Open Access Anthropology

Its a small matter in a sea of broader OAA news, but I am pleased to note (as the journal’s editor) that the spring 2008 issue of Museum Anthropology Review is now available. It can be found online at http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/mar.
Supporters of OA publishing can help the cause by “registering” with the journal.  This is free […]

While my colleagues are busy with other duties, I fear over-discussing folklore matters here at Open Access Anthropology. Thus, I will make this a quick post to simply note (as the journal’s faculty advisor) that the editors of Folklore Forum have just published a new issue focused on the “Folklore of East Asia.” The issue, […]

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

I’m happy to announce version 1.0 of our Creative Commons licensed poster promoting self-archiving among anthropologists. Feel free to remix and reuse as you see fit - and share those remixes with us. (You can always download the latest version of the PDF and the original Apple Pages document here.)
This document is meant to […]

A petition in support of FRPAA. It was the AAA’s signing of a letter opposing FRPAA that led to the founding of Open Access Anthropology.
This petition builds on the 24,000+ signatures collected from around the world in support of free and open access to European research and for the recommendations proposed in the EU’s ‘Study […]

I wanted to share news with you that the a valuable, but hard to find, old anthropology journal publication is now available online in an open access. Kudos to Museum Anthropology for sharing this with us.
The Folklore and Folk Music Archivist was diligently put up by the people over at the the Archives of […]

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…

Again from Lorenz of Antropologi.info, he shares with us news of a brand new open access journal titled, Anpere - Anthropological Perspectives on Religion. Swedish anthropologists Pierre Wiktorin and André Möller from Lund University are the editors of the journal. The aim of anpere is,
” to offer a flexible and relevant channel for researches as […]

From Lorenz of Anthropologi.info, there’s news that the digital library (MUNIN) of the University in Tromsø in northern Norway has opened access to eight theses on indigenous studies. I comment Norway for making these studies freely available in full text, and hope future digital publishers follow suit. Either check out Lorenz’s blog or the […]

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