Open Access Anthropology

While nodding in the direction of the AAA publication program of which I am a part, I have danced around the question of placing publisher produced PDFs (final, typeset versions of articles, etc.) in subject/institutional repositories and on personal websites on a number of occasions, most recently in a comment on SavageMinds related to articles [...]

While my university (Indiana University) now has a robust institutional repository (IUScholarWorks: Repository), it is also the home to an important subject repository called The Digital Library of the Commons. When these matters were new to me (in late 2004) I posted my introductory remarks from a symposium that I had organized (Contesting Culture as [...]

These days it is easy to put things on line — everyone has a web page and a graduate student or a member of the computer staff who can put PDFs of your articles and papers online for you even if you do not know how to do so yourself. The problem is not technical, [...]