Dear All,

Authors of papers in these volumes can also share
their full papers using BoneCommons. It's a good idea
because "self-archiving" papers increases their impact
and citation rate
(http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/).

We're also getting emails from several individuals in
the developing world without access (or budgets) to
good library resources, and making this
material more available is important for them.

Anyway, I am an author in the Integrating
Zooarchaeology volume. I recently posted a link to my
paper in BoneCommons:
http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/icazForum/viewforum.php?f=3.
It's already had over 50 views and it's only been up
there a week! This is a great way to share research! 

A note-- Publishers generally allow authors to put
their papers on their own personal webites without any
copyright problems. You can announce your paper on
BoneCommons, put the abstract there, and then put a
link to it from there. You can also put a "preprint"
of your paper before it's published. 
In some cases, you can even upload the entire
published paper (BoneCommons has space for you to
attach files), but check with the publisher first! 

Also, if we get enough interest in people wanting to
self-archive their papers, we'll migrate everything to
an EPRINTS system, which will give enhanced search
functions.

Sarah

Sarah Whitcher Kansa
BoneCommons Chair

The Alexandria Archive Institute
Open Context Project
www.alexandriaarchive.org
www.opencontext.org
Office: (510) 528-5392
Fax: (866) 505-8626



--- Umberto Albarella <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Dear Zooarchers,
> 
> We are very pleased to announce the publication by
> Oxbow Books
> (http://www.oxbowbooks.com/) of another set of two
> volumes of the ICAZ 2002
> proceedings. Here are the details:
> 
> Integrating Zooarchaeology
> edited by Mark Maltby 
>
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/38228/OnlyResult/Yes?CFID=15935843&CFTOKEN=14831611
> 
> Recent advances in ageing and sexing animal bones
> edited by Deborah Ruscillo 
>
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/38227/OnlyResult/Yes?CFID=15935843&CFTOKEN=14831611
> 
> On the Oxbow catalogue you can also find details of
> the eleven volumes
> previously published. There is one more volume to
> come.
> 
> ICAZ and AEA members are entitled to a 50% discount
> on all volumes.
> Contributors have a 50% discount and should have
> already received a PDF file
> with their chapter from Oxbow (whether they buy or
> not the book). Oxbow also
> offers an excellent deal to libraries which are
> prepared to buy the whole
> series. Please, do get your library to buy the
> books, as this series is an
> important undertaking for the zooarchaeological
> community and it is vital that
> it gets good distribution.
> 
> Cheers,
> Umberto 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Umberto Albarella
> Department of Archaeology
> University of Sheffield
> Northgate House
> West Street
> Sheffield S1 4ET
> United Kingdom
> Telephone: (+) 44 (0) 114 22 22 943 
> Fax: (+) 44 (0) 114 27 22 563 
>
http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/albarella.html
> 
> "No co-operation in military matters should be an
> essential moral principle for all true scientists"
> Albert Einstein
> 


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