Open Access Anthropology

Well the bad news is that the OAA blog totally failed to synch up with Open Access Day. The good news is that every day is open access day here at OAAA. In honor of OAD I’m hoping to turn over a new leaf and add a new feature to this blog — I’ll begin [...]

As reported on Open Access News, the AAA has announced reciept of a $50,000 grant from Mellon to fund study of the implications of OA for society publishers in the humanities and social sciences.  Find the press release here (at the AAA website) but note also Peter Suber’s comments, here.
For those who cannot get enough [...]

The following is a press release from the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Find it online here.

AAA Creates “Open Access” to Anthropological Research
In a groundbreaking move aimed at facilitating greater access for the global social science and anthropological communities to 86 years of classic, historic research articles, the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association announced [...]

Last May a correspondent who was understandably frustrated by the lack of a clear submissions path for this blog wrote this comment to the post titled “Kim Christen on Author Agreements and Nuanced Open Access.”
This is NOT a comment on this post, but I can’t find any other way to contact the authors of this [...]

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 [...]