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The New York Public Library

Archiving Performing Arts Electronic Journals:A Planning Project

Proposal to The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationMellon Electronic Journal Archiving Program

October 13, 2000

The New York Public Library

Archiving Performing Arts Electronic Journals:A Planning Project

Proposal to The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationMellon Electronic Journal Archiving Program

Contents

Summary ................................................1

The New York Public Library and its research collections 2

Proposal to the Mellon Foundation:Archiving performing arts electronic journals...........5

Scope of activities ....................................9

Publishers’ participation and planning the growth of thearchive ............................................9

Designing the technical and operational infrastructure10

Defining operational processes and the organizational model..................................................11

Contingency planning................................11

Developing a plan for implementation ................12

Proposed costs............ Error! Bookmark not defined.

Project timeline....................................10

Background on the Library’s Digital Library Program.... 15

The Information Technology Group of The New York Public Library

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Attachment A: Curriculum vitae of principal project staff

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Attachment B: E-journals under consideration for the project

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The New York Public Library · Archiving Performing Arts Electronic Journals

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Summary

The New York Public Library respectfully submits this proposalto The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation requesting a grant of$150,000 for a one-year planning project that focuses onarchiving electronic journals in the performing arts and relatedstudies. This planning activity will lead to the formulation ofa fully developed, four-year project that will establish securerepositories of archived electronic journals, ensuring the long-term availability of important national and internationalresources.

The New York Public Library is in an ideal position to take onthe responsibility for coordinating these efforts, having earneda wide reputation for leadership in performing artslibrarianship, in the preservation of library materials, and inthe application of digital technology.

The Library’s collections in the performing arts are broadlyrecognized as among the largest anywhere. One of the Library’sfour major research centers, The New York Public Library for thePerforming Arts is located within Lincoln Center for thePerforming Arts and houses the world’s most extensivecombination of circulating, reference, and rare archivalcollections in its field.

The New York Public Library has maintained a long anddistinguished tradition of working to ensure the preservation ofall its collections. It hosts one of the largest librarypreservation programs in the country, one of the first suchprograms established, and works actively along with otherleading institutions on addressing key issues of librarypreservation.

The Library has shown leadership in the application of digitaltechnology through a highly sophisticated Digital LibraryProgram now in development that will make hundreds of thousandsof materials from its research collections available on theInternet. As part of this program, the Library has given specialattention to the establishment of systems, policies, and proceduresfor archiving information in electronic form.


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In the proposed planning project, the Library and project staffwill elicit the participation of electronic journal publishersand develop agreements regarding archival rights andresponsibilities that will serve as the basis for thedevelopment of electronic archives. Activities will include allthose identified in the Foundation’s letter of invitation toparticipate in the Mellon Electronic Journal Archiving Program:the development of a technical implementation plan for thearchive, an acquisitions and growth plan, an organizationalmodel and staffing requirements, access policies, and long-termfunding options. Special attention will be given to thedevelopment of methodologies that the archive would use tovalidate the archival processes and assure the user communitiesthat the journals for which the archive is responsible will beaccessible and readable into the future.The New York Public Library and its research collections

Because of the extraordinary size and importance of itscollections, the diverse services it offers to a broad public,and its long record of leadership within the community oflibraries and scholarly institutions, The New York PublicLibrary is regarded in practice if not designated in name, as anational institution. Founded in 1895, The New York PublicLibrary is the only public library in the United States to offeran extensive system of 85 neighborhood circulating branchlibrariesone of the largest in the nationas well as researchcollections that approach the size and significance of the greatnational libraries of the world. Today, the Library’s researchcollections contain over 42 million items, in over 3,000languages and dialects, preserving the essential records ofevery generation and answering the research needs of two milliononsite visitors every year and many more who use the Library’sresources remotely, including millions who connect with theLibrary online through the Internet.

The research collections include the great primary works andimportant secondary literature documenting the breadth of humanexperience, and they serve as one of the most extensive publiclyaccessible resources for information and knowledge anywhere.For a vast range of subjects, investigation of the Library’scollections is essential in order for a research project to beconsidered complete, since an abundant amount of material inmany subjects is found within the Library’s collections and


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nowhere else. The research collections are contained withinfour centers that comprise The Research Libraries of The NewYork Public Library:§ The Humanities and Social Sciences Library, in the landmark

building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street;§ The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, at

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts;§ The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, at Malcolm

X Boulevard and 135th Street; and§ The Science, Industry and Business Library at Madison Avenue

and 34th Street.

