Anthropoetics at anthropoetics.org

A note on the journal’s move from UCLA to its permanent independent home

Last updated: June 2026

This site is a work in progress. We are continuing to migrate and improve content from the UCLA archive. If you encounter errors, broken links, or missing material, please let us know at editors@anthropoetics.org — we appreciate the help.

Anthropoetics has been freely available online since 1995, when Eric Gans and Wayne Miller of UCLA Humanities Computing established the journal as one of the first peer-reviewed humanities publications on the web. For thirty years, the journal was hosted at anthropoetics.ucla.edu. In 2026, Anthropoetics moved to its permanent independent home at anthropoetics.org.

This page explains what changed, what did not, and what readers and scholars citing the journal need to know.

Why we moved

UCLA Humanities Computing’s personnel and mission evolved over time toward course support, and the unit could no longer actively maintain a dedicated journal infrastructure. Campus IT security constraints also limited what Anthropoetics editors could do independently to maintain, update, and develop the site. When it became clear that long-term hosting at UCLA was not sustainable, the editors arranged independent hosting and undertook a full migration of the archive.

We are grateful to UCLA for thirty years of support. The move to independence is not a departure from that tradition — it is an opportunity to build on it and to implement improvements that had been in mind for years.

Anthropoetics.org maintains redirects from all old anthropoetics.ucla.edu URLs directly.

A home for generative anthropology

Anthropoetics was founded as a journal, but the field of generative anthropology has always been larger than any single publication. The new site is designed to serve as a comprehensive home for GA’s intellectual life — for the journal archive, for the ongoing Chronicles of Love and Resentment, for GASC conference materials, and for the recorded lectures and conversations that have accumulated over more than three decades of annual GA Summer Conferences. We intend this to be a genuinely 21st-century scholarly space: open, searchable, richly documented, and built to last.

Chronicles of Love and Resentment, Eric Gans’s ongoing essay series, is a full participant in this new infrastructure. The installments have always had their own URLs, but for years they existed as a single long, undifferentiated archive — impossible to search, sort, or browse by topic. Each installment now has its own dedicated page with consistent metadata, a permanent permalink, and tagging; the complete archive of over 870 entries is fully searchable and sortable alongside the journal.

What has changed

The site. The static HTML site — later a special Humanities Computing WordPress installation — has been replaced by a new independent WordPress site with improved navigation, full-text search, and a unified archive of all journal issues and Chronicles entries going back to 1995.

Improved organization. GASC materials are organized under a dedicated section. The Chronicles archive — previously a single undifferentiated list — is now browsable by year and tag, with each entry individually searchable. A subject taxonomy and index across the full archive are in progress.

PDFs. The PDFs have been updated with typographic and bibliographic metadata that was absent from the original digital editions — specifically, page numbers, running heads (volume, issue, author, title), and copyright lines. The article text is unchanged in every case. All revisions are documented in our Editorial and Technical Protocols page.

Publication dates. The original UCLA site organized articles by issue rather than by date; the 2016 WordPress migration assigned all articles an arbitrary import date rather than a publication date. Publication dates on the new site have been reconstructed from each article’s volume and season metadata — the same information that appears in the citation — using the following conventions: Spring and Spring/Summer issues –> June 1; Summer –> July 1; Fall –> October 1; Winter–> December 1. Where an article spans two academic years (e.g., “1998/1999”), the first year is used. These are approximate dates, accurate to the issue but not to the day. They are used for sorting and display; they do not affect how articles should be cited.

Contributor roles. The original site had no structured mechanism for recording contributor roles beyond authorship. Translators, co-authors, and editors of collected volumes appeared inconsistently — sometimes in article headers, sometimes in running text, sometimes not at all. The new site formalizes contributor roles as distinct metadata fields, ensuring that translators and other contributors are consistently credited and machine-readable. This affects display, citation generation, and future interoperability with repository and bibliographic systems.

Archive indexes. The UCLA site maintained two complete article indexes: an author-sorted list (aparts) and a chronological archive page. The aparts index was a genuinely useful resource — regularly linked and crawled from 2017 through late 2025 — but both pages were static, unsearchable, and could not be sorted or filtered interactively. The new site replaces this approach with full-text search (available at the top of every page) and a planned Browse by Topic taxonomy that spans journal articles and Chronicles entries alike. Readers who relied on aparts to browse the complete article list will find search and the topics index a more capable replacement; structured metadata also supports discovery through Google Scholar and other external indexes. A note at /aparts/ explains the retirement and links to the replacements.

Citation guidance. Each published piece — journal articles and Chronicles installments alike — now carries its own citation guidance, giving readers a ready-made reference in a standard format. The Anthropoetics Zotero library is being updated with current URLs and will be available for direct import shortly.

Metadata and interoperability. Anthropoetics has invested in structured metadata designed to meet the standards of today’s international scholarly communication environment. This includes Google Scholar, Dublin Core, and Schema.org metadata across the archive; clear publication statements to support author self-archiving; and metadata formatted for direct ingest into institutional and disciplinary repositories. Authors who are required by their institutions or funding bodies to deposit their work in a repository will find that the metadata on each article page is ready to use. ORCID ID integration for authors is underway, supporting interoperability with repository deposit workflows and author identification systems.

