Open Access Anthropology

Nature has been tracking down some emails and conversations between several large scientific publishers and a public relations firm. The publishers include Elsevier and Wiley and before you ask, “So what does this have to do with me, an anthropologist?” Let me remind you that the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Journal of Primatology, [...]

Head on over to 3 Quarks Daily, where Bill Hooker just wrapped up a three part trilogy on how open access and open science will change the world: The Future of Science is Open, Part 1: Open Access The Future of Science is Open, Part 2: Open Science The Future of Science is Open, Part [...]

The De Lange Conference, a large well-funded bi-annual conference is focused on “Emerging Libraries” this year, including a number of luminaries from the Open Access world, like Harold Varmus, Brewster Kahle and James Boyle. Registration is cheap and plane fare to Houston is cheap…

(Here’s a call for papers for a promising new journal — please do consider publishing with them!) We have recently started Open Access Research (OAR), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that will enable greater interaction and facilitate a deeper conversation about open access, including topics such as:   open access journals institutional support for open access [...]

In November 2006, Tonga was swept by a wave of civil disorder. One of the casualities of this was the Friendly Islands Bookstore, one of the few places in Nuku’alofa (the capital of Tonga) where you could go to purchase academic books. Enter Michael Evans, a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia [...]