[csaa-forum] Culture Machine New Project: Call for Contributions

[Gary Hall]

Call for Participation

Culture Machine is looking for contributions to a digital archive for
cultural studies texts and related materials. The archive, called
CSeARCH, which stands for
Cultural Studies e-Archive, is completely free to download from and
upload into - there are no subscription fees or access charges. You can
find it 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 Bowman, through Graham
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
very fast and easy.

We realise it's going to take a little time to grow. But one of the
ideas behind open access archives of this kind is that if everyone
deposits a digital copy of their
published material in the archive - and this includes their own current
research, not just early out of print material from the history of
cultural studies or from 'big
names' (although CSeARCH contains those as well) - then it means that,
in this case, all the cultural studies research is 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 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:

gary.hall at connectfree.co.uk

Cheers, Gary


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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
Founder of the Cultural Studies e-Archive
http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch
My website http://www.garyhall.info

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