Open Access Anthropology

I recently wrote a piece for Anthropology News which mentioned among other things that regardless of the AAA’s position, official or unofficial, about Open Access, it’s nonetheless happening in all kinds of ways. Now it’s happening in one more way that the AAA will have to deal with. Viz. Harvard’s recent announcement that […]

Harvard Faculty, led by Robert Darnton, have passed a mandate that all research publications must be made open access. More from Peter Suber’s blog

In response to a request from Jason Cross, anthropologist and lawyer in training at Duke University, I’ve been examining more carefully the available open access resources in and around anthropology. The aim is twofold. First I simply want to draw attention to how much action there has already been in making research open access, […]

The De Lange Conference, a large well-funded bi-annual conference is focused on “Emerging Libraries” this year, including a number of luminaries from the Open Access world, like Harold Varmus, Brewster Kahle and James Boyle. Registration is cheap and plane fare to Houston is cheap…

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My love/hate relationship with the NYT Magazine grows ever stronger with the publication of a totally fascinating story of the intelligence community’s attempt to take advantage of the “wisdom of crowds”–albeit crowds of the secretive, martini-swilling, karate-chopping and debonaire kind, viz. “open source spying.”[1] It’s a great article about the […]