Open Access Anthropology

I recently wrote a piece for Anthropology News which mentioned among other things that regardless of the AAA’s position, official or unofficial, about Open Access, it’s nonetheless happening in all kinds of ways. Now it’s happening in one more way that the AAA will have to deal with. Viz. Harvard’s recent announcement that […]

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, […]

The BBC reports that open access to research is gaining steam as more than 20,000 people, including Nobel Prize winners, have signed a petition calling for greater access to publicly-funded research. While publishers are fighting open access, a growing number of funding agencies and universities are making it a mandatory requirement.

Please check out an editorial piece published in the open access journal, PLoS Biology about openness and how it is in the best interest of science and the public it serves. The title of the editorial is, “Open Access to Research Is in the Public Interest” and here’s an excerpt to wet your appetite,
“For those […]

Nature has been tracking down some emails and conversations between several large scientific publishers and a public relations firm. The publishers include Elsevier and Wiley and before you ask, “So what does this have to do with me, an anthropologist?” Let me remind you that the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Journal of Primatology, […]

Head on over to 3 Quarks Daily, where Bill Hooker just wrapped up a three part trilogy on how open access and open science will change the world:

The Future of Science is Open, Part 1: Open Access
The Future of Science is Open, Part 2: Open Science
The Future of Science is Open, Part 3: An Open […]

The De Lange Conference, a large well-funded bi-annual conference is focused on “Emerging Libraries” this year, including a number of luminaries from the Open Access world, like Harold Varmus, Brewster Kahle and James Boyle. Registration is cheap and plane fare to Houston is cheap…

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My love/hate relationship with the NYT Magazine grows ever stronger with the publication of a totally fascinating story of the intelligence community’s attempt to take advantage of the “wisdom of crowds”–albeit crowds of the secretive, martini-swilling, karate-chopping and debonaire kind, viz. “open source spying.”[1] It’s a great article about the […]