About
Search
About CSeARCH
CSeARCH: the Cultural Studies e-Archive
CSeARCH stands for 'Cultural Studies electronic ARCHive'. It is a free, open access archive for cultural studies research literature and related materials, and is provided as a further supplement to the Culture Machine e-journal.
The idea behind CSeARCH is to create for cultural studies an archive similar to arXiv.org. The latter is the physics 'e-print' archive set up by Paul Ginsparg in 1991. Originally based at Los Alamos before moving to Cornell University in December 2001, arXiv.org has carried over 356,500 submissions, has deposits of a further 54,000 a year, and receives 270,000 connections daily. It works as follows: whenever a physics scholar is about to publish a text, they send a pre-print copy to this archive. This pre-print is then made available to any researcher, scholar or student who wants it, free of charge. All they have to do is simply download the file from the archive.
One of the potential consequences of the Cultural Studies electronic archive is the possibility of making all the cultural studies and related research literature - both past and present - freely available to researchers, teachers and students, on a world-wide basis, regardless of how much particular publishers want to charge for their books and journals, and of how much individual institutions and libraries can afford to pay for them.
For further information about open access archiving in general see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
For more information about this archive in particular see Gary Hall's 'The Cultural Studies e-Archive Project (Original Pirate Copy)', Culture Machine 5, 2003 at:
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j005/Articles/hall.htm
The archive presented here is an early working version intended to provide access to the main archive functions. Comments and feedback are greatfully received on the archive itself or any technical issues encountered. Please forward to
- Gary Hall, Academic Director
- Steve Green, Technical Director
