American Anthropological Association

Higher education institutions around the country are feeling the pinch of the economic downturn and librarians, already no strangers to tightened budgets, have expressed particular concern about the effects of cutbacks.

In an attempt to respond to the financial pressures felt by our institutional subscribers, our Executive Board voted to freeze 2010 subscription rates for all AAA journals, as well as our digital platform Anthrosource.

Despite the price freeze, we are committed to working with our publishing partner, Wiley-Blackwell, to make investments in our 22 titles. Wiley-Blackwell has invested in a massive retrodigitization project, which will consolidate all AAA content on a single platform and add more than 900 articles to AnthroSource as well as four decades of Anthropology News.

New content now appears in full-text, full-searchable HTML as well as PDF format, and editors have the option to publish figures in color online. Plans are also underway for new online features including supporting materials (e.g. datasets, translations), online discussions linked to content, and podcasts.

We also continue to make our content available for free or at a reduced cost in the developing world via philanthropic programs such as HINARI, OARE, INASP and AGORA, and offer free access to AnthroSource to U.S. Tribal Colleges, U.S. Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Canadian Arctic Colleges and Canadian First Nation Colleges.

And don’t forget: if you’re an AAA member, you already have free access to Anthrosource!

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