Open Access Anthropology

Just a note to note that I have made public an essay titled “Our Circulatory System (or Folklore Studies Publishing in the Era of Open Access, Corporate Enclosure and the Transformation of Scholarly Societies).” The piece began with a series of posts published on this site in 2008 and was a talk given at the [...]

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 [...]

There is way more relevant news from the world of scholarly communications than any of us can keep up with.  Thankfully Open Access News does an amazing job of flagging tons of important items for our consideration. A recent bit of news that I was especially glad to see was the pro-OA statement offered by [...]

I’m very happy to hear that Temple University (where I went to graduate school) has decided to make all future dissertations open access! More info available on Open Access News and Anthropologi.info.

Recently John Holbo at Crooked Timber posted a thought piece about how nice it would be to have “JSTOR for books.” Of course, we here at OAA would like everything to be fully Open Access, unlike the JSTOR model adopted for most of the AAA publications. But the reason I mention Holbo’s post is that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For those who have not encountered it yet, I wanted to call attention to the open access journal Cultural Analysis. As its editors describe it, “Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture. The journal features analytical research articles, but also includes notes, reviews, and responses.” In its 6th [...]