R H's List: Periodicals – Open Access

"JCAS was designed to both develop the activist’s consciousness of animal liberation history, practice, theory and politics, while also encouraging Critical Animal Studies scholarship, one of the most progressive and dynamic modes of theory in the academy today. To this end, JCAS, a free online journal, accepts manuscripts and other materials that promote the fundamental notions of critical animal studies, and which reject and subvert assumptions linked to animal studies and research. We are also interested in research using an intersectional analysis of social justice issues related to other marginalized and oppressed groups in relation to race-ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, disability, geography, age, and spirituality. To ensure the highest standards of academic integrity, our submissions are peer-reviewed by members of the JCAS Review Board."

"Imaginations is an international journal hosted at the University of Alberta in Canada that publishes peer-reviewed articles in original languages as well as translations and commissioned artwork. Imaginations acts as a nexus, or aggregation point, where excellent scholarship informed by different cultures, national histories and linguistic traditions can create a new vocabulary for addressing the notion of the image along with its many avatars, and where academic researchers can also come in contact with visual artists and practitioners reflecting on their approaches. The disciplinary and cultural contacts inspire new dialogues and parallelisms, or even differences and potential frictions, out of which shall necessarily emerge unforeseen insights into the role of the image and visual culture."

"Gramma/Γράμμα: Journal of Theory and Criticism is an international journal, published in English and Greek once a year by the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the Publications Department of the university. It welcomes articles and book reviews from a wide range of areas within the theory and criticism of literature and culture. Of particular interest to the journal are articles with an interdisciplinary approach. Each individual issue has guest editors and is devoted to a subject of recent cultural interest, with book reviews relevant to the topic. All manuscripts are subject to blind peer review and will be commented on by at least two independent experts."

"Welcome to postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies
postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies is a cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal in medieval studies that aims to bring the medieval and modern into productive critical relation."

"meta-carto-semiotics is interested in theoretical studies on questions related to cartography in its broadest sense. What such "cartography in its broadest sense" shall comprise, is already a worthwhile topic within the scope of meta-carto-semiotics. However, we will try to introduce the future discussions in this e-journal more precisely, proposing the following preliminary and rough definition of cartography and cartographic theory. Cartography is about representation of spatial reality to humans. Consequently, cartographic theory focuses on the numerous relations between representation (e.g. map), user and reality. As semiotic theories offer, of course, different ways to structure the aforementioned relationship, semiotics forms part of the journal's name. Moreover, semiotics provides, on the one hand, a solid framework for other theories, which have been already applied on cartographic questions, like communication theories or information theories for example. On the other hand, both current carto-theoretic approaches can be structured on semiotic fundaments and future developments may be prepared."

"Studia Hermetica Journal (SHJ) is a peer-reviewed online journal devoted to the study of Hermetism and other ancient philosophical currents, like Middle Platonism, Neoplatonism, or Theurgy. In general terms, we focus our inquiries on Late Antiquity and the reception of these ancient opuses in Renaissance and Modern Times. In addition, SHJ is opened to the rest of the fields normally involved in the so called Western Esotericism, such Christian Theosophy, Mysticism, Masonry, Rosicruacianism, as well as History of Alchemy, Astrology, and Magic, or Occultism."

Based in Spain but publishing partly in English.

This double issue looks at archives as calls to action. Rather than stable repositories, archives are examined as acts and practices in transit that mobilize different media and are mobilized by them.

"THE OLD POTTER‟S ALMANACK is the joint letter of the Ceramic Petrology Group and the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group."

"AVANT is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to current trends in interdisciplinary studies, focusing on Cognitive Sciences as well as Science, Technology and Society Studies. The journal provides reviews and review-like papers: balanced and insightful syntheses, analysis, comments, opinions, polemics, discussions, book reviews, and interviews. It presents the interactions of various disciplines, including philosophy of mind, neurobiology, psychology, artificial intelligence, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and others. It specializes, among others, in studies on art practises.

The journal publishes mostly solicited papers. AVANT is bilingual (English and Polish), published online in open access, and printed, in the frequency of three issues per year. Two issues are fully international and bilingual. The third issue includes most Polish translations, therefore its editing takes six months. The remaining two issues are published in the next half of the year, three months apart from one another. The editors put emphasis on attractive graphic design."

"Film-Philosophy is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the engagement between film studies and philosophy."

Romanian open-access journal.

"Libellarium, journal for the history of writing, books and memory institutions is a peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Zadar, Department of information sciences and Faculty of humanities and social sciences in Osijek, Department of Information Sciences.

Libellarium is published twice a year, in June and December. Editors accept articles in English or Croatian. Other languages (particularly Italian, French, and German) may be accepted in exceptional cases.

The main aims of Libellarium are motivating and promoting the research of the history of the written word, books and heritage institutions. The Croatian written and printed heritage offers infinite possibilities of research using the most current research methodology, which has not been applied in earlier research. The editorial board of Libellarium therefore invites research papers that will throw more light on the Croatian written and printed heritage, as well as papers that will promote research in line with the prevailing and the most current research paradigms."