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Dear Catherine Thanks very much for doing this - much appreciated. Best wishes Rick On 8 Oct Dr Catherine Grant wrote: > Dear Rick, > I just added links to the two sites you host to Film Studies For > Free's listing 'Other Relevant Research/Scholarly Websites' with a > note about what is freely available on both of them. > Best wishes > Catherine > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Loup" <[log in to unmask]> > To: "Catherine Grant" <[log in to unmask]>; "Film Studies for Free" > <[log in to unmask]> > Cc: <[log in to unmask]>; "Andrew Bevan" <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:16 PM > Subject: Re: Online and Open-Access Film and Media Studies Resources > > >> Dear Dr Grant >> >> You might like to look at two services that we host: >> Film & Sound Online, http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/, c600 hours of >> copyright-cleared, downloadable film, video and classical music, free >> to subscribing institutions until at least July 2009 >> and >> NewsFilm Online, http://www.nfo.ac.uk/, c3,000 hours of >> copyright-cleared, downloadable ITN/Reuters news footage and >> associated scripts, free to subscribing institutions until at least >> July 2009 >> >> Please feel free to link to either or both. >> >> I'm copying in Andrew for information. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Rick Loup >> >> >> Dr Catherine Grant wrote: >>> Dear MECCSA listserv subscribers, >>> >>> If you are interested in the emerging issues surrounding online >>> academic publishing in Film and Media Studies, it's a good time to >>> visit the website 'Film Studies For Free' >>> (http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/). This non-commercial site >>> has just posted a substantial discussion of this topic, together with >>> live links to what I believe are all of the currently active, peer- >>> reviewed, Open Access, e-journals in our field for your consideration. >>> >>> If you haven't yet discovered it, 'Film Studies For Free' actively >>> espouses the ethos of Open Access to digital scholarly material and >>> aims to promote good quality, online, film and moving-image studies >>> resources by commenting on them, and by linking to them. The website >>> has a vast, easily accessible, database of relevant online research >>> resources of note, including numerous links to published scholarship >>> or research in multiple forms: from film and media weblogs, through >>> online peer-reviewed journals and quality (free) magazines, to other >>> forms of web-based scholarly writing, as well as online works and >>> studies of film/moving-image research by practice. Just scroll down on >>> the site: all resource-links are listed on the right hand side. >>> >>> 'Film Studies For Free' was launched in August 2008 by me, Catherine >>> Grant, formerly of Film Studies at the University of Kent, now a full- >>> time Film Studies researcher and writer, affiliated with Media and >>> Film at the University of Sussex as a Visiting Research Fellow. >>> >>> If you have a relevant (non-commercial) website or other free, online >>> Film or Media Studies resource that you'd like 'Film Studies For Free' >>> to link to, please email me using either of the two addresses below >>> and I'd be happy to take a look. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Dr Catherine Grant >>> [log in to unmask] >>> [log in to unmask] >>> >> >> -- >> ******************************************* >> Rick Loup >> Multimedia Services Development Officer >> EDINA >> The University of Edinburgh >> Causewayside House >> 158-162 Causewayside >> Edinburgh EH9 1PR >> >> Tel: +44 (0)131 651 1319 >> Fax: +44 (0)131 650 3308 >> >> Email: [log in to unmask] >> >> http://edina.ac.uk >> >> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >> ******************************************* >> > > -- ******************************************* Rick Loup Multimedia Services Development Officer EDINA The University of Edinburgh Causewayside House 158-162 Causewayside Edinburgh EH9 1PR Tel: +44 (0)131 651 1319 Fax: +44 (0)131 650 3308 Email: [log in to unmask] http://edina.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. *******************************************