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

2. 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Rare and previously unpublished materials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

3. 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

4. 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
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5. Anthropological Fieldwork Online.
Published in 1922
Thousands of
photos
Approximately ~15,000 pages
of unpublished fieldwork –
journal entries, notebooks,
linguistic notes, charts, maps,
drawings
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Expeditions to the field
from 1914 – 1916; in 1917
and in 1918
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6. 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of unpublished fieldwork –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
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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
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7. 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
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8. 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
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Our goal is to bring all of these resources together into the
Open Anthropology Library
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9. 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
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10. OUR PLATFORM
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11. Open Anthropology Library Platform
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12. 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
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For Archives
Share
- Links to OA digital collections
- Increase usage of those links
- Connect that content to other related content
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13. Open Anthropology Library …Our Vision
Join us in building the world’s largest open access
repository of primary sources in Anthropology!
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14. Questions? Comments? Feedback?
Jenna Makowski, Editor
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