Thanks for the tip. I already know of these two
great online resources as, fortunately, I'm a member of a subscribing
institution. But Film Studies For Free hasn't yet linked to them
as they are not completely 'Open Access'. I happily note that everyone can
'search and browse', but the full riches of these sites are only fully
accessible (i.e. you can only download or playback from the sites) with a
subscription.
I have replied to the full MECCSA list (with
sincere apologies for any irritation caused by my so doing) just so some of
the issues raised by my project can circulate a little more... let's
say, freely. For anyone wanting to know more about Open Access
issues, there's an excellent (open-access) article on these at ... you guessed
it Wikipedia!
Subject: Re: Online and Open-Access Film and Media
Studies Resources PS
> Sorry - NewsFilm Online is available until at least July 2012, not
2009 > > Rick Loup wrote: >> 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] >>>
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