Open Access Initiatives from Alexander Street Anthropology Anthropological Fieldwork Online The Open Anthropology Library

Who We Are Who Is Alexander Street Anthropology? 1300 hours of ethnographic video 350,000 pages of published monographs 1.9 million audio recordings Rare and previously unpublished materials A multimedia platform that facilitates cross- searchability through semantic indexing Available to libraries through subscription services

Open Access is key to Anthropology’s future We are well positioned to think creatively about sustainable open access solutions in the archive and database space Flagship journals like Cultural Anthropology have gone OA Archives are creating OA digital repositories of primary sources New collaborative research approaches demand open access to data

Anthropological Fieldwork Online A hybrid open access database of anthropology’s most important ethnographic research from 1900 – 1960. Colin Turnbull Edward T. Hall Eric Wolf George Devereux Gregory Bateson Herbert Ian Priestly Huge Zemp John Layard Julian Steward Leslie White Marshall Sahlins Mary Douglas Melville J. Herskovits Victor Turner A R. Radcliffe-Brown Bronislaw Malinowski E.E. Evans-Pritchard Edmund Leach Edward Sapir Franz Boas (audio) Lorna Marshall Margaret Mead Max Gluckman Meyer Fortes Raymond Firth Ruth Benedict Timothy Asch Alfred L. Kroeber SLIDE CONTENT: WHO WE ARE – STATISTICS-FOCUSED, MAIN PARTNERS’ LOGOS [Presentation Name] | November 19, 2018

Anthropological Fieldwork Online . Published in 1922 Thousands of photos Approximately ~15,000 pages of unpublished fieldwork – journal entries, notebooks, linguistic notes, charts, maps, drawings SLIDE CONTENT: WHO WE ARE – STATISTICS-FOCUSED, MAIN PARTNERS’ LOGOS Expeditions to the field from 1914 – 1916; in 1917 and in 1918 [Presentation Name] | November 19, 2018

Anthropological Fieldwork Online . Published in 1922 Problem: Final published work separate from the raw, primary source research upon which it’s built Thousands of photos Approximately ~15,000 pages of unpublished fieldwork – journal entries, notebooks, linguistic notes, charts, maps, drawings SLIDE CONTENT: WHO WE ARE – STATISTICS-FOCUSED, MAIN PARTNERS’ LOGOS Expeditions to the field from 1914 – 1916; in 1917 and in 1918 Problem: Not digitized Problem: Half are in the USA, half are in Europe Problem: Scholarly research not cross-searchable [Presentation Name] | November 19, 2018

Two Routes to Open Access Hybrid Open Access License After an embargo period, content moves to open access Royalty channeling options to an Open Access Pool Sponsored Open Access License No embargo period Content placed into a queue and digitized with funds from the Open Access Pool of sponsor royalties and a 10% contribution of Alexander Street’s subscription revenue Anthropological Fieldwork Online SLIDE CONTENT: WHO WE ARE – STATISTICS-FOCUSED, MAIN PARTNERS’ LOGOS [Presentation Name] | November 19, 2018

We are only one of THOUSANDS of resources … Anthropological Fieldwork Online Open Book Publishers Cultural Anthropology The University Digital Conservancy Spencer and Gillen Database Archival metadata and finding aids Cengage textbooks Anthropology Today Human Relations Area Files Adam Mathews SLIDE CONTENT: WHO WE ARE – STATISTICS-FOCUSED, MAIN PARTNERS’ LOGOS Our goal is to bring all of these resources together into the Open Anthropology Library [Presentation Name] | November 19, 2018

Open Anthropology Library A comprehensive, carefully curated index linking for fee and for free content to drive usage, traffic, engagement and connections between our content and the myriad of open access content Fully indexed and cross-searchable links and discovery tools allowing users to build comprehensive bibliographies and research strategies Hosting functionality that allows users to add and share new primary sources and teaching materials A software platform to allow anthropologists to collaborate An online community of anthropologists SLIDE CONTENT: COLLECTION-MAIN [Presentation Name] | November 19, 2018

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Open Anthropology Library …Our Vision For Faculty & Students Find - all relevant material - use all OA material Upload – papers, objects, CVs, videos, audio Tag – any object Annotate – any object Share - citations, links, playlists SLIDE CONTENT: COLLECTION-MAIN For Archives Share - Links to OA digital collections - Increase usage of those links - Connect that content to other related content [Presentation Name] | November 19, 2018

Open Anthropology Library …Our Vision Join us in building the world’s largest open access repository of primary sources in Anthropology! SLIDE CONTENT: COLLECTION-MAIN [Presentation Name] | November 19, 2018

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