http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org Promoting Open Access in Anthropology Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:12:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While my university (Indiana University) now has a robust institutional repository (IUScholarWorks: Repository), it is also the home to an important subject repository called The Digital Library of the Commons. When these matters were new to me (in late 2004) I posted my introductory remarks from a symposium that I ... http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/08/06/new-ways-to-pay-for-free-stuff/ Readers of Open Access Anthropology will probably want to consult Kimberly Christen's latest post at Long Road. She very productively discusses author agreements in anthropology, based on her experience with two current publication projects and in light of larger discussions regarding open access. Along the way, she contextualizes the good ... http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/05/09/kim-christen-on-author-agreements-and-nuanced-open-access/ (cross posted from Savage Minds) Recently Anthropologi.info blogged a new anthropology site, American Ethnography. American Ethnography is a very pretty site with monthly thematic collections of articles from AAA journals. My initial response was: “wow, how happy will the AAA be to see entire articles they are selling for money on ... http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/04/29/american-ethnography-the-aaa-and-the-public-domain/ Its a small matter in a sea of broader OAA news, but I am pleased to note (as the journal's editor) that the spring 2008 issue of Museum Anthropology Review is now available. It can be found online at http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/mar. Supporters of OA publishing can help the cause by "registering" with ... http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/04/18/museum-anthropology-review-21-just-published/ 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. ... http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/03/09/now-you-have-two-problems-on-mandating-open-acess/ While my colleagues are busy with other duties, I fear over-discussing folklore matters here at Open Access Anthropology. Thus, I will make this a quick post to simply note (as the journal's faculty advisor) that the editors of Folklore Forum have just published a new issue focused on the "Folklore ... http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/03/08/new-issue-new-website-for-folklore-forum/ Thanks to everyone who has found these discussions of OA in folklore studies of interest, especially those who have posted links to them or who have written with encouraging comments. In this final post, which I will try to keep brief, I will take the final leg of my proposed ... http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/02/28/open-access-folkloristics-part-3-of-3/ In my previous post, I discussed the example of Oral Tradition, citing it as an example of a vital, established house journal that made the transition to OA. Another established folklore studies journals that has made this switch is Asian Ethnology, a venerable (founded 1942) journal that was known until ... http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/02/20/open-access-folkloristics-part-2/ In a series of brief "did you know" posts I want to lay the foundations for a reflection on the state of OA in a field neighboring anthropology with which cultural and linguistic anthropologists have long had close dealings (or dual identities). This comes easily to me as I was ... http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/02/16/open-access-folkloristics-part-1/ Harvard Faculty, led by Robert Darnton, have passed a mandate that all research publications must be made open access. More from Peter Suber's blog http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/2008/02/14/harvard-mandates-open-access/