scholar-led initiatives: History and recent examples from Cultural and Media Studies

Overview of scholar-led initiatives (journals, book publishers, and consortia / network initiatives) in the Humanities and Social Sciences, with a focus on Cultural and Media Studies.

H5P-Timeline “Scholar-led Initiatives in the Humanities and Social Sciences” by Tobias Steiner is licensed under a CC BY SA 4.0 International Licence. DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/bwqyw-k5k34

A bibliography of research on scholar-led publishing is available as a dedicated Zotero collection.

List of initiatives below, navigate to: scholar-led journals  |  scholar-led publishers


scholar-led journals

1972

1980/1996

1985

1990

1994

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2021

scholar-led publishers

1986

1992

1994

1995

1996

2005

2006

2008

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2019

2021


Also see the Radical Open Access Collective’s ‘Directory of Academic-led Presses’, at https://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/directory/

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CC BY 4.0 scholar-led initiatives: History and recent examples from Cultural and Media Studies by Tobias Steiner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.