Open Folklore
Open Folklore is a scholarly resource devoted to increasing the number and variety of useful resources, published and unpublished, available for the field of folklore studies and the communities with which folklore scholars partner.
http://www.afsnet.org/?page=OpenFolklore">Open Folklore - American Folklore Society The American Folklore Society (AFS) and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries are creating a prototype of a new scholarly resource called Open Folklore. The vision for this open-access online portal for folklore studies is to make a greater number and variety of useful resources, both published and unpublished, available for the field of folklore studies and the communities with which folklore scholars partner. In its full form, we intend for Open Folklore to be a multi-faceted project that combines digitization and digital preservation of data, publications, educational materials, and scholarship in folklore; promotes open access to these materials; and provides an online search tool to enhance discoverability of relevant, reliable resources for folklore studies. In its initial phase, the partners will construct a prototype to gather feedback from the folklore community to shape its future growth and development. Open Folklore is intended to build on the new developments in digital circulation of folklore materials to respond to these troubling access and preservation problems. While the final shape of this project is still in development, our general plans are as follows: .@openfolklore is a really impressive example of a library partnering with a scholarly society to promote OA http://openfolklore.org http://openfolklore.org/content/discovering-and-accessing-open-access-journals-open-folklore-portal">Discovering and Accessing Open Access Journals with the Open Folklore PortalOur hope and goal is to build this structure in response to input and engagement from the folklore studies community.
About Open Folklore, http://openfolklore.org/about-open-folklore