Open Access Anthropology » Repositories http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org Promoting Open Access in Anthropology Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:14:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Our Circulatory System (or Folklore Studies Publishing in the Era of Open Access, Corporate Enclosure and the Transformation of Scholarly Societies) http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2010/05/28/our-circulatory-system-or-folklore-studies-publishing-in-the-era-of-open-access-corporate-enclosure-and-the-transformation-of-scholarly-societies/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2010/05/28/our-circulatory-system-or-folklore-studies-publishing-in-the-era-of-open-access-corporate-enclosure-and-the-transformation-of-scholarly-societies/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 17:05:47 +0000 jbj http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=191 Just a note to note that I have made public an essay titled “Our Circulatory System (or Folklore Studies Publishing in the Era of Open Access, Corporate Enclosure and the Transformation of Scholarly Societies).” The piece began with a series of posts published on this site in 2008 and was a talk given at the symposium “The Form of Value in Globalized Traditions” organized by the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in 2009. It is long (about 5000 words) and can be found on my website here: http://wp.me/p6MUY-8Z.

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The video archive version of the recent Association for Research Libraries (ARL) webcast on “Reaching Out to Leaders of Scholarly Societies at Research Institutions” to which I contributed is now available online.  It can be gotten to for free, all that is required is signing in for ARL headcounting purposes.  Watching it in this way provides the same content experienced when the program was being done live.  The event lasted one hour.  IU ScholarWorks Librarian Jennifer Laherty and I were the first of two pairs of speakers.  We present after about five minutes of introduction from the ARL staff organizers who spoke on the general goals of the initiative of which the program was a part.  Q&A follows the second presentation on data projects in astronomy (by Sayeed Choudhury and Robert Hanisch). Find the webcast via a link available here:  http://www.arl.org/sc/faculty/coi/COIwebcast2009.shtml.

In my comments I address briefly my experiences working on scholarly communications issues in anthropology and in folklore studies.

]]> http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/08/08/scholarly-society-library-partnerships-webcast-now-online/feed/ 0 In Search of Anthropology-Friendly Subject Repositories http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/07/24/in-search-of-anthropology-friendly-subject-repositories/ http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2009/07/24/in-search-of-anthropology-friendly-subject-repositories/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:17:09 +0000 jbj http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/?p=160 Not everyone is employed at an institution that has established an stable, standard institutional repository where manuscripts, working papers, white papers, and green OA articles can be deposited. As discusussed on the Open Access Anthropology list, the Mana’o Project (a provisional subject repository for anthropology) is offline, for the time being at least. While discussions aimed at establishing an anthropology subject repository on firm footing continue, it might be good to inventory known repositories in which anthropologists might wish place their work.  Two that I know about have a policy orientation–IssueLab and Policy Archive. Another one of possible interest is the Digital Library of the Commons, a repository for scholarship dealing with commons, common-pool resources, and common property issues.  If you know of other repositories into which scholars in anthropology and neighboring fields could place their work, please leave a comment or link.

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