CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
CULTURE MACHINE
http://www.culturemachine.net
Culture Machine is looking for contributions to a digital archive for
media and cultural studies texts and related materials. The archive,
called CSeARCH (which stands for Cultural Studies e-Archive), is
completely free to both download from and upload into.
What's more, recent figures suggest that research published as 'open
access' is between two and four times more likely to be read and cited
than if it is just published in print-on-paper form.
You can find CSeARCH at:
http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch
This will let you browse the archive as well as read and download its
contents for free. It already contains over 500 books, book chapters,
journal articles,
interviews, lectures and so on, from Abbas and Agamben, through McRobbie
and Poster, to Williams and Zizek.
To upload work into the archive go to the 'Submit' page. Fill in the
brief details and you'll then be sent a login name and password via
e-mail together with a direct
link. Click on the link and you'll be there - no need to login at that
point the first time. (The password just ensures no one but you can edit
your entries.) It's really
fast and easy.
We realise it's going to take a little time to grow. But one of the
ideas behind open access archives is that if everyone deposits a digital
copy of their published material in the archive, then it means that all
the media and cultural studies research is going to be available for
students, teachers, lecturers and researchers to use anywhere in the
world, for free, for ever (as opposed to being restricted just to those
individuals and institutions who can afford to pay for access to it in
the form of journal subscriptions, books cover prices, interlibrary
loans, photocopying charges etc., as is the case now).
Obviously anything that is already in digital form, be it Word, pdf and
so on, can be uploaded easily. If anyone does have early media and
cultural studies texts, including out of print books, book chapters,
journal editions or journal articles they can scan in or otherwise make
available, that would be great, too.
However, the idea is also to include recent and even current work, both
already published and that which is awaiting publication.
More information about the archive, including how to include books, book
chapters and journal articles which have already been published
elsewhere, or which are
due to be so in the future, without infringing copyright, is available
in:
'The Cultural Studies e-Archive Project (Original Pirate Copy)', Culture
Machine 5, 2003
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j005/Articles/hall.htm
But any questions or problems just send me an email:
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Cheers, Gary
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ABOUT CULTURE MACHINE
Culture Machine is an umbrella term for a series of experiments in
culture and theory.
The Culture Machine journal http://www.culturemachine.net
The Culture Machine Reviews section
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/bk_rev.htm
The Culture Machine InterZone
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/InterZone/index.htm
The Culture Machine book series (published by Berg and including City of
Panic by Paul Virilio)
The Culture Machine open access archive CSeARCH
http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch
Culture Machine has an International Advisory Board which includes
Geoffrey Bennington, Robert Bernasconi, Lawrence Grossberg, Peggy Kamuf,
Alphonso Lingis, Meaghan Morris, Paul Patton, Mark Poster, Avital
Ronell, Nicholas Royle and Kenneth Surin.
For more information, visit the Culture Machine site at:
http://www.culturemachine.net
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Dr Gary Hall
Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University
Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net
My website http://www.garyhall.info
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