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(via Intute Social Science Blog) Homeless women, gated commnities, active citizenship and the post-industrial labour market: That's what the papers in the first issue of the new open access journal People, Place and Policy are about: People, Place an… more »

Voices: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement is a collection of oral histories recorded by Beirut-based anthropologist and oral historian Rosemary Sayigh. It was published as e-book, devoted to men and women living in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and… more »

Podcasting - publishing mp3-interviews on websites - has become more popular in the social sciences, including anthropology. But as Paul Ayres writes in an article for ALISS Quarterly, the journal of the Association of Librarians and Information professi… more »

All articles and book reviews from 2002 to 2005 of the journal Anthropologica - the official publication of the Canadian Anthropology Society are freely accessible for everybody. Looks more interesting than many other journals, so I might blog about s… more »

Have they forgotten to password protect the papers? Last year, you needed a password to open the papers of the ASA conference Anthropology and Cosmopolitaism. This year's papers are freely accessible to everybody- good news! A step towards Open Access An… more »

In an article in Anthropology News May 2007, Bill Davis, Executive Director of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) explains why he doesn't embrace the arguments of open access advocates to make electronic versions of scholarly journals free to… more »

Jen Cardew has done a great job in recording and publishing speeches held at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). Several new podcasts (mp3-files from the session "Global Health in the Time of Violence") can be downloaded. S… more »

Open Access to anthropology journals? "How to find the money to publish journals if one doesn’t make readers pay?", opponents of Open Access would ask. But as Alex Golub explains in an article in Anthropology News April: The “reader-pays” model for fundi… more »