 "Oral Tradition" spans a number of academic fields and disciplines, including, folklore, cultural anthropology, social anthropology, ethnography, ethnomusicologylinguistics, classics, and comparative literature.From 1986 till the end of 2006, "Oral Tradition" was published by Slavica Publishers, with an additional online edition through Project MUSE from 2003 onward.However, both of these publication venues are subscription-based and for that reason they unavoidably excluded a substantial segment of the journal's potential readership, particularly non-western academics and institutions.