Various news outlets in academia are reporting that the American Anthropological Association has set a new policy of providing open access to their research articles. The odd aspect of the decision was the limiting of this to records only more than 35 years old, nothing more recent. Under the guise of protecting the research interests of contemporary scholars, this decision has met with derision in some quarters and I love this quote, from our own Pat Galloway here in the iSchool who described the new policy as ‘just crap’. Couldn’t have said it better myself!
V.M Daniel Regents Professor of Information