Open Access Anthropology

I am teaching a week on Homer and ‘verbal art’ in one of my classes. I am not a Homer scholar and asked a friend in classics what they might recommend I read to present students the state of the art on oral tradition. The answer, not surprisingly, is Oral Tradition, a great open access […]

Over the next couple of months I’d like to make this blog a place to learn not only about OA issues in Anthropology, but about open access texts in general. How better to demonstrate the importance of OA than to showcase all the great OA work that is being Done?
In this spirit I want to […]

Please check out an editorial piece published in the open access journal, PLoS Biology about openness and how it is in the best interest of science and the public it serves. The title of the editorial is, “Open Access to Research Is in the Public Interest” and here’s an excerpt to wet your appetite,
“For those […]