Open Access Arts and Humanities Journals

The Global Media Journal publishes works that assess existing media structures and practices, such as global media concentration, globalization of TV genres, global media and consumer culture, the role of media in democratic governance and global justice, propaganda, media reception and cultural practice, commercialization of news, new media technologies, media regulations, regional media, alternative media, and other timely issues.

The first issue of Global Media Journal, devoted to exploring the world of communication, was launched online in fall of 2002. Since then, this ground breaking publication has steadily and firmly established itself as a journal to address diverse interests of students, teachers, scholars, researchers, and institutions engaged in international activities, particularly.

Since its inauguration, Global Media Journal has been available to interested individuals for free (open access). This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Find the Australian Edition of the journal here.

&&& Publishing is an independent purveyor of theoretically informed, publicly engaged publications, circumventing academic/popular distinctions in order to open up a more accessible platform for public intellectual practice. As a publishing platform operated by The New Centre for Research & Practice, our aim is to shape new forms of knowledge production and circulation within and against both past and present modes of intellectual production, distribution, consumption.

&&& Journal is a peer-reviewed, academic journal focused upon new thinking in art & curatorial theory, critical philosophy, media & technological theory, social & political thought and transdisciplinary studies. The journal approaches the space of knowledge as a laboratory for navigating the links between thought and action, while bootstrapping the conventional role of the Arts and Sciences to construct new forms of research & practice alongside, within, and between the existing disciplines.

Watercooler Journal is Columbia College Chicago’s online academic publication that focuses on the sharpest TV analysis from students to content creators and papers to multimedia… gifs included.

Watercooler Journal is here to curate that idea, to form a gallery where hierarchy of form doesn’t dictate quality, and to foster a community where papers, multimedia, and social media work in harmony to stir academia with refreshing force—from Microsoft Word to Imgur to Tumblr and back again. This journey has brought us to what Watercooler Journal is today–a radically multimodal exploration of TV texts and audiences through a mashup of formal analysis and fan-made works. If it’s digital, it’s eligible

Welcome to The STEAM Journal, a transdisciplinary, international, theory-practice, peer-reviewed, academic, open access, online journal with a focus on the intersection of the sciences and the arts. The STEAM Journal integrates perspectives from a variety of contexts and fields. STEAM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.

This publication features the bridges between Science, Technology, Engineering Mathematics (STEM) and the Arts. In this context, the journal acts as a forum for open dialogue of STEAM as well as expanding the body of transdisciplinary knowledge. The STEAM Journal is a hub for scholars and practitioners of many disciplines who wish to provide commentary, exchange ideas and inform policy and practice of STEAM. Although there is a long history of the interaction of the sciences with the arts, STEAM is a new acronym that has emerged over the last decade and has a multitude of definitions and approaches. Some of the main themes of STEAM are fostering innovation, the need for twenty-first century skills, and divergent and convergent thinking. The STEAM Journal welcomes a diverse dialogue on the many aspects of STEAM.

The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an inter-national, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal for the identification, publication and dissemination of artistic research and its methodologies, from all arts disciplines. With the aim of displaying practice in a manner that respects artists' modes of presentation, JAR abandons the traditional journal article format and offers its contributors a dynamic online canvas where text can be woven together with image, audio and video. These research documents called ‘expositions’ provide a unique reading experience while fulfilling the expectations of scholarly dissemination.

The Journal is underpinned by the Research Catalogue (RC) a searchable, documentary database of artistic research. Anyone can compose an exposition and add it to the RC using the online editor and suitable expositions can be submitted to the editorial board for peer-review and publication in JAR.

Ctrl-Z is an ideas network, exhibition space and events machine, fostering and promoting contemporary humanities research into the broad areas of media, art, culture and philosophy.

Committed to the dissemination of ideas and interests across specialist divides, Ctrl-Z prizes novel approaches to old problems, innovative forms of presentation, and unlikely collaborations and chance encounters. Through its arts and research events and its publishing operations, Ctrl-Z seeks to link researchers from different disciplines and cultural professions, and to connect specialist academic and arts practitioners with the diverse audiences that make up the “general” public.

Ctrl-Z welcomes critical and creative submissions in experimental, traditional or multimedia formats for possible publication in the international, peer-reviewed journal, Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy, and is open to proposals for research collaboration.

Ctrl-Z is supported by Curtin University’s Centre for Culture & Technology and School of Media, Culture & Creative Arts.

ACME is an international journal for critical analyses of the social, the spatial, and the political.

Our underlying purpose is to make critical work accessible for free. We set no subscription fee, we do not publish for profit, and no ACME Editors receive any payment for their labour. We note this not in self-righteousness, but as a way to foreground the practice of collective work and mutual aid.

The journal's purpose is to provide a forum for the publication of critical work about space and place in the social sciences — including anarchist, anti-racist, environmentalist, decolonial, feminist, Marxist, non-representational, postcolonial, poststructuralist, queer, situationist, and socialist perspectives. Analyses that are critical are understood to be part of the praxis of social and political change aimed at challenging, dismantling, and transforming prevalent relations, systems, and structures of exploitation, oppression, imperialism, national aggression, environmental destruction, and neoliberalism.

ACME is intended to be international in scope and is accessed by people from more than 185 countries around the globe. The editors especially encourage submissions from academic and non-academic sources outside Anglo-America. Articles may be submitted in English, French, Italian, German, or Spanish. Articles written in other languages may be accepted for review after consultation with the editors. The editors also encourage submission of alternative formats. We publish using Creative Commons licenses.

Articles accepted in ACME must meet the highest standards of scholarly peer review. Research articles are peer reviewed by three external referees, while interventions and commentaries are peer reviewed by two external referees. The journal has been publishing via the ‘platinum’ open-access model since 2002 and now plays a very important role in the publication of interdisciplinary scholarly work.