Open Access Anthropology

Just a quick note to announce the publication of the fourth issue of Museum Anthropology Review (volume 2, number 2). Find it here. Thanks to everyone who contributed to it.

John Charlot is not exactly an anthropologist — he is a professor of religion at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Throughout the course of his career he has published extensively on Hawai’ian history and religion, as well as other diverse topics such Samoan literature and Vietnamese religion.
Charlot has now provided a massive list of [...]

Recently John Holbo at Crooked Timber posted a thought piece about how nice it would be to have “JSTOR for books.” Of course, we here at OAA would like everything to be fully Open Access, unlike the JSTOR model adopted for most of the AAA publications. But the reason I mention Holbo’s post is that [...]

Well the bad news is that the OAA blog totally failed to synch up with Open Access Day. The good news is that every day is open access day here at OAAA. In honor of OAD I’m hoping to turn over a new leaf and add a new feature to this blog — I’ll begin [...]

As reported on Open Access News, the AAA has announced reciept of a $50,000 grant from Mellon to fund study of the implications of OA for society publishers in the humanities and social sciences.  Find the press release here (at the AAA website) but note also Peter Suber’s comments, here.
For those who cannot get enough [...]

(cross posted from Savage Minds)
I think the story of the day is clearly the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) decision to release some of its content open access (OA). And since this is my blog rather than leave my thoughts about the decision as a comment to his entry I thought I’d give my opinions an [...]

The following is a press release from the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Find it online here.

AAA Creates “Open Access” to Anthropological Research
In a groundbreaking move aimed at facilitating greater access for the global social science and anthropological communities to 86 years of classic, historic research articles, the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association announced [...]