Open Access Anthropology

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 […]

In response to a request from Jason Cross, anthropologist and lawyer in training at Duke University, I’ve been examining more carefully the available open access resources in and around anthropology. The aim is twofold. First I simply want to draw attention to how much action there has already been in making research open access, […]

(Cross posted at Savage Minds.)

I’d like to join the chorus of anthropology blogs congratulating the American Museum of Natural History in New York for publishing their collected papers, going back a hundred years, online for free, open-access.
(via. Museum Anthropology and Anthropologi.info)
UPDATE: Also see the Smithsonian’s Contributions to Anthropology, which also recently went Open Access!

I recently came across SelectedWorks, a commercial online service which makes it easy for scholars to self-archive/publish their own works on their own faculty website. The only problem is that it is a commercial service. Something like this should be easy to do as an open source plugin for WordPress and other publishing platforms. I […]

(cross posted from Savage Minds )
While the news has not been made official yet, many of us have already heard unofficially that AnthroSource is dropping its contract with University of California Press and moving to Wiley-Blackwell. We don’t know much about the deal so far, but at this point a couple of obvious things jump […]

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 […]

(this has been crossposted from Savage Minds)
The latest issue of Anthropology News is out and features an op-ed by Alex Golub (i.e. “me” — this blog doesn’t seem to attribute entries to particular authors) on open access publishing and the AAA (you can read the full text of the piece here). Actually that is not […]

I wanted to share news with you that the a valuable, but hard to find, old anthropology journal publication is now available online in an open access. Kudos to Museum Anthropology for sharing this with us.
The Folklore and Folk Music Archivist was diligently put up by the people over at the the Archives of […]

I am teaching a week on Homer and ‘verbal art’ in one of my classes. I am not a Homer scholar and asked a friend in classics what they might recommend I read to present students the state of the art on oral tradition. The answer, not surprisingly, is Oral Tradition, a great open access […]

Over the next couple of months I’d like to make this blog a place to learn not only about OA issues in Anthropology, but about open access texts in general. How better to demonstrate the importance of OA than to showcase all the great OA work that is being Done?
In this spirit I want to […]