Arts and humanities
Open access resources for Arts and humanities
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Affirmations of the modern | Affirmations: of the modern seeks to stir up modernism studies by publishing work that unsettles the empiricist consensus and pursues unusual, ambitious, and theoretically adventurous paths around the field. |
| Apparatus is a peer-reviewed academic journal in open access dealing with film, media and digital cultures of Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe – current and historical. | ||
| Online art and culture magazine. | ||
| A Feminist Film Journal | ||
| An open-access digital journal for the visual arts | ||
| BST publishes research into artistic practice that engages with digital technologies, particularly as these relate to bodily interaction and creativity, and in multi-disciplinary perspectives. | ||
| British Art Studies provides an innovative space for new peer-reviewed scholarship on all aspects of British art, architecture, and visual culture in their most diverse and international contexts. | ||
| Web presence of the crowdsourced People’s Archive, recording British society and subcultures through documentary photography since the 1930s. | ||
| Access thousands of the British Library's global recordings, including music, drama and literature, oral history, languages and dialects, wildlife, and birdsong. | ||
| C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings is the journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication, and circulation of 21st-century writings. | ||
| Comparative Literature: East & West addresses all aspects and phases of Comparative Literature. It seeks to serve as a platform to promote scholarship of Comparative Literature in the East and West and encourage the exchange of ideas and information. | ||
| Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research is an academic journal for border-crossing cultural research, including cultural studies as well as other interdisciplinary and transnational currents. | ||
| Open access articles on Dance. | ||
| Open access articles on all aspects of the dramatic arts. | ||
| Discover inspiring cultural heritage from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives. Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for | ||
| Film-Philosophy is an international journal dedicated to philosophically reviewing film studies, philosophical aesthetics, and world cinema. | ||
| Open access articles. | ||
| A peer-reviewed journal for students working in culture and the arts | ||
| A biannual, peer-reviewed, academic journal for scholars of film, media and screen studies. | ||
| Open access articles. | ||
| Open access, international journal of computer game research. | ||
| These collections represent a sample of the Ransom Center's diverse holdings in literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts. | ||
| Heritage Science is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research covering scientific, mathematical and computational methods and analysis of objects, materials, artefacts and artworks of cultural and historical significance in the context of heritage and conservation studies. | ||
| Image [&] Narrative is a peer-reviewed e-journal on visual narratology and word and image studies in the broadest sense of the term. It does not focus on a narrowly defined corpus or theoretical framework, but questions the mutual shaping of literary and visual cultures. | ||
| Imaginations is a multilingual, open-access journal of international visual cultural studies. It is published twice yearly and is double-blind peer-reviewed. | ||
| A peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies. | ||
| This journal publishes articles, short texts of various genres including poetry and ficto-theory, images, sound, and other multimedia content. | ||
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International Association for Media and Communication Research |
Open access journals from IAMCR, a leading worldwide professional organisation in the field of media and communication research. | |
| Open access academic journal covering all aspects of media and communication studies. | ||
| The International Journal of Welsh Writing in English is the premier journal for current research on Welsh literature in the English language, Welsh drama and performance in English, translation, cultural studies and related areas. | ||
| The Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is a peer reviewed Open Access journal to contribute to the discussions within this growing field. Global exchanges in the art and media world call for transversal theoretical revisions of national, international and regional ideas of cultural framings. | ||
| A peer-reviewed publication that results from a commitment of the Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR) to promote knowledge, research and artworks in the field of the Arts. | ||
| Analysing media in its social and political context since 1974, with particular regard to class, race and gender. | ||
| Freely accessible studies on people’s knowledge, experiences and perceptions of data. | ||
| A free, open-access journal for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists addressing visual culture. | ||
| MaHKUscript. Journal of Fine Art Research is a peer-reviewed international platform for artists, curators, theorists, research students and educators who consciously integrate research in their working practice. | ||
| Anthologies of open access articles in media studies, selected for a university audience. | ||
| Open access forum for sharing ideas and expertise. Publishes writing by "Thought-leaders, journalists, experts, and individuals with unique perspective". | ||
| The journal Music and Arts in Action (MAiA) emerges from international, cross-disciplinary work that takes a wider, holistic approach in researching the dynamic role of music and the arts in social life and cultural experience. | ||
| Royalty-free sheet music and recordings, free to download and use in films, YouTube videos, games and more. | ||
| An open access multimedia platform offering free video content in all genres and styles, from ballet, baroque and butoh, to jazz, hip-hop and tango. | ||
| Over 1,000 free films including animation, classics, independents, film noir, westerns, etc. | ||
| The Open Library of Humanities journal publishes internationally-leading, rigorous and peer-reviewed scholarship across the humanities disciplines: from classics, theology and philosophy, to modern languages and literatures, film and media studies, anthropology, political theory and sociology. | ||
| Open Screens is the open-access online journal of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. The scope of the journal is international and its vision is inter-disciplinary. | ||
| Open Access books on journalism and media | ||
| Open access articles. | ||
| Images and articles from contemporary British and Irish photographers. | ||
| Free online journalism, criticism, and photography from the US. Includes reading lists on decolonisation and black history. | ||
| An Open Access Visual Studies Journal is an experimental, non-canonical platform for the discussion of visual culture from diverse histories and geographies. | ||
| A searchable database of ‘grey literature’ on arts for health practice from 1996 onwards. Most are free to download. | ||
| A peer-reviewed online journal from the University of Bremen, Germany. | ||
| The Journal is intended as an opportunity for interdisciplinary and intercultural approach opened to pedagogical, psychological, sociological and political analyses in the field of intercultural and artistic education. | ||
| A growing collection of articles on dance and other performing arts. | ||
| Open access journal for the history of photography, film, television and multimedia. | ||
| A peer-reviewed publication of practice research in film and screen media. | ||
| Digital choreographic archive. | ||
| An online research journal that publishes scholarly articles on British and modern international art, and on museum practice today. | ||
| The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is an open access, open peer review academic journal dedicated to comics scholarship. | ||
| The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry centres on the poetic writings that have appeared in Britain and Ireland since the late 1950s under various categorizations. | ||
| The Scottish Journal of Performance is an open-access peer reviewed journal | ||
| Open access repository of research from this music and dance conservatoire. | ||
| Films, photographs and sound recordings from the United Nations. | ||
| Over 140,000 images from over 300 art collections, free for educational use. | ||
| Free, open access books in dance and theatre. | ||