open folklore

a collaborative project developed by the American Folklore Society (AFS), and the Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries (IUL)

About

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Open Folklore serves as a new model for collection development and scholarly communication for building digital collections of the future. Besides providing open access to research materials, the portal at the Open Folklore project offers full-text searching of these materials and allows folklore scholars and enthusiasts to identify and select reliable scholarly content, differentiating it from a sea of popular, and sometimes, unreliable, “Googalized” online content. The Open Folklore project also actively works to encourage partnerships, by encouraging its partners to collaboratively digitize materials, place them in open-access digital repositories and share them with the folklore community. The project’s website is located at .

Awards Won

Title Year
Outstanding Collaboration Citation

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This Outstanding Collaboration Citation recognizes and encourages collaborative problem-solving efforts in the areas of acquisition, access, management, preservation, or archiving of library materials. It recognizes a demonstrated benefit from actions, services, or products that improve and benefit providing and managing library collections.
 2011 - Recipient(s)

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