American 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.

Why 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.

Sci-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 get them. Sci-Hub is a pirate operation that uses stolen university login credentials to harvest, store, and distribute for free virtually every academic article…

ASA’s letter against the public interest and our values

ASA speaks out against open access again.

Let’s improve the ASA/Sage journal author agreement

I have spoken well of the policy that permits authors to post preprint versions of their papers before submitting them to journals of the American Sociological Association. That means you can get your work out more broadly while it's going through the review process. The rule says: ASA authors may post working versions of their…

Let’s use award incentives to promote open scholarship (at ASA this year!)

A proposal to open the ASA Family Section graduate student paper award.

Paul Amato on reviewing Regnerus

"In retrospect, I understand that providing a review was not a good idea, because one should avoid even the hint of impropriety in matters like this. At the time, however, I simply felt that I was helping the editor and being a good colleague."

Paul Amato, Regnerus postscript

Bottom line: If Amato reviewed the Regnerus paper, he shouldn't have.

The Regnerus study goes to court, trailing briefs

Should the American Sociological Association get involved?