Each one of the centers of The Research Libraries holdsextensive collections in its designated or assigned disciplines.The collections span an extraordinary breadth in subject matterand formats of material and extend to an equally extraordinarydepth of coverage. They include countless examples of uniqueand rare items that sit at the very core of scholarship. Amongthese are 700 cuneiform tablets; 160 medieval and Renaissanceilluminated manuscripts; Christopher Columbus’s letterannouncing the discovery of the New World; photographs and platebooks from the personal and palace libraries of the RussianImperial Family; the first wax cylinder sound recordings made atthe Metropolitan Opera; and the personal papers of CharlesDickens, Walt Whitman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Langston Hughes,and virtually every notable figure in English and Americanliterature.


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Built upon collections dating from The New York Public Library’sbeginnings in the 19th century, the Library for the PerformingArts was established as a separate research center in 1965, whenLincoln Center for the Performing Arts was built. It hassteadily continued a tradition of adding current materials inpublished form as well as major collections of personal papers andarchives. Recent additions include the New York ShakespeareFestival archives and the personal collections of John Cage,Lillian Gish, and Jerome Robbins. It also has an active program ofdocumenting on videotape live performances, especially for theatreand dance. In all, the performing arts collections include morethan 8 million items, covering nearly every aspect of theperforming arts, from Greek tragedy to Renaissance dance tocontemporary pop music. The Library for the Performing Artsserves a broad constituency of hundreds of thousands of annualusersdancers, musicians, actors, playwrights, conductors,choreographers, stage directors, critics, historians, teachers,students, and people from all walks of life. An unparalleledresource for information about the field and an inspiration forthe creation of new works, the Library for the Performing Artsis a vital center for all who wish to study and increase theirappreciation of music, theatre, film, recorded sound, and dance.

Increasingly, all of the major centers of The Research Librarieshave been expanding their collections with materials in digitalform. This includes audio and video recordings in commercialdigital formats, as well as electronic periodical indexes, full-text electronic resources and other information databases, agreat many of which are made available on the Library’s website.The New York Public Library is also using digital technology asa tool to expand access to its own research collectionsworldwide, making available on the Internet digitalreproductions of great treasures and other valuable materialsfrom the collections. With the increasing production ofinformation in electronic form, major research institutions suchas The New York Public Library have the added responsibility ofworking together with electronic publishers to ensure thatresources in this form will be available for future generations.


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Proposal to the Mellon Foundation:Archiving performing arts electronic journals

The Library’s proposed project will result in the development ofa detailed plan which will lead to the establishment of securerepositories of archived electronic journals, ensuring the long-term availability of important national and internationalresources. The plan would be carried out through a four-yearimplementation phase. During the proposed planning project, theLibrary will identify the publishers of electronic journals inthe performing arts and related studies and begin working withthem on a set of specific agreements covering respective rightsand responsibilities of both parties in pursuing this venture.The subject focus of the project will encompass a range ofelectronic journals in the humanities, primarily centered on theperforming arts, but will also include related academicdisciplines such as media studies, literary criticism, andhistorical and social studies. These fields will offer a numberof interesting opportunities for exploring digital archivingissues.

The New York Public Library is ideally positioned to take on theresponsibility for coordinating these efforts, having earned awide reputation for leadership in performing arts librarianship,in the preservation of library materials, and in the applicationof digital technology.

The Library’s performing arts collections, largely containedwithin The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, areamong the most extensive in the world. Existing collectionpolicy on printed journals ensures that the Library alreadycollects extensively in both North American and overseas journalliterature across the disciplines and media of the performingarts: dance, music, and theatre, and recorded sound, film andtelevision. In addition, the Library provides subjectpathfinders to Internet-based materials in the performing artsfield from its web site, leading researchers to a myriad ofelectronic resources, including substantial numbers of e-journals of various kinds. The development of an archivefacility at The New York Public Library for such journals is anatural extension of both these activities, enabling the proveninformational and curatorial skills of Library staff to bedeployed in this new and developing area of research provision.


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It is especially appropriate for the Library to take on aleadership role in archiving electronic performing artsresources, given the Library’s extraordinary holdings of non-printmaterials, its wide coverage of popular culture, and its pro-activework in documenting all aspects of the performing arts.

