Open Access Anthropology

Readers of Open Access Anthropology will want to check out the announcements for (and press coverage of) the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity that was just announced by Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT and Berkeley.
I just finished speaking to Inside Higher Education about it for a story that they will run tomorrow.  I had not yet [...]

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 [...]

A new birth of an OAA Journal is a great contribution that Angels made on Open Access Anthropology Day 2009
As Angels wrote,
I applied for ISSN on Open Access Anthropology Day, as a way to mark the day, and I got a response from the ISSN team the next morning.
The outcome of this step was the [...]

(cross-posted from www.jasonbairdjackson.com)
An ambitious gold open access journal publishing effort for folkloristics and neighboring fields (ethnomusicology, tribal studies, regional studies, and performance studies) is underway in India. The National Folklore Support Centre is using Open Journal Systems to host fourteen journals, both new and established. Some have been publishing for some time, others have launched [...]

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, [...]

Just a quick note to announce the publication of the fourth issue of Museum Anthropology Review (volume 2, number 2). Find it here. Thanks to everyone who contributed to it.