<div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#ff0000">There is a tendency in anthropology—and in the humanities generally—to suggest that open access is a problem of the sciences and engineering</font></b>, and that we are somehow victims of this juggernaut on the other side of our campuses. Aside from being a form of ressentiment, this claim fails to recognize that the financial problem is the same across the disciplines—the larger humanities disciplines (history, literature) are going to have more power than the smaller ones (classics, women’s studies)—and the same is true in the sciences. <b><font color="#ff0000">Making common cause with folks in the sciences and engineering is far more effective for everyone than manning some culture-war barricade that is irrelevant to the larger dynamics of the economy of publishing, research funding, and university revenues generally</font></b>.<div>
<br><a href="http://www.culanth.org/articles/734-beyond-copyright-and-technology-what-open-access">http://www.culanth.org/articles/734-beyond-copyright-and-technology-what-open-access</a></div></div>