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CSeARCH, the Cultural Studies e-Archive

Open access publishing has been operating successfully within the sciences
for over 15 years now. Yet whereas other online movements and practices,
such as creative commons, free software, open source and peer-to-peer,
have been regarded as providing models for new regimes of culture, new
kinds of networked institutions, even for the future organisation of
society, the open access movement has had comparatively little impact on
the humanities to date.

By making the research literature freely available to researchers,
teachers, students, investigative journalists, policy makers, union
organisers, NGOs, political activists, protest groups and the general
public alike, on a worldwide basis, open access is seen as having the
potential to break down some of the barriers between the university and
the rest of society, as well as between countries in the so-called
‘developed' and ‘undeveloped' worlds. It is also held as helping to
overcome the ‘Westernization' of the research literature through the
creation of a far more decentralised and distributed research community.

So why, given the often radical nature of the content of their work, have
those in the humanities, and to a lesser extent the social sciences, been
so reluctant to challenge what John Willinsky in The Access Principle
refers to as the ‘complacent and comfortable habits of scholarly
publishing'? Why have those in the sciences apparently proved the more
institutionally, socially and politically progressive in this respect?

In an attempt to go at least some way toward addressing this situation,
contributions are sought to the CSeARCH open access archive for research
and publications in cultural studies and related fields: communication and
media studies, continental philosophy, literary, critical and cultural
theory, new media, visual culture, psychoanalysis, post-colonial theory
and so forth.

You can find CSeARCH, the Cultural Studies e-Archive, at
www.culturemachine.net/csearch. It is not-for-profit and free to download
from and upload to.

Contact information: Dr Gary Hall, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural
Studies, Middlesex University, www.garyhall.info; Co-editor of Culture
Machine, www.culturemachine.net; Director of the Cultural Studies Open
Access Archive, www.culturemachine.net/csearch.

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