Accessibility. Accessibility improvements are ongoing, with reference to European Accessibility Act standards and WCAG 2.1 guidelines. Work underway includes alt text for images across the journal archive — absent from the original site — as well as accessible color contrast, keyboard navigation, and semantic HTML structure.

What has not changed

All article and Chronicles text is identical to the original published versions
All authorship attribution is unchanged; publication dates have been reconstructed from issue metadata (see above)
The journal remains fully open access — no registration, no paywall, no fees
The ISSN is unchanged: 1083-7264 (journal) · 3066-6848 (Chronicles of Love and Resentment)
Anthropoetics does not use DOIs

Model citations

Scholars who have cited the journal using the old UCLA URLs (anthropoetics.ucla.edu) need not revise published citations. Anthropoetics.org maintains redirects from all old URLs directly; if any link doesn’t resolve, contact editors@anthropoetics.org and we’ll make sure it’s mapped. Authentic copies of the old site are also preserved at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

For new citations and for updating reference lists, the preferred URL base going forward is:

https://anthropoetics.org/

Each article and Chronicles entry now carries a ready-to-use citation in standard formats. The Anthropoetics Zotero library will include both the original UCLA URLs and updated anthropoetics.org URLs; users can verify authenticity via the Wayback Machine.

Journal article:
Gans, Eric. “The Unique Source of Religion and Morality.” Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology I, no. 1 (1995). https://anthropoetics.org/journal/ap-vol-1/ap0101/gans

Chronicles of Love and Resentment:
Gans, Eric. “Toujours l’amour.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, No. 20, December 9, 1995. Anthropoetics. https://anthropoetics.org/chronicles/chronicle20/

Preservation and archival commitments

Anthropoetics takes its responsibilities to the bibliographic record seriously. The following preservation programs are active:

Library of Congress — Openly Available Serials Web Archive. Anthropoetics has participated in this program since 2020; the archive includes all issues going back to 1995. All installments of Chronicles of Love and Resentment were added to the archive in 2026. Issues are subject to a one-year public embargo; older issues are available online and in the reading room of the Library of Congress. Content archived under our former UCLA address is permanently preserved and will not be altered; new crawls will capture content at anthropoetics.org, creating a continuous chronological record across the transition. The Library of Congress has confirmed that archiving will continue under our new domain. See: https://www.loc.gov/collections/openly-available-serials-web-archive/about-this-collection/

US Copyright Office — electronic deposit. Anthropoetics is among a select group of journals invited to participate in mandatory electronic deposit and preservation with the US Copyright Office — a distinction that reflects the journal’s place in the scholarly record. In principle, all journal articles since Volume 1 have been submitted for deposit. The Copyright Office has confirmed that deposit will continue under our new domain.

Internet Archive — Wayback Machine. Authentic copies of the journal are preserved at the Internet Archive. We are exploring participation in the Archive-It program for more comprehensive coverage.

Transition Documentation. All post-publication interventions — PDF revisions, metadata additions, URL updates, and other changes to existing content — are documented in our Editorial and Technical Protocols page. This living document is updated as new interventions are made. We believe that transparent, documented record-keeping is both an ethical obligation and a contribution to the long-term reliability of open-access scholarship. For the principles governing these interventions, see the Editorial and Technical Protocols section below.

Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the following individuals and institutions whose support made thirty years of UCLA hosting possible, and whose guidance has shaped the journal’s path forward:

Eric Gans — founder of Anthropoetics and an early adopter of internet technologies who immediately grasped the significance of web-based scholarship.

Wayne Miller, UCLA Humanities Computing — worked with Gans to establish the journal online, with advice from the UCLA Library.

Katie Masterson and Annelie Rugg, UCLA Humanities Computing — administrators who supported the journal over the course of its UCLA years.

Lucian Tucker, UCLA Humanities Computing — migrated the original static HTML site to a WordPress installation in 2016.

David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities at UCLA — provided funding for the 2016 WordPress migration.

Reem Hanna-Harwell, Associate Dean, UCLA Humanities — and the current staff of UCLA Humanities Computing, whose cooperation and good will made the transition possible.

Kenneth Mayers — for many conversations about the future of the journal and the possibilities of independent scholarly publishing.

UCLA — institutional home of Anthropoetics from 1995 to 2026.

The editors also especially wish to acknowledge the scholars who have published in Anthropoetics over the course of its first thirty years. They have contributed not only their research but their confidence — choosing to publish in an open-access journal, at a time when the conventions of scholarly communication were still being worked out, as a statement of belief in generative anthropology as a new and necessary way of thinking about human origins and culture. Their participation has been integral to whatever the journal has become.

The editors are grateful to the many colleagues, readers, and supporters who have contributed to Anthropoetics over its thirty years in ways large and small. Any omissions from the above list reflect the limitations of memory rather than the depth of our gratitude.

Editorial and Technical Protocols

All post-publication changes to the Anthropoetics archive are governed by the principles set out in our Editorial and Technical Protocols page. That document records every intervention made after original publication — PDF revisions, metadata additions, text reconstructions from the Internet Archive — together with the principles that authorize them and the dates on which they were made. It is a living document, updated as new interventions occur. Scholars who wish to verify the integrity of any published text are encouraged to consult it.

For questions about the transition, contact the editors at editors@anthropoetics.org.