The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has become a highly relevant source of information for a new generation of open access journals – and we are excited to announce that NECSUS is now one of the more than 15.000 journals indexed by the DOAJ. The community-curated online directory indexes and provides access to high […]
Responding to the current limitations on access to academic research materials, the Public Books Database has compiled a list featuring academic presses with freely accessible titles online. Currently featuring over fifty academic presses from the Columbia University Press to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the list will be updated continuously as additional materials are […]
The online platform Open Access in Media Studies has announced the launch of the new project MediArXiv. MediArXiv is the new open archive for media, film, and communication studies, and will be launched in early 2019 on the Open Science Framework platform. MediArXiv provides a non-profit platform for scholars to upload their working papers, pre-prints, […]
We are happy to announce that, in addition to the digital overview of past journal issues on the website, NECSUS now has a new online repository that provides open access to PDF downloads of previous journal volumes. All of the volumes published by the journal since 2012 are currently made available here, and it will continue […]
We are happy to announce that NECSUS has joined the Open Humanities Press (OHP) collective. OHP is an international community of scholars, editors, and readers with a focus on critical and cultural theory. Operating as an independent volunteer initiative since 2006, OHP promotes open access scholarship in journals, books, and explores new forms of scholarly […]
The website Open Access in Media Studies is now online. It is maintained and curated by Jeroen Sondervan in collaboration with the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). The website and blog aim to inform about and promote open access publishing in the field of media studies.
The open access journal The Cine-Files has recently published a special dossier on cinematic affect. The dossier was edited by Anne Rutherford (Western Sydney University) and includes an essay by NECSUS editor Patricia Pisters on Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010). The Cine-Files is an online scholarly journal of cinema studies produced within the cinema studies program at […]
Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy) has joined the growing list of partner institutions that support NECSUS and its efforts to continue providing gold-level open access to all of its content. NECSUS publishes research that matters and that improves the understanding of media and culture inside and outside the academic community. The NECSUS crowdsourcing campaign […]
Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM), an institute of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany), has joined the growing list of partner institutions that support NECSUS and its efforts to continue providing gold-level open access to all of its content. NECSUS publishes research that matters and that improves the understanding of media and culture inside and outside […]
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany) has joined the growing list of partner institutions that support NECSUS and its efforts to continue providing gold-level open access to all of its content. NECSUS publishes research that matters and that improves the understanding of media and culture inside and outside the academic community. The NECSUS crowdsourcing campaign continues with the […]
SPUI25 in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam is hosting a workshop on open access publishing on 17 April 2015 at 14.30h. Using NECSUS as a core case study, questions concerning the future of scholarly publishing will be addressed. NECSUS editors Annie van den Oever and Patricia Pisters serve as […]
Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany) has joined the growing list of partner institutions that support NECSUS and its efforts to continue providing gold-level open access to all of its content. NECSUS publishes research that matters and that improves the understanding of media and culture inside and outside the academic community. The NECSUS crowdsourcing campaign continues with the […]
NECSUS editor Patricia Pisters has published an audiovisual essay titled Emoticons in the open access videographic journal [in]Transition. In her words Emoticons could be considered as a personal and experimental footnote to the theoretical observations in The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Contemporary Screen Culture (Stanford University Press, 2012). The audiovisual essay can be accessed […]
Perhaps no war has stirred the human imagination more deeply than the so-called ‘Great War’. From William Wellman’s Wings (1927) to Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957), Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004), and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse (2011), filmmakers have been reimagining the Great War in distinctly different yet captivating ways, profoundly […]
NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies is an international peer reviewed open access publication for innovative and cutting-edge research and writing across the whole field of cinema, television, and (new) media studies. NECSUS is published by Amsterdam University Press and was founded by NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies). The journal maintains a ‘gold’ […]
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The online version of NECSUS is published in Open Access and all issue contents are free and accessible to the public.
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The online repository media/rep/ provides PDF downloads to aid referencing. Volumes are also indexed in the DOAJ. Please consider the environmental costs of printing versus reading online.
Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Belén Vidal
King’s College London
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University