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 >> [log in to unmask]