Hello to all,

from "Savage Minds" anthropology blog; perhaps of interest for some of you.

Best,
Roberto

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http://savageminds.org/2007/10/05/please-submit-to-manao/

Fri 5 Oct 2007

Please submit to Mana'o

Posted by Rex under Open Access Open Source

It is with great pleasure that I request submissions for MANAO—an Open
Access repository for anthropology sponsored by the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. In Hawai'ian
"mana'o" means thoughts, ideas, knowledge, or opinions—when making
decisions together people in Hawai'i often ask for each other's
mana'o. The Mana'o project combines anthropology's commitment with the
ideal of 'open access' with open source software's focus on free
technology. The goal is to provide tools that allow scholars to better
communicate with each other and with the world.

Mana'o will 'soft-launch' in late-November 2007 during the annual
meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington D.C.
We are currently inviting early adopters to submit work that will be
featured in this launch. At the moment we are specifically interested
in:

BA Theses
MA Theses
Ph.D. Theses
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Papers given at academic conferences
Digitized books

If you would like to deposit your work with us, simply email it to
[log in to unmask] and our staff will process it and deposit
it in Mana'o. If you already have your publications online, simply
send us the URL and we will process the material ourselves.

Please note that we can only deposit documents that are in the public
domain, documents for which you clearly hold the copyright, or
documents for which the copyright owner (typically, the publisher)
permits authors to deposit their work in a repository such as this.
Unfortunately, this does not include PDFs of your dissertation created
by UMI (unless you have used the UMI Open Access publishing option).
We can, however, accept the electronic documents that you submitted to
UMI when you deposited your dissertation with your university library.
If you are unsure who owns the copyright to the work you wish to
submit, we can work with you to determine your rights.

Anthropologists have long been concerned with making their world
available to the public, including the communities with whom they have
lived and conducted fieldwork. Mana'o represents an important step
forward in creating concrete open access solutions for anthropology. I
hope that you will be part of our initial program, and I look forward
to receiving your submission!

Please circulate this call for submissions as widely as possible. If
you are interested in volunteering for the project, please do not
hesitate to contact me at [log in to unmask]

Thank you,
Alex Golub, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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