Open Folklore is a partnership between the American Folklore Society, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, and IU Digital Library Program to make folklore studies scholarship widely accessible online for free. It aggregates folklore-related content from various open access sources and repositories using harvesting tools to provide a centralized search portal. The goal is to increase the range and diversity of reliable folklore research resources available to both scholars and communities.

1. www.openfolklore.org
Jason Baird Jackson with Julie Bobay, Timothy Lloyd, Jennifer Laherty, Garett Montanez, and Moria Smith

2. What is Open
Folklore?
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3. Answer #1
Open Folklore is a manifestation of the open
access movement in the discipline of folklore
studies (folkloristics).

4. Open-access (OA) literature is digital,
online, free of charge, and free of most
copyright and licensing restrictions.
What makes it possible is the internet
and the consent of the author or
copyright-holder.
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6. CC BY 2.0 Generic Image by Sreejith K via Fl
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8. courtesy of Amy J. Jackson

9. Answer #2
Open Folklore is a partnership of the
American Folklore Society, the Indiana
University Bloomington Libraries and the IU
Digital Library Program.

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11. Answer #3
Open Folklore is an effort to make available
a greater range and diversity of reliable
scholarly resources in folklore studies.

12. Buckets and Buckets by Josh Kenser CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Generic http://www.flickr.com/
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Leveraging the power of
multiple buckets
Institutional Repositories
Open Access Journals
Open Access Book Projects
HathiTrust Digital Library
Archive-It (Internet Archive)
and Others....

13. Answer #4
Open Folklore is a Drupal-based
scholarly portal that will serve folklore
scholars and the communities with
whom they collaborate.

14. OF News
Websites
Books
Journals
Grey Literature

15. Strategy #1
Curate, Educate, Link
Guidance on Genres
and Resources
Resource Links

16. Your
Search
Here
Strategy #2
Harvest and Search

17. Harvesting Folklore Scholarship via
Open Archives Initiative Standards and
Tools

18. An OF Search
Record
Clickable
Author Name
Search
Clickable
Refinement
Keywords
Tools
This Takes You
Right to It.

19. Answer #5
Open Folklore is an experiment in re-
imagining the work of scholarly
publishing, scholarly societies, and
academic libraries.

20. Thank you!
www.openfolklore.org