EthnOA Open Access in the disciplines of Social, Cultural and Historical Anthropology

01/06/2023 to 31/05/2026

The majority of German-language ethnological journals have not yet switched to OA; this is a concretely measurable desideratum that needs to be changed. For this purpose, the Fachinformationsdienst Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (FID SKA), three journals (Curare - Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie/Journal of Medical Anthropology, Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/JSCA) and the two professional societies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft - DGEKW, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie - DGSKA) have joined forces to tackle this task in a concerted manner (together with the libraries of the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).
The aim is to develop and implement the professional and subject-specific infrastructural discussions and considerations on the possibilities and challenges of a publication culture shaped by OA and its implementation in concrete work steps and routines. The project enables the consolidation of subject-specific reflection and discussion together with the establishment of the technically adapted subject-specific expertise at the infrastructures (OJS instances, repositories, FID SKA and local libraries).