MediArXiv launches Membership Circle
What is MediArXiv? MediArXiv is a community-run open archive for media, film, and communication studies. Initiated by Open Access in Media Studies and founded in 2019, the preprint server is now governed by a 16-member Steering Committee of academics and librarians...
NECS – Statement on Open Science and Scholarship
At the NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) conference in Gdańsk, the publication committee organizes a workshop on open access/open scholarship on Friday, June 14th, 2019, 13:45-15:30. After a short introduction to the topic by Jeroen Sondervan and...
The Center for Open Science, MediArXiv, and BodoArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Services in the Humanities
Press Release: April 2, 2019 MediArXiv BodoArXiv Charlottesville, VA MediArXiv is a free, community-led digital archive for media, film, and communication research. The mission of MediArXiv is to open up media, film, and communication research to a broader readership...
The difficulty of the plains – 6 theses on open access
The following is a lightly edited text of a keynote address by Malte Hagener at NECS Open Media Studies Post-Conference, 30 June 2018, Hilversum, The Netherlands. When Bertolt Brecht returned to (East) Germany in 1949 he wrote a short poem in which he reflected upon...
MediArXiv project launched!
# Call for Steering Committee Members - MediArXiv The initial Steering Committee is excited to announce the forthcoming launch of MediArXiv, the nonprofit, open archive for media, film & communication studies. The open-access "preprint" server will soon accept...
Open Science and Open Media Studies: Questions on a culture in transition
In the open access week 2018, I wrote a blogpost for the Open Media Studies blog, in conjunction with open acccess Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft on open science and open media Studies. You can find the original post here. Below you find the text, which is...
Interview: Kathleen Fitzpatrick on Open Scholarship, Humanities Commons, and more.
We are thrilled to feature this interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick as the second installment in our new interview series—in which we ask researchers and librarians about their work in, and thinking about, open access in media studies. Fitzpatrick hardly needs an...
Registration Open for NECS Post-Conference: Open Media Studies
The process of scholarly communication is changing dramatically. Digitization of archives, online research methods and tools, and new ways to disseminate research results are developing fast. During the past four annual NECS (Network for Cinema and Media Studies)...
New Learned Society Network: ScholarlyHub
On October 21st the ScholarlyHub initiative launched its website, mission and ideas about developing a new social academic open access network for sharing papers and other scholarly literature. The project is in its incubator stage and needs crowdfunding to further...
The Knowledge Exchange Group has Published a New Report on Open Access Monographs
From the Knowledge Exchange website: This first-of-a-kind report from Knowledge Exchange maps the landscape for open access books in the Knowledge Exchange countries; Finland, Netherlands, UK, France, Denmark and Germany, together with Norway and Austria. The field of...
