Open Access Anthropology

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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