Open Access Anthropology

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 [...]

In November 2006, Tonga was swept by a wave of civil disorder. One of the casualities of this was the Friendly Islands Bookstore, one of the few places in Nuku’alofa (the capital of Tonga) where you could go to purchase academic books.
Enter Michael Evans, a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. [...]