Monthly Archives: February 2008

Extinction Timeline

By Ray Watkins | Published: February 29, 2008
There are hundreds of scholarly journals published online, plenty of them free. But what makes Museum Anthropology Review’s launch notable is that it is being led by the same editor as the traditional journal, Museum Anthropology, using the exact same peer review system. For years, the criticism of the free, online model has been that it would be impossible for it to replicate the quality control offered by traditional publishing. When online journal publishers have boasted of their quality control, print loyalists have said, in effect, “well maybe it’s good, but it can’t be as good as what we’re doing.” To this subjective criticism, open access advocates can now point to someone who knows exactly what the standards are at both...
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Like Hope

By Ray Watkins | Published: February 27, 2008
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