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This morning, the journal Museum Anthropology Review was launched as an open access journal. The content that was published during 2007 (the journal's first year) is now available in both HTML and PDF format - free for all readers all over the world.… more »

Migration and Constructions of the Other is the topic of the first (and most recent) issue of the Open Access journal South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal. According to their self-description, the journal "seeks to ‘democratize’ research-bas… more »

How can I find research papers and theses that are freely available? ScienceCommons is a search engine and portal that is still in beta but now lists 893 repositories (according to Peter Suber at Open Access News). A search for anthropology gives more th… more »

MANAO - new Open Access repository for anthropology was announced for the first time not more than two months ago. Now, already 82 publications can be read and downloaded - both theses, conference papers, monographs and book chapters - including the pape… more »

While new media can foster participatory ethnography and enhance access, one also has to reflect on the implications of the Internet’s openness and availability. This was one of the lessons of a session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropologic… more »

Not even more and more anthropologists are blogging. Now, even anthropology organisations have discovered the internet. A few days ago, ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth) has launched their blog "aimed at providing a n… more »

Folklore Forum, a journal that is produced by graduate students at the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department of Indiana University, has gone Open Access. From now on, 39 years of scholarship, debate, and exchange of ideas are freely accessible for ever… more »

Another new blog: Anthropologist Maximilian C. Forte has recently launched the blog Open Anthropology - "a project of decolonization, growing out of a discipline with a long history and a deep epistemological connection to colonialism": OPEN ANTHROPOL… more »