Open Access Anthropology

(cross-posted from www.jasonbairdjackson.com)
An ambitious gold open access journal publishing effort for folkloristics and neighboring fields (ethnomusicology, tribal studies, regional studies, and performance studies) is underway in India. The National Folklore Support Centre is using Open Journal Systems to host fourteen journals, both new and established. Some have been publishing for some time, others have launched [...]

(Reposted from Savage Minds)
Nat Torkington reports that the RNA Biology journal (published by Nature) requires authors to submit at least one Wikipedia article on their research before they will publish their article. This is partially because the publisher, Nature, has something called the RNA WikiProject which syncs each night with related Wikipedia articles.
I thought this [...]

I’m very happy to hear that Temple University (where I went to graduate school) has decided to make all future dissertations open access!
More info available on Open Access News and Anthropologi.info.