Open Access Anthropology

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 it provoked some interesting comments, full of links worth mentioning. They range from commercial subscription sites, like Safari Books Online, which is what provoked the discussion in the first place, to the radical fringes of the Open Access movement - Guerilla Open Access. Here are some of the links, please feel free to suggest others:

• Film Studies for Free (free)
• The AMICA Library of Art Museum Images (free)
• Oxford Scholarship Online (subscription)
• Questia (subscription)
• Online Papers on Consciousness (free)
• RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) (free)
• The Online Books Page (free) [Glad to see this is still around!]

UPDATE: Google just announced that it will be offering libraries subscription access to out-of-print (but still under copyright) books which it has scanned.

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