Open Access Anthropology

While much of its blog work actually takes place on Savage Minds and elsewhere, I have a sense that OA advocates interested in what is happening in anthropology may occasionally check in here or have an RSS feed here. For such folks, I can note briefly the results of the recent Savage Minds OA awards, [...]

For many anthropologists who study the Pacific, the Journal of the Polynesian Society (or the JPS as its fondly known) is considered the ultimate periodical. Over 100 years old, it has published a wealth of data on Pacific island societies in fields as diverse as archaeology, history, folklore, linguistics… in fact the JPS has been [...]

Many professors have a web presence these days, but few are as professional looking as Clarence Gravlee’s. It features a clean — almost slick — design. His publications page features open access preprints and postprints along with abstracts, metadata, links to google scholar, and a shortcut to post his work to your citeulike library, so [...]

The Social Science Research Council is a funder with a long history of supporting anthropological research, and it has done a great job embracing the web by including blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, and tons of great, open content on its website. While the SSRC helps publish many volumes that come out of research that it [...]