ASAonline©

The ASA is delighted to announce ASAonline, a new online publication series to be launched in 2008. The series will specialise in long in-depth articles in any field of anthropology and will be available online on a free-to-read/download basis. All publications in the series will be evaluated by anonymous peer-review.

The ASA committee has been increasingly concerned that public accessibility to journals of quality has not improved in recent years. While most of our research is publicly funded, results are seldom freely accessible. As academic journals are increasingly being transferred to management by publishers, and costs increase, access to anthropological research has become increasingly privileged. As the committee wish anthropological research to be widely available, we have decided to launch our own online publication series to complement our existing book publications. We also seek to expand our publication range to include digital media and to adopt new technologies. Our aim is to publish in-depth ethnographic work in pamphlet-style with a wide potential readership. Pamphlets will be available to be read online, and a downloadable version will also be available.

Although we recognize that increasing attention to citation index scores and other supposed 'measures' of research excellence may have an increasing bearing not simply on the RAE but on individuals' promotion prospects in the years ahead, we expect this series to achieve a high international profile through its association with ASA and rigorous peer reviewing by respected experts in relevant fields. The mode of distribution will permit a much larger readership than specialist academic journals, and this will also help to establish publishing in ASA online as a mark of distinction, as a publishing enterprise with a public outreach function in which powerful ideas and good writing will be necessary to secure acceptance.

The series will be of the highest intellectual quality and will reach out to a broad readership both within and beyond anthropology itself.

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