Berghahn Open Access
Berghahn Books supports practical open access policies that help make scholarship available to a broader audience in a sustainable way.
In addition to offering gold open access options that uphold publication mandates instituted by our authors' funding partners, we also participate in initiatives, such as Knowledge Unlatched, which provide collective funding opportunities for selected titles.
Additional information regarding our open access policies can be found here, under the “Open Access” tab. If open access status is required for your publication, please contact your Berghahn editor.
Open Access Books
A selection of more than 200 Open Access Books available on this site
Browse the full list of Open Access books here
Berghahn Open Access Collections
Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year we add 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As libraries and institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the publication costs of these books, making them available as Open Access.
The collection includes titles from the Forced Migration series as well as the Integration and Conflict Studies and the Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology series, among others.
Berghahn Open Anthropology
Berghahn Open Anthro is a subscribe-to-open model being piloted by Berghahn Books in partnership with Libraria, a group of researchers who are also supporting a number of other publishers hoping to adopt this model should the pilot prove successful.
This model was developed in part through a 2019 ground-breaking collaborative meeting between publishers, libraries, funders, and OA experts that was held at MIT. BOA-S2O is in its third year and has added a new journal, Social Anthropology, in 2022, and Ethnologia Europaea in 2024.
Researchers can support the BOA-S2O initiative by contacting their libraries directly or filling out a recommendation form.
For more details, please read our Frequently Asked Questions.
The 2025 collection includes the following 16 journals:
Open Access Journals
Editors
Patrick Laviolette, Masaryk University, Czechia
Alexandra Schwell, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, European Studies
Editors
Dimitra Kofti, Panteion University, Greece
Arne Harms, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Leonardo Schiocchet, Charles University, Czech Republic
Martin Fotta, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Book Reviews Editor
Magdalena Craciun, University of Bucharest, Romania
Assistant Editor
Ville Laakkonen, Tampere University, Finland
Subjects: Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology, Ethnography
Editors:
Dr. Pardis Shafafi, CNRS, Paris
Dr. Samira Marty, University of Bayreuth
Subjects:Applied Anthropology
Editors
Jennifer R. Cash, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Aleksandar Bošković, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, European Studies
Editor in Chief: Soheila Shahshahani, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
Subjects: Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies
Editors
Liana Chua, University of Cambridge
Natalia Buitron, University of Cambridge
Subjects: Anthropology
Editor in Chief: Erella Grassiani, University of Amsterdam
Managing Editor: Dastan Abdali, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Editors
Tessa Diphoorn, Utrecht University
Ana Ivasiuc, University College Dublin
Linda Musariri, University of Amsterdam
Aditi Saraf, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Atreyee Sen, University of Copenhagen
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies
Editors: Jean-Christophe Marcel
Subjects: Sociology, Anthropology
Founding Editors
Paige West, Columbia University
Dan Brockington, University of Sheffield
Editors
Amelia Moore, University of Rhode Island
Jerry Jacka, University of Colorado Boulder
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Geography
Managing and Lead Editor: Luisa Steur, University of Amsterdam
Editor-at-Large: Don Kalb, University of Bergen
Subjects: Anthropology
Editor: Narmala Halstead, University of Sussex
Subjects: Anthropology, Law
Editors
Penny Welch, Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton
Susan Wright, Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus
Subjects: Education, Social Sciences
Editors
Mette Louise Berg, University College London
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, University College London
Tatiana Thieme, University College London
Creative Encounters Editor: Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, University of Oxford
Book Reviews Editors
Nassim Majidi, Samuel Hall
Olivia Sheringham, Birkbeck University of London
Editorial Assistant: Hend Aly, University College London
Editors:
Alison K. Brown, University of Aberdeen
Conal McCarthy, Victoria University of Wellington
Subjects: Anthropology, Museum Studies
Editors
Simon Coleman, University of Toronto
Sondra L. Hausner, University of Oxford
Reviews Editors
Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Seville
Eugenia Roussou, CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon
Editors
Liudmila Nikanorova, The Open University, UK
Galina Belolyubskaya, University of Calgary, Canada
Subjects: Anthropology, Siberian Studies
Editors:
Martin Holbraad, University College London
Anni Kajanus, University of Helsinki
Hans Steinmüller, London School of Economics
Subjects: Anthropology, Political and Social Theory, Social Sciences
Open Access Journal Articles
Additionally, there are a number of journal articles currently available as open access.