Open Access Anthropology

Those visiting this website may wish to follow discussions of the Open Folklore project happening elsewhere.  Here are some links. The site itself, with an announcement from the lead partners (IUB Libraries and the AFS) can be found at: http://www.openfolklore.org/ Two detailed blog posts about the project have appeared, one at Savage Minds (here) and [...]

In an arrangement similar to that characterizing the publication of Chris Kelty‘s book Two Bits by Duke University Press, Columbia University Press is both selling a print edition of Ted Striphas’ new book The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control and is facilitating the author’s distribution of the book as [...]

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.

For many anthropologists who study the Pacific, the Journal of the Polynesian Society (or the JPS as its fondly known) is considered the ultimate periodical. Over 100 years old, it has published a wealth of data on Pacific island societies in fields as diverse as archaeology, history, folklore, linguistics… in fact the JPS has been [...]

Many professors have a web presence these days, but few are as professional looking as Clarence Gravlee’s. It features a clean — almost slick — design. His publications page features open access preprints and postprints along with abstracts, metadata, links to google scholar, and a shortcut to post his work to your citeulike library, so [...]

The Social Science Research Council is a funder with a long history of supporting anthropological research, and it has done a great job embracing the web by including blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, and tons of great, open content on its website. While the SSRC helps publish many volumes that come out of research that it [...]

John Charlot is not exactly an anthropologist — he is a professor of religion at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Throughout the course of his career he has published extensively on Hawai’ian history and religion, as well as other diverse topics such Samoan literature and Vietnamese religion. Charlot has now provided a massive list [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, both [...]