From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 08:33:34 +0100

Thanks Joe. I accept that I could have missed the point. I know almost
nothing about the arrangement. I also have nothing against university
presses. I was head of journals at OUP once. I do consider however
that handling large journals is not easy for a small university press
to do optimally. I may also surprise Fred Friend posting today that I
would always advocate an OA possibility to a learned society looking
for a new partner and have been advocating this for a decade.

Anthony


On 2 May 2012, at 00:25, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:51:44 -0700
>
> I didn't read it that way, Anthony.  I think the point rather is that
> Anthrosource was with a not-for-profit unit of a university and was
> moved by the society to WileyBlackwell (it may have been before the
> Blackwell acquisition; I'm not sure).  So if someone is complaining
> about Wiley's trading practices, why not protest when the project was
> taken away from the university press?
>
> BTW, Wiley is  great publisher and does a great job.  But that's not
> what's at issue here.  The question is the apparent contradiction
> between declared philosophical positions and actions on the part of
> some society publishers.
>
> Of course, the director of Columbia University Press can speak for
> himself and may inform this list that I have it all wrong!
>
> Joe Esposito
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:07 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:12:05 +0100
>>
>> This is an odd intervention. Is the director of Columbia suggesting
>> (presumably out of collegiate feeling because it will be difficult to get
>> the evidence) that Wiley do a worse job as a publishing partner than
>> University of California press?
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: James Jordan <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:13:49 -0400
>>
>> It's a good question.  I asked it recently of an anthropologist who
>> complained about Wiley's handling of his association's journals.
>> Where were they when their association decided to move the journals
>> from the University of California Press?
>>
>> James D. Jordan
>> President and Director
>> Columbia University Press
>> New York, NY 10023
>> www.cup.columbia.edu
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