Another example of experimenting with the internet: The journal Museum Anthropology (MUA) has started publishing its book reviews in a blog called Museum Anthropology Review:
Its purpose is the dissemination of reviews, essays, obituaries and other editorially-reviewed content complementing the work of Museum Anthropology. It reflects the research and outreach interests of the Council for Museum Anthropology and is offered as a resource enhancing all fields concerned with the study of material culture and with the place of museums and related institutions in social life.
Journal editor Jason Baird Jackson explains:
On a case by case basis, I am asking authors of reviews-in-hand if they would be willing to publish their review online. Publishing reviews in this way takes advantage of the following benefits of the online medium (among others): immediate rather than delayed publication, free access to anyone in the world with internet access, the ability to incorporate internet hyperlinks, the ability to publish color images along with the review, the ability (if desired by the author) to turn on the blog's comment function for the review (thus allowing others to comment on the review or its subject matter), and the ability for an author to simply send an email link for the review to whomever they wish to share the review with.
Because reviews published thus are easily found by anyone doing internet searches, they may become a subject of discussion elsewhere on the web. They can also benefit from the power of the social networking dynamic of the web today, such as with folksonomy tagging. This strategy also provides more space for publication of peer-reviewed articles in the journal itself.
>> visit the Museum Anthropology Review
SEE ALSO:
More book reviews: Publishers are approaching bloggers
New: Anthropology Matters with book reviews
American Ethnologist: Book Reviews in Full-Text!
Lots of book reviews on The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology's site
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