Open Access Anthropology

While nodding in the direction of the AAA publication program of which I am a part, I have danced around the question of placing publisher produced PDFs (final, typeset versions of articles, etc.) in subject/institutional repositories and on personal websites on a number of occasions, most recently in a comment on SavageMinds related to articles [...]

Last May a correspondent who was understandably frustrated by the lack of a clear submissions path for this blog wrote this comment to the post titled “Kim Christen on Author Agreements and Nuanced Open Access.”
This is NOT a comment on this post, but I can’t find any other way to contact the authors of this [...]

Get ready — Open Access Day is October 14. You can learn more about what’s planned or read the full press release.

While my university (Indiana University) now has a robust institutional repository (IUScholarWorks: Repository), it is also the home to an important subject repository called The Digital Library of the Commons. When these matters were new to me (in late 2004) I posted my introductory remarks from a symposium that I had organized (Contesting Culture as [...]