A quick note: Much praise for the Reporters Without Borders "Handbook for bloggers" on the GlobalVoices-website. Maybe it will be useful for academics as well?
"It is the first truly useful book I’ve seen aimed at the kinds of bloggers featured here a… more »
Category: "Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing"
Here are some interesting findings of a survey by the American Anthropological Association about members’ current practices for communicating electronically about the association and their research. In the anthropological blogosphere, we often wonder ab… more »
by lorenz on Aug 17, 2005 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet • 2 comments »
More and more anthropologists have started blogging and discussing their research interests with a wider audience. They use the internet as a library, as a tool for learning and teaching, as a space where they conduct fieldwork. They exchange knowledge,… more »
From the current issue of the online journal First Monday an article by John Willinsky, Professor of Literacy and Technology at the University of British Columbia. He argues for a better cooperation between the Open Source - and the Open Access - movemen… more »
by lorenz on Aug 10, 2005 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers
Peter Suber from Open Access News tells us about a new academic search engine called BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine). It discloses - according the press release he quotes - "more than 2,3 Mio. documents of 130 online - resources, incl. many scho… more »
Another great article on the Open Access philosophy, written by Shankar Iyer in the Financial Expressvia del.icio.us)
"The big question on everyone's mind is, "Why would someone open source an idea that they obviously struggled to work so hard for?"… more »
by lorenz on May 26, 2005 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia
A delayed note on two articles that (again) lead to a debate on the oldfashioned publishing conventions in the social sciences:
Christopher Kelty: Recursive public irony. On the difficulties to get a free copy of his own article, published in the jour… more »
by lorenz on Mar 13, 2005 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, books, anthropology (general), persons and theories • 2 comments »
This classic study in early anthropology (all in all 12 volumes, I think) is published online as part of Project Gutenberg. del.icio anthropology pointed to the book published on Bartleby's website. But the book can also be downloaded from Sacred Texts-w… more »
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