The New York Public Library has from its very beginnings placeda high priority on ensuring the long-term preservation of allits collections, establishing one of the first preservationprograms in a research library. Today, the Library hosts one ofthe nation’s largest such programs and works actively togetherwith other leading institutions on addressing important issuesrelated to the preservation of library materials.

The Library has also shown strong leadership in the applicationof digital technology, through a highly sophisticated DigitalLibrary Program now in development that will make hundreds ofthousands of materials from its research collections availableon the Internet. As part of this program, the Library has givenspecial attention to the establishment of systems, policies, andprocedures for archiving information in electronic form.(Background information on the digital program appears on page 12.)

The Library keeps abreast of the activity of the full range ofpublishers in the performing arts and related studies, fromestablished companies with both electronic and print journals tosmall groups of researchers or individual scholars working aloneestablishing potentially fugitive websites.

A list of e-journals under consideration for inclusion in theproject is included as Attachment B. The list includes peer-reviewed journals and magazines from more popular sources. Itcontains those born digital, those published in both print andelectronic forms, and those published as an online supplement toprint titles. It reflects the particular nature of electronicjournal material in the performing arts:§ the publishers are very often small entities rather than well-

established, major commercial outlets;§ the material is delivered to users in a variety of electronic

formats and often makes great use of embedded multimediafunctions (such as digital sound and video) as exemplars;


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§ extensive use is made of hypertextuality, in particular linksto other pages and presences elsewhere on the World Wide Web;and

§ the instant nature of much of the activity in the performingarts places a much higher premium, for future researchpurposes, on what might be described as ephemera, and a numberof titles in the list fall into that category.

Archiving e-journals in the performing arts will need to addresscertain challenges in building usable collections for futureresearchers, including:§ the organizational and legal challenge of dealing with a

number of smaller entities and individuals, many of whom areoutside the mainstream publishing world;

§ the technological challenge of handling embedded multimedia,prefiguring an outcome which is not yet fully developedamongst more traditional publications in electronic form; and

§ the hypertextual challenge of examining the feasibility of,and solutions to, the maintenance of persistent links to otherweb presences within an archive environment.

These challenges together will give the project the opportunity,not yet so readily available in other spheres of informationprevision, t0 examine in some depth how the changing nature ofthe public information space which is the World Wide Web willimpact technologically and organizationally on the collectionmanagement and archival activities of research libraries in the21st century.

Staff from the Digital Library Program together with staff fromthe Library for the Performing Arts will review the list ofpotential e-journals further, consider adding titles at theoutset of the project, and prioritize potential publisherpartners. (The list of performing arts e-journals and webzineslinked from the Library’s website will be helpful in thisregardsee the Library’s Performing Arts Internet Resourcespage, http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/internet.) The Libraryhas already begun contacting selected publishers of leading e-journals about possible participation and will continue thesediscussions before the project’s outset.

Once the project begins, the Library will work closely withpublishers of electronic journals toward the goal of


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establishing a working electronic archive, exploring the issuesraised by the Council on Library and Information Resources(CLIR) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and detailed inthe Federation’s April 2000 publication, Minimum Criteria for anArchival Repository of Digital Scholarly Journals.

Among the many areas that the Library will examine are: theviability of certain formats as archival forms (e.g., AcrobatPDF files or HTML with multi-media and embedded links), thelevel of commitment that can or should be made in themaintenance of the original presentation style, and the degreeto which migration or emulation of particular technologies isappropriate.


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Scope of activities

A Project Officer will be recruited to serve as the principalLibrary staff member responsible for coordinating activities inthe one-year planning project. (The opening for the positionwill be announced to Library staff and also outside theLibrary.) The Project Officer will be assigned to the Library’sexisting Digital Library Program and work under the Program’sDirector, Michael F. Alexander, who will be responsible foroverall project administration. Mr. Alexander has extensiveexperience in the digital arena, having served as the Manager ofDigital Document Developments at the British Library, where hehad worked for ten years before joining The New York PublicLibrary in 2000. The Deputy Director of The Research Libraries,Heike Kordish, who has provided leadership in all aspects of theLibrary’s digital program, will also have a role in projectoversight. (Copies of Mr. Alexander’s and Ms. Kordish’scurriculum vitae are included in Attachment A.)

Publishers’ participation and planning the growth of the archive

The first activities of the project will be to identify ascomprehensively as possible performing arts journals availablein electronic form, to prioritize the leading e-journals, and tocontact appropriate publishers, inviting them to participate ina large-scale archiving project. The Library will work withpublishers to draw up a template for a set of agreementscovering the range of options in establishing an electronicarchive that would be agreeable to the publisher participantsand that could be supported by the Library. The Library’sGeneral Counsel, Robert J. Vanni, will provide some assistancein this work. This process will be interactive, as much of theinformation on rights and permissions to inform such agreementswill emerge continuously throughout the planning year, both fromthe continuing discussions with publishers and duringexplorations by the Library into the technical feasibility ofwhat is being proposed. This process will incur costs for thelegal services of outside counsel for the project and travel forpublishers’ representatives to the Library. (Project travelcosts may also cover travel by Library project staff to meetwith other participants in the Mellon Electronic JournalArchiving Program.) Another important aspect of the discussions


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will be to begin developing an acquisitions policy to plan forthe growth of the archive and estimate the growth over thefollowing four years in the project’s implementation phase.

Designing the technical and operational infrastructure

A major activity of the project will be designing the technicaland operational infrastructure needed by the Library to supportthe archival activity. Barbara Taranto, the Digital LibraryProgram’s Systems Coordinator will be responsible forfacilitating technical aspects of the project. She will worktogether with the Project Officer and with staff in theLibrary’s Information Technology Group (see page 13), who workunder the direction of David M. Sturm, the Library’s VicePresident for Information Technology and Chief InformationOfficer. (Résumés for Ms. Taranto and Mr. Sturm are included inAttachment A.) A small server will be purchased to carry out arange of prototyping activities to test assumptions about thesystem design. The proposed design for the operation andmanagement of the archive will be based on the Reference Modelfor an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), identified inthe Foundation’s letter of invitation for the Electronic JournalArchiving Program. The design will benefit from information onwork already done by other projects, such as the European Union-funded Networked European Deposit Library (NEDLIB), which havemoved further from theory into practice with this approach.This activity will involve the following tasks:

A proposed method for assembling an OAIS SubmissionInformation Package (SIP). This will identify the sources andmethods of delivery for the e-journal object itself; for therange of metadata which will serve both to identify it, manageits life-cycle within the archive and retrieve it for access;and for the processes required to make this material suitablefor placing in the managed environment of the archive as anOAIS Archival Information Package (AIP).

The identification, sizing and cost analysis of an appropriatehardware and software environment in which to manage the AIPs.An object-oriented approach will be adopted in both the designwork and software implementation to ensure that the integrityand functionality of the AIP is maintained. In the interests


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of inter-operability, the proposed metadata structure willdraw heavily on work already developed by librariesinternationally (such as NEDLIB and CEDARS in the UnitedKingdom) to define the key OAIS areas of preservationinformation: reference information, context information,provenance information, fixity information, and representationinformation. It is envisioned that the volume of materialwill be such that a significant storage facility in the formof a Storage Area Network (SAN) will be required, togetherwith proven and robust database software capable of managingdata in an object-oriented environment.

The identification of the range of technological challenges.These will include the persistence of names and hyperlinks,response to technology change, scalability of performance,which will be examined during the archiving project itself,and for which solutions will be attempted.

The development of a methodology for identifying andretrieving information from the archive. The methodology foridentifying and retrieving information from the journalscontained in the archive must be developed to maximizeefficiency in terms of information systems and management and,at the same time, strive for c0st-effectiveness.

Defining operational processes and the organizational model

Several other key activities will also be defined: all theoperational processes required to support the archive, namelythe receiving and accessioning of e-journal material, the on-going management of the archive, and the active interventionrequired to manage technology change over time. In addition, anorganizational model of staff required to support theseactivities will be proposed, and the cost implications of thisstaffing resource will be identified.

Contingency planning

The project will also outline contingency planning in the eventof the demise of either the publisher or the archive andinvestigate how the archive could assist in the development of a


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network of national and international archives, through contactswith institutions undertaking similar work. Potential economicmodels that might support the continuing activity of the archivewill be identified for consideration during the life-cycle ofthe full-scale project.

Developing a plan for implementation

The final work of the project will be to derive from all theabove activities a set of proposals to implement a workingarchive of electronic journals over the succeeding four years,together with a set of costs and a project plan. The ProjectOfficer will participate with the Director of the DigitalLibrary Program in the two joint planning meetings proposed bythe Foundation and would act as the main liaison with theFoundation, potential publisher partners, and potential archivalpartners for planning and decision matters. All the proposedsubsequent activities developed during this planning year willbe validated against the Minimum Criteria for an ArchivalRepository of Digital Scholarly Journals to ensure consistencywith the Mellon Foundation’s program.


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Background on the Library’s Digital Library Program

The Library is currently in the second year of developing ahighly sophisticated Digital Library Program that will make600,000 of its prints, photographs, maps and other graphicalmaterials from its research collections available on the web.It also intends to embark on further digitization of full-textmaterial in its collections and has begun to produce manuscriptcollection finding aids in Standard Generalized Markup Language(SGML) as a step towards this work.

This ambitious program has the principal aim of expandingglobally public access to the Library’s outstanding researchcollections. A significant by-product of this activity is theestablishment of an operational and technical infrastructure formaintaining access to this digital material into the future.The Library is therefore giving early attention to theestablishment of such an infrastructure and to the developmentof policies and procedures for archiving this material. Thesystem currently in place uses large-capacity server hardware tostore image files together with a tape backup procedure that isrun regularly and programmed to continually refresh the datafiles. The Library’s information technology specialists arealready developing processes for migrating this data andassessing issues of data loss and digital object integrity.

With the volume of material that the Library plans to place inthe digital arena over the next four years, the Library will berequired to construct an archiving facility that will becomparable to the likely infrastructure required for any long-term archiving of electronic journals. It is the Library’s firmbelief, therefore, that there will be great opportunities forsynergy in the work to meet both of these two requirements. TheLibrary will be well positioned through both its technicalinfrastructure and its digital collection management policies tooffer one of the trusted, robust e-journal archives envisionedin the Mellon Electronic Journal Archiving Program.


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The Information Technology Group of The New York Public Library

The Information Technology Group (ITG) of The New York PublicLibrary is responsible for the planning, implementation andoperation of institutional networking and telecommunicationsservices, information systems, administrative systems andinformation technology infrastructure. The Library operates asophisticated computing facility and wide area network and wasthe first major public library within New York State to createits own Internet gateway and provide menu-driven access to itsonline catalogs.

The Library uses a variety of technology and services for bothpublic access and staff and administrative functions.Troubleshooting and on-site support of all network and end-userdevices and their associated applications are provided byLibrary staff, with assistance from contracted maintenanceservices. The Library’s information technology equipmentincludes:§ 4,000 devices of which 3,000 are PCs and 1,000 are ASCII

terminals;§ 100 local area networks supporting 90 locations;§ 94 routers, six ATM switches, six OC-12 connections, two OC-3

connections, one T3 connection, and 85 T1 connections;§ three data centers, five DEC Alpha systems (The Research

Libraries’ catalog, the Library’s Information ManagementSystem, and the Science, Industry and Business Librarydatabase server), two DEC VAX systems (for the HumanResources, Finance, and Development Units, and for the AndrewHeiskell Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped),one Hewlett Packard 9000 Unix system (for the catalog of TheBranch Libraries), and six Sun Systems (for the Internet, adigital library server, and the IT help desk);

§ ten large telephone switches and 22 smaller systems supporting2,600 phones and 200 fax machines, and automated calldistribution systems at the Science, Industry and BusinessLibrary, and the Mid-Manhattan and Donnell Branch Libraries;and

§ 750 outside lines and 650 voice mail accounts.

The Library uses a variety of software packages for staff andadministrative functions. PC operating system software isMicrosoft Windows (95, 98 and 2000), along with the Microsoft


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Office Suite, Lotus cc:mail, and Netscape Navigator. TheLibrary has installed PeopleSoft as its Information ManagementSystem. ITG supports the Library’s Web server, Intranet server,and all Internet related applications. The Library currentlyoffers connectivity to the Internet at the following speeds:§ T3 connectivity from the Internet to the ITG technology center

at Donnell;§ OC-12 connectivity to the four Research centers, Mid-

Manhattan, and Donnell; and§ T1 connectivity to the Heiskell Library for the Blind and

Physically Handicapped, the 8 West 40th Street administrativebuilding, and to all Branch Libraries.


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ITG has established minimum standards for all PC workstationsinstalled in Branch, Research, and central administrationfacilities, for other new equipment and software, andperiodically upgrades these standards as technology improves andchanges. The Library u se s a s ta n da rd TC P/ I P co m mu ni c at io n p ro to c ol a s i ts In te r ne t inf or m at io n e xc h an ge . Th e L ib r ar y’ s s ys te m i s com pl e te ly We b- c om pa t ib le an d its c a ta lo g s an d d at ab a se s are a c ce ss i bl e via W e b pr o to co l