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Hello everyone --
Here at Manoa we are in the process of setting up an open access repository
for anthropology (please see the call for submissions below). I'm very
excited about this project and I think it would really make a strong
statement for Pacific anthropologists to be involved early and have their
work featured. Please email me if you would like your work hosted by the
repository or have any further questions about the project.
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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
Honolulu HI 96822-2223
808 956-6775
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