Open Access Anthropology

A friend who is very involved in the leadership of the American Folklore Society  just shared with me a link to James Lappin’s very effective blog post “The Impact of the Web 2.0 World on the Records Management Society.”  While presented as a case study of information science/archives organizations in the UK, its arguments generalize [...]

The video archive version of the recent Association for Research Libraries (ARL) webcast on “Reaching Out to Leaders of Scholarly Societies at Research Institutions” to which I contributed is now available online.  It can be gotten to for free, all that is required is signing in for ARL headcounting purposes.  Watching it in this way [...]

While much of its blog work actually takes place on Savage Minds and elsewhere, I have a sense that OA advocates interested in what is happening in anthropology may occasionally check in here or have an RSS feed here. For such folks, I can note briefly the results of the recent Savage Minds OA awards, [...]

Via BoingBoing:
The last several years have witnessed the coalescing of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) social movement that champions human rights, human development, and the public interest as the focal points of innovation and information policy.
The Yale Information Society Project’s (ISP) first A2K conference advanced our commitment to building a broad conceptual framework of Access [...]

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…