Crowdfunding Support Request for the Gold Open Access Publication
Accessible Heritage – Enhancing Accessibility to Archaeological Sites
Dear colleagues and friends,
We’re excited to share that our new volume, Accessible Heritage: Enhancing Accessibility to Archaeological Sites (Springer Nature), is nearing publication—and we’re inviting you to be part of making it freely available to everyone.
This book brings together inspiring international research, innovative methods, and real-world case studies that push accessibility and inclusion in archaeological heritage forward. Because openness is central to our mission, we want the publication itself to be Gold Open Access so that anyone, anywhere, can benefit from it.
Several partners (ICAHM, Leiden University, Whincop Archaeology) already contributed with the sum of €10,000. We’re launching a crowdfunding effort to cover the remaining publication cost of € 4,809.70. Any contribution—large or small—will help ensure that this work is accessible worldwide and that the conversation around inclusive heritage continues to grow.
Springer’s reviewers praised the volume for its scientific quality, and it features a rich selection of chapters on accessibility frameworks, indicators, inclusive practices, and global examples. All supporting organisations and partners will be acknowledged in the publication.
Thank you very much for considering joining us in this effort. Your support will help open doors—literally and figuratively—in the ongoing pursuit of inclusive archaeological heritage.
You can pay your contribution on this IBAN Number (ArchaeoConcept Sàrl): CH17 0079 0016 7244 3874 8 (Berner Kantonalbank)
With our best regards,
Cynthia Dunning Thierstein for all the redaction team!
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James, L. 2024. ‘Chapter 1: Politicisation and crisis’, in Experts in the World Heritage regime: Between protection and prestige. Palgrave Macmillan.
Preprint of Chapter 1 available here: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/vaph4
Archaeological Heritage Conservation and Management by Brian Egloff, ICAHM’s past-president, is available as a free to download or to purchase from Archaeopress.
Abstract: Archaeological heritage conservation is all too often highly conflicted and fraught with pitfalls in part due to a poor understanding of the historical and current underpinnings that guide best practice. When heritage places are managed with international principles in mind the sites stand out as evidencing superior outcomes. The International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management expresses concern in the Salalah Guidelines of 2017 with the persistent problems facing archaeological sites that are open to the public. National heritage icons face overwhelming pressure to provide the mainstay of local, national and international tourism economies while in some instances being situated in locations destined for major development or military conflict. Leaders in the field of archaeological heritage conservation, particularly with respect to World Heritage listed properties, assert that economic interests often are at the forefront of management decision making while heritage values are given lesser, if any, consideration. Continuing and future zones of discomfort such as the impact of war, theft of national cultural property, over-development, unconstrained excavation, extreme nationalism, uncontrolled visitation and professionalisation need to be addressed if future generations are to be afforded the same heritage values as are available today.
The Getty Conservation Institute Meeting Report: Archaeology and Conservation Education Roundtable February 12-14, 2017
First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis Handbook and Toolkit
This is the outcome of nearly a decade of field experience gained by ICCROM, and a close partnership between ICCROM, the Prince Claus Fund and the Smithsonian Institution. It has been developed to answer to the increasing need for cultural heritage professionals and humanitarians alike to have a reliable and user-friendly reference that integrates heritage safeguarding into emergency and recovery activities, offering standard operating procedures that are applicable in almost any crisis context.
A survey on the European perception of archaeology and archaeological heritage This booklet was created as part of a European cooperation programme called NEARCH, supported by the European Commission. The NEARCH partnership is designed to create new scenarios for archaeology and heritage; to foster the relationship between contemporary European societies and our realm of expertise. It aims to understand what citizens think and expect of their relation with heritage; involve communities in our processes, our decisions; and understand what it means for us as professionals. We are trying to create contexts to rethink our discipline and open our field to more collective and inclusive practices.