Golublog: An Anthropology Blog

The amount of Free/Open Source Scholarship on the internet continues to skyrocket. On February 23 the University of California unveiled it’s “eScholarship”:http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/ service as part of the “California Digital Library”:http://www.cdlib.org/ that I blogged about “earlier”:http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=305 — it’s sort of like “the Australian Nationa University’s ePrints service”:http://eprints.anu.edu.au/ except with less meat pies and Blundstone boots. So far there are just over 6,000 papers available for download. This is exciting news for those of us who thought ‘i-’ was on the verge of stealing the “Sexy Technology Prefix” title away from ‘e-’, which has held it since it usurped ‘cyber-’ in 1998.

My ASAO homies have also pointed out “Eldis”:http://www.eldis.org/, a sort of gateway for information about developing countries hosted at the University of Sussex. They feature free dowloadable reports from various NGOs and UN type agencies — there are “over thirty about Papua New Guinea”:http://www.eldis.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe?QB0=AND&QF0=DE@DOCNO&QI0=Papua+New+Guinea*&MR=20&TN=a1&DF=f1&RF=s1&DL=0&RL=0&NP=3&MF=countmsg.ini&AC=QBE_QUERY&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe&BU=http%3A//www.eldis.org/search.htm available for download. The “British Library for Development Studies”:http://blds.ids.ac.uk/blds/ a roughly similar institution, also has “articles on Papua New Guinea”:http://blds.ids.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dbtcgi.exe?$BOOL+0=AND&TI%7CDE=Papua+New+Guinea*&$BOOL+1=AND&YR=%3E2000&$BOOL+2=OR&CPROF=Papua+New+Guinea*&$TEXTBASE_PATH=d:\Inetpub\wwwroot\data\&$TEXTBASE_NAME=blds&$MAXRECS=12&$NOREPORT=0&$NODISPLAY=0&$REPORT_FORM=country as well as a nifty “country profile”:http://www.eldis.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe?QB0=AND&QF0=GEOG&QI0=Papua+New+Guinea&MR=20&TN=country&DF=countrynew&RF=countrynew&DL=0&RL=0&NP=3&MF=countmsg.ini&AC=QBE_QUERY&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe&BU=http%3A//www.eldis.org/search.htm with links to overviews from the IMF and so forth.

If you are looking for some non-free treeware to read, you might want to check out two of the lesser-known but still interesting literary awards that are out there: “The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights”:http://www.myerscenter.org/ (hint: they are anti-bigotry) has released it’s “2004 Book Award Winners”:http://www.myerscenter.org/pages/04winners.htm. In addition, the “Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction”:http://www.myerscenter.org/pages/04winners.htm (no, not that Charles Taylor) recently gave its 2005 award to “The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia”:http://www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca/2005/winner2005.htm. I’ve heard complaints about the book from — of all people — the Anglican Bishop of Malaita, but that just sort of makes me more interested. Finally, a whole gaggle of Authentically Respectable Pacific Scholars have put together a nice issue of Common Places Magazine entitled “Pacific Crossings”:http://www.common-place.org/ that is well worth a look.