What articles from AAA would you like to see opened on Race and Racism?
With our inaugural co-edited issue on Hello Anthropocene: Climate Change and Anthropology closing back up after six months of free access (and with thanks to Ryan Anderson for…
Tag: open access
Homo Naledi’s other revolution
When the Homo Naledi discovery was announced I was excited to see that the initial publication was in an open access journal, eLife. In fact to me this…
#OpenAccess as Famine
The current state of thinking about open access today is a lot like our contemporary understanding of famine. In the early 1980s Amartya Sen and Jean Drèze published the…
Forget the outrage: Stop signing away your author rights to corporations.
Earlier this summer here at the Savage Minds editorial offices, we had a temporary informational mishap that led some of our staff to believe that the mega-publisher Elsevier…
Anthropoliteia and the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR)
Two bits of news concerning both Anthropoliteia and the journal Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR): First, we’re all so excited that our own William Garriot, along with friend-of-A…
Welcome Libraria!
When twitter lit up last week with the news that PKP and SPARC had partnered with EASA, SCA, and 4S your response was probably “WTF?” The new project is…
Learning to write English
Image courtesy of Sharon & Nikki McCutcheon (Creative Commons) Of our team of nine anthropologists only three are native speakers of English, two from England one from the…
Blog Update and Approaching Youth in Open Anthropology
Been doing some significant blog maintenance, trying to make the site look more like Anthropology 2.015. Finally updated the big list of Anthropology Blogs 2015. Please let me…
Open Access Articles from the American Anthropological Association
The AAA has decided to feature the “most-discussed” articles (as measured by Altmetrics) from Anthrosource by making them temporarily open-access. Among these are several articles that mi…
Presentation: Open Access / Science & Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Budka, P. 2015. Open Access / Science & Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie. Präsentation am Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, 14.04.2015. Was bedeutet freier Zugang zu wiss. Inhalten &a…
Salons to Explore New Frameworks for University Press Publishing in the Humanities
Beginning later this week, I will be hosting a series of six salons on the Indiana University campus. The topic for discussion is scholarly publishing in the arts…
American Anthropological Association #AAA2014 Meetings
The 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association were December 2-7 in Washington D.C. and feature a Searchable Program. I was a discussant for Anthropology and Storytelling,…
Anthropology Blogs Update – June 2014
It’s been too long since the last entry, and I’ve been notified of some new anthropology blogs–or ones I had not known about. Thank you for the update–the…
Reflections and Reports on Open Access Published in the New Issue of Cultural Anthropology (@culanth)
The new, May 2014 issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now. It is the second issue of the journal to be made freely available online, which means anyone…
Open Access at Indiana University Bloomington
Richard Poynder doesn’t miss a thing. Indiana University: Library Committee of the Bloomington Faculty Council decides not to recommend active OA policy. http://t.co/kmMkWVaX4G — Richard Poynder…
Scholarly Communication Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Davis
Circulated on behalf of a colleague… A new UC Davis initiative on “Innovating the Communication in Scholarship” (http://icis.ucdavis.edu/) is hiring a 2 year postdoctoral fellow, sta…
Check Out the New Anthropod Podcast on Open Access
I really enjoyed listening to the new Anthropod podcast on open access in anthropology. Focusing on the move of Cultural Anthropology to an open access model, hosts Bascom…
Anthropology Blogs 2014
Update 2015: This is the archive page for 2014 Anthropology Blogs. Click Anthropology Blogs 2015 for a current list and see also the Anthropology Blogs 2013 and 2012…
Journal “Cultural Anthropology” goes open access
The Society for Cultural Anthropology, in March 2013, announced plans for Cultural Anthropology to become an open access journal. Starting with its February 2014 issue (volume 29, number…
Conflation as Insult (On the Gold Open Access World I Live In)
On Savage Minds, Alex Golub very generously celebrates the recent publication of a large quantity of open access journal articles in anthropology and neighboring fields. I wish to…
On The Journal of Folklore Research in 2013
2013 was a very busy year for me. It was a great year, but it was overly full at work and so-called work-life balance thus was not much…
Notes on Thoughtfulness in Scholarly Publishing (3): In This, I Support Elsevier
[Updated] This series began in the wake of an instance in which I, to the irritation of most observers, questioned a case of self-piracy. Soon thereafter, self-piracy was…
Good News Roundup
There is way too much stuff going on in my life and work these days. Most of it is really good stuff, but it is hard to keep…
Its Like Woodie Guthrie’s Grand Coulee Dam, Only Its a Green #OA Policy for the UC System
“But now the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam’s fair land…” Someone needs to write a song in the style of Woodie Guthrie’s tunes celebrating the impressiveness and…