressed their discontent (or rather
>         they
>         are doing it right now as I write, in the twittersphere) for the
>         contradiction of a volume on "open archaeology" that is not itself
>         open (i.e. Open Access). Possibly some or all of the papers
>         could be
>         collected in pre-print form and re-published at our blog on
>         the OKFN
>         website. We will post any updates here.
>
>         Congratulations again to all the authors!
>
>         Ciao
>         Stefano
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