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Open Access journal Antrocom now also in English / CFP

Published on February 17, 2008 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, journal articles / papers

Last summer I’ve mentioned for the first time the Italian project Antrocom. Now, their journal consists of articles in English as well. I was asked to forward their Call for papers:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Antrocom – The Online Journal for Anthropology will accept and review submissions in Italian, English and French from any author, in any global locality. A body of international peers will review all submissions, with potential author revisions as recommended by reviewers, with the intent to achieve published papers that:

– Relate to the field of physical anthropology and cultural
anthropology (in its broader domain as a discipline);
– Represent new, previously unpublished work;
– Advance the state of knowledge of the field;
– are conformed to a high standard of scholarly presentation.

The deadline for the next number (volume 4, number 1, 2008) is April, 15th, 2008.

Articles can be sent to redazione [at] antrocom.net. Web site: http://www.antrocom.net

Last summer I've mentioned for the first time the Italian project Antrocom. Now, their journal consists of articles in English as well. I was asked to forward their Call for papers:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Antrocom - The Online Journal for Anthropology…

Open Access: South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal

Published on February 17, 2008 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, journal articles / papers, migration, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, websites

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-based studies on South Asia by giving them a greater visibility through a free and worldwide access. It is the “first academic and peer-reviewed on-line journal devoted to social sciences studies on South Asia.” It covers studies in history, geography, anthropology, sociology, political science and economy.

The next issue (due in Spring 2008) will deal with the mobilization of ‘offended communities’ in South Asia.

>> visit the journal’s website

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-based studies on South Asia…

ScientificCommons.org – The Open Access Search Engine

Published on January 20, 2008 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, journal articles / papers, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia, websites

UPDATE: ScientificCommons was closed down in 2014

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 that 44 000 hits but a quick check reveals that not all papers or theses are open access.

ScientificCommons.org is a project of the University of St.Gallen (Switzerland) and hosted and developed at the Institute for Media and Communications Management:

The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public. A key challenge of the project is to support the rapidly growing number of movements and archives who admit the free distribution and access to scientific knowledge

>> visit ScientificCommons

There is another search engine as well: OAIster. There a search for anthropology gives 54679 records – but also included some papers with restricted access (f.ex. from journals like Current Anthropology)

See also 2007 Highlights over at Savage Minds: “2007 was a great year for the open access movement”.

2006 – The Year of Open Access Anthropology?

For Open Access: “The pay-for-content model has never been successful”

UPDATE: ScientificCommons was closed down in 2014

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…

Already lots of publications in the open access anthropology repository Mana’o

Published on December 11, 2007 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, journal articles / papers, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, websites

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 papers Alex Golub gave at AAA-meeting and other publications by Savage Minds bloggers.

>> visit Mana’o

antropologi.info survey: Six anthropologists on Anthropology and Internet

Open Source Anthropology : Are anthropologists serious about sharing knowledge?

First issue of open access journal “After Culture” is online

Omertaa – Open access journal for Applied Anthropology

For Open Access: “The pay-for-content model has never been successful”

Open Access: “The American Anthropological Association reminds me of the recording industry”

2006 – The Year of Open Access Anthropology?

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…

Now open access to 39 years of the journal Folklore Forum

Published on December 3, 2007 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, cyberanthropology, interdisciplinary, internet, journal articles / papers, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, websites

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 everybody in the freshly digitized archives of Folklore Forum.

Their most recent volum focuses on Folklore and the Internet and includes articles on urban legends that circulate in chain letter-form as anonymous emails, and on icons and avatars as cyberart and examples of the development of folkloric art forms online.

Folklore has has always had an ambivalent relationship with mass media, Editor-in-Chief Curtis Ashton writes in the editorial:

Salvage ethnography to recover oral texts would be unnecessary if print were not invading 19th century Europe and America and depriving the Folk of their lore. (…) Though the trend has been shifting in professional meetings and journal publications, folklorists do tend to avoid the world of computers as a field for enquiry, either because of a lack of technical training or just a lack of general interest.

But as this volume demonstrates, the web has much to offer for folklorists:

I encourage our readers to consider how we use the Internet in our work as folklorists, as a object of study in an of itself, with its own discourse of traditional motifs; as a field for ethnographic research into the virtual, networked community; as a means for scholarly communication and publication; as a storage facility for the digitally compressed knowledge of the past; as a presentation space for the mutual benefit of both ethnographer and informant; as a means for reflection, rethinking how we do our work, what draws us to it, and why.

>> visit Folklore Forum

As a sidenote: In the most recent entry here on antropologi.info I wrote about how folkore can enrich anthropology, see “Take care of the different national traditions of anthropology”

2006 – The Year of Open Access Anthropology?

antropologi.info survey: Six anthropologists on Anthropology and Internet