Open Access Anthropology

Again from Lorenz of Antropologi.info, he shares with us news of a brand new open access journal titled, Anpere - Anthropological Perspectives on Religion. Swedish anthropologists Pierre Wiktorin and André Möller from Lund University are the editors of the journal. The aim of anpere is,
” to offer a flexible and relevant channel for researches as […]

The journals published by individual sections of the AAA are handled by U.C. Press, which has this to say about open access repositories:
In response to the evolving nature of scholarly exchange and collaboration, University of California Press now allows its authors to post preprints and postprints on authors’ personal websites, on discipline-specific servers of preprints […]

From Lorenz of Anthropologi.info, there’s news that the digital library (MUNIN) of the University in Tromsø in northern Norway has opened access to eight theses on indigenous studies. I comment Norway for making these studies freely available in full text, and hope future digital publishers follow suit. Either check out Lorenz’s blog or the […]

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