InsideHigherEd.com reports that American Anthropology Association is making digital material free, if you can wait 35 years for the latest bits.

The American Anthropological Association [is making] “a groundbreaking move” that would provide “greater access for the global social science and anthropological communities to 86 years of classic, historic research articles.” The problem, critics say, is that the emphasis should have been on the word “historic,” because those 86 years worth of articles aren’t the most recent 86 years. Rather the association will apply its new policy for its flagship journal, American Anthropologist, only 35 years after material was published. The association has created open access to the scholarship of the ’50s and ’60s.

Kinda dulls the notions of being on the cutting edge of things.

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