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Contribution short abstract:

As co-founder and co-editor of "boasblogs" and editor-in-chief of the journal for medical anthropology "Curare", I will elaborate on two different ways of publishing anthropological knowledge open access and analyze the different requirements, strategies, and challenges involved in each case.

Contribution long abstract:

As co-founder and co-editor of "boasblogs" and editor-in-chief of the medical anthropology journal "Curare", I will present two different ways of publishing anthropological knowledge open access. The founding of boasblogs in 2016 as a series of thematic blogs that address current issues in anthropology while at the same time exploring the public role and social relevance of anthropological knowledge, was intended from the beginning as an open access format in which neither authors nor readers would pay any fees. The boasblogs are supported and financed by various institutions and the character of the website has evolved over time. Curare also aims to function as public anthropology. It was founded in 1978 by the Association for Anthropology and Medicine (AGEM), which aims to build a bridge between an interdisciplinary university public and a non-university public consisting of practitioners of all kinds of medical professions and other people interested in medical anthropology issues. From the beginning, Curare has been published in printed form, financed by AEGM membership fees. With financial support of the German Research Foundation, all previous issues will be digitized and the journal will be converted into an open access journal in the coming months, whereby the print version will be continued - with still unknown consequences for the editorial board, the readership, the publishing house and the AGEM. I will analyze the different preconditions, strategies, and challenges involved in each case in order to ask what lessons can be learned from these processes for similar publication projects.