Open Access Week is Here!

Berghahn Books supports practical Open Access policies that help make scholarship available to a broader audience in a sustainable way.

In addition to offering gold open access options that uphold publication mandates instituted by our authors’ funding partners, we also participate in initiatives, such as Knowledge Unlatched, which provide collective funding opportunities for selected titles.

Additional information regarding our open access policies can be found here, under the “Open Access” tab. If open access status is required for your publication, please contact your Berghahn editor.

Social Anthropology joins Berghahn Open Anthro

Happy International Open Access week! This year’s theme is: “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” In the spirit of this theme, Berghahn is thrilled that Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, is transitioning to fully open access by joining the Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe to Open (S2O) initiative, which will enter its third year in 2022.

With the anthropology discipline’s enthusiastic support for open access and Berghahn’s current success with the Berghahn Open Anthro pilot, EASA and Berghahn’s partnership reflects the common goal of finding a sustainable and equitable solution for publisher, society, and researcher.

Mariya Ivancheva, President of EASA: “EASA’s members voted overwhelmingly to take our journal Open Access in a way that is sustainable and equitable. It will allow all anthropologists, anywhere in the world, to access our journal and hopefully amend at least partially the asymmetry of access to knowledge that paywalled content has meant for colleagues and students in less financially resourced parts of the continent and the world. We are excited about the opportunities this presents our discipline and are committed to working closely with Berghahn to make not just the access to, but also production of academic knowledge a globally more equitable process.”

Read more about the journal’s transition here. Visit the journal’s webpage to support and subscribe.

Three Berghahn Journals Move to Open Access through Knowledge Unlatched Select

We are also happy to announce that three more Berghahn Journals became Open Access in 2021 thanks to the generous support from a global network of libraries as part of the Knowledge Unlatched Select initiative. View the first Open Access issues of the journals:

These three join Anthropology in Action (OA as of 2018) and Aspasia (OA as of 2019) on the growing list of Berghahn Open Access Journals supported by Knowledge Unlatched.

For more information about Open Access in Berghahn Journals, please visit the Open Access page of our website.