Open Access Anthropology

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 […]

Oops, not CC Lemon, but CC Learn … my mistake.
ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and […]

[Originally posted on Savage Minds.]
As anthropologists move towards more and more open models of sharing knowledge it will be important to be aware of the potential conflicts this might cause for indigenous groups who wish to restrict access to that knowledge. We’ve all heard of individual words being trademarked, but what if indigenous people wish […]

The journals published by individual sections of the AAA are handled by U.C. Press, which has this to say about open access repositories:
In response to the evolving nature of scholarly exchange and collaboration, University of California Press now allows its authors to post preprints and postprints on authors’ personal websites, on discipline-specific servers of preprints […]