29.1, February 2014
With the February 2014 issue, Cultural Anthropology goes
fully open access. This means that the journal is now freely available
to anyone anywhere who has access to the Internet (rather than just
those who can afford the fees that allow them to get behind the paywall
of a commercial press), thereby returning publishing to the commons,
where academic life begins. We wish to thank all those who have expended
so much time and labor in making the transition possible—former CA
editors Kim and Mike Fortun, our talented and indefatigable former and
present managing editors Ali Kenner and Tim Elfenbein, web consultant
Ryan Schenk, former Society for Cultural Anthropology presidents Danilyn
Rutherford and Brad Weiss, Oona Schmid at the American Anthropological
Association, members of the OA advisory committee Jessica Cattelino,
Chris Kelty, and Jason Jackson, and Paolo Mangiafico and Kevin Smith at
the Duke University Libraries.Open access offers new opportunities for dialogue, scholarship, and communication, and new possibilities for accessing, and being accessible to, the world. We invite you to join us in this exciting new stage of publication, and to share—with friends and colleagues around the world—the news that Cultural Anthropology is now openly accessible to all.
It is fitting that this first OA issue falls when we are publishing the final special issue of a four-year series on the “Futures of Neoliberalism.” Among other things, the open access movement has seen itself as a protest against the neoliberalization of the university, as an attempt to push back against the privatization and corporatization of the intellectual commons. The May issue of Cultural Anthropology will feature a series of articles about open access anthropology.
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