Open Access Anthropology

(cross posted from Savage Minds)
Recently Anthropologi.info blogged a new anthropology site, American Ethnography. American Ethnography is a very pretty site with monthly thematic collections of articles from AAA journals. My initial response was: “wow, how happy will the AAA be to see entire articles they are selling for money on AnthroSource being reproduced on the […]

It is with great pleasure that I request submissions for MANAO—an Open Access repository for anthropology sponsored by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. In Hawai’ian “mana’o” means thoughts, ideas, knowledge, or opinions—when making decisions together people in Hawai’i often ask for each other’s mana’o. The Mana’o project combines anthropology’s […]

IHE is running a piece entitled Ronald Regan vs. The University Press which provides a nice overview of the problems facing university presses today. One of his key points is that scholarly publishing produces a public good, one that is by its very nature not designed to be or likely to be profitable. […]

(cross posted from Savage Minds )
While the news has not been made official yet, many of us have already heard unofficially that AnthroSource is dropping its contract with University of California Press and moving to Wiley-Blackwell. We don’t know much about the deal so far, but at this point a couple of obvious things jump […]

(this has been crossposted from Savage Minds)
The latest issue of Anthropology News is out and features an op-ed by Alex Golub (i.e. “me” — this blog doesn’t seem to attribute entries to particular authors) on open access publishing and the AAA (you can read the full text of the piece here). Actually that is not […]

I am teaching a week on Homer and ‘verbal art’ in one of my classes. I am not a Homer scholar and asked a friend in classics what they might recommend I read to present students the state of the art on oral tradition. The answer, not surprisingly, is Oral Tradition, a great open access […]

Over the next couple of months I’d like to make this blog a place to learn not only about OA issues in Anthropology, but about open access texts in general. How better to demonstrate the importance of OA than to showcase all the great OA work that is being Done?
In this spirit I want to […]

(Here’s a call for papers for a promising new journal — please do consider publishing with them!)
We have recently started Open Access Research (OAR), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that will enable greater interaction and facilitate a deeper conversation about open access, including topics such as:
 

open access journals

institutional support for open access

open access publishing services […]

In November 2006, Tonga was swept by a wave of civil disorder. One of the casualities of this was the Friendly Islands Bookstore, one of the few places in Nuku’alofa (the capital of Tonga) where you could go to purchase academic books.
Enter Michael Evans, a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. […]

Online Journalism Review (from the Annenberg Center For Communications) is running an long and interesting piece today on the top mistakes made by new online publishers . The author, Robert Niles, if bully on the possibility of making money by publishing online. However, he points out that some of mistakes that people make when going […]