EthnOA – Open Access in Social and Cultural Anthropology

• Applicants: Professorin Dr. Gabriele Alex; Dr. Anne Dippel; Martin Lee, since 3/2023
• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 508015222

The proposal aims to initiate a change in the publication culture in the ethnological disciplines. It wants to establish Open Access as a form of publication in both the Golden and the Green Road, which should remain free of processing charges for the authors. The Golden Road will be exemplified by the transformation of three central German ethnological journals: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal for Social and Cultural Anthropology, ZfE/JSCA, Zeitschrift für Volkskunde (Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft), ZfVk/ZEKW, Curare - Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie/Journal of Medical Anthropology. In the course of the implementation, opportunities and risks of the OA transformation for the ethnological disciplines will be analysed. The application aims to establish an infrastructure that supports disciplinary reflections and discussion with regard to Open Access in the ethnological fields. It builds a transdisciplinary bridge to the library and information sciences, whose technically adapted subject-related expertise in the infrastructures (OJS instances, repositories, FID SKA and local libraries) are central to the OA transformation of the ethnological disciplines. The project intends to establish a thematic network for exchange that will remain active iafter routines and platforms have been established, to discuss future possibilities and improve new states of development.

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Participating Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Universitätsbibliothek; Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; Universitätsbibliothek
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Andreas Degkwitz, Ph.D., until 3/2023