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Open Access, Institutionalised?: Or, Another Reason Why International Relations Is Failing As An Intellectual Project

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The American Sociological Association (ASA) has announced that it will launch an (as-yet unnamed) open access general sociology journal as soon as possible (this year, maybe next). Its proposed features are a mix of traditional and new: there will be start-up cash and a stipend for Editors, peer-review is to be on the standard, appropriately ‘prestigious’ … Continue reading Open Access, Institutionalised?: Or, Another Reason Why International Relations Is Failing As An Intellectual Project

What Does It Mean To Start An Open Access Journal?

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Following earlier interviews with Editors at Ethics & Global Politics and the newly open Cultural Anthropology, we present yet another insight into how to do open access, this time with Professor Kim Weeden of Cornell, a Deputy Editor of the new open access journal Sociological Science, which launched earlier this year. As the name suggests, … Continue reading What Does It Mean To Start An Open Access Journal?

What Does It Mean To Become An Open Access Journal?

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Following an earlier interview with Eva Erman on editing the open access journal Ethics & Global Politics, another set of enlightening responses on academic publishing. This time with Professor Brad Weiss of the College of William & Mary and President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, which publishes Cultural Anthropology, the premier journal of the American … Continue reading What Does It Mean To Become An Open Access Journal?

What Does It Mean To Edit An Open Access Journal?

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Yet another post on open access, but this time featuring a non-Disorder voice. I recently exchanged emails with Dr Eva Erman of Uppsala University on the possibilities and constraints of open access publishing. Eva is the Chief Editor of Ethics & Global Politics, a fully open journal that not only attracts authors of note in … Continue reading What Does It Mean To Edit An Open Access Journal?

Open Access: A Submission to the Lords Committee

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Two weeks ago the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee announced that it was to hold a short inquiry into the government’s open access policy (a policy which we have previously critiqued at some length). The deadline for submissions to that inquiry is…well, it was last Friday actually. Despite the very short window, we … Continue reading Open Access: A Submission to the Lords Committee

Open Access: HEFCE, REF2020 and the Threat to Academic Freedom

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This is the text of a document prepared by Meera and me on Article Processing Charges as currently understood and the serious risks we think they pose to academic freedom and funding, broadly understood (previous discussed by several contributors to our open access series). It is also available as a pdf, and we encourage academics … Continue reading Open Access: HEFCE, REF2020 and the Threat to Academic Freedom

Death To Open Access! Long Live Open Access!

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A few weeks ago at the Millennium conference, some of us got together to talk about open access and the political economy of knowledge (re)production in our little corner of academia (“us” being Colin Wight, David Mainwaring, Nivi Manchanda, Nathan Coombs, Meera and me). Over the remainder of this week, we’ll be posting those reflections here … Continue reading Death To Open Access! Long Live Open Access!

What We Talked About At ISA: From #occupyirtheory to #OpenIR?

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A write up of my comments at the #occupyirtheory event in San Diego. The event itself was both hope-filled and occasionally frustrating, not least for the small group of walk-outs, apparently ‘political’ ‘scientists’ lacking in any conception of what it actually means to engage in the political (note: this bothered me especially, but was a … Continue reading What We Talked About At ISA: From #occupyirtheory to #OpenIR?