Amend your ASA/Sage author agreement!
This is a followup to a previous post, and contains some duplication. I have spoken well of the policy that permits authors to post preprint versions of their papers before submitting them to journals...
View ArticleProposal for ASA to adopt TOP Guidelines and Open Science Badges
Draft of the proposal now open for review and comment. Continue reading →
View ArticleTwo talks on public sociology (with audio)
I gave two talks at the American Sociological Meetings in New York City this week. I recorded them and removed some of the ums for you here. They’re each less than 11 minutes. The first was in a...
View ArticleASA’s letter against the public interest and our values
ASA speaks out against open access again. Continue reading →
View ArticleSci-Hub users cost ASA journals thousands of downloads, and that’s OK
UPDATED to include Sci-Hub data from six months: September 2015–February 2016, and correcting a coding error that inflated download counts. Well, they might not have lost the downloads, but they didn’t...
View ArticleSociologist, scientist? Toward transparency, accountability, and a sharing...
Whether or not sociology is science, we should have transparency, accountability, and a sharing culture in our work. This makes our work better, and also maybe increases our legitimacy in public.
View ArticleThe American Sociological Association is collapsing and its organization is a...
I was elected to improve ASA and I failed.
View ArticleWhy I’m leaving the American Sociological Association
Maybe people declining to fund ASA's dysfunction with their membership dues -- while taking our efforts to develop and promote sociology outside the association -- is the best we can do.
View ArticleAmerican Sociological Association section memberships, 2002-2022
Inequality is increasingly at the core of the ASA.
View ArticleAmerican Sociological Association, in absentia but not silent on open science
ASA is fundamentally, strongly, consistently, organizationally, against the crowning achievement of Nelson's work at OSTP: the Nelson Memo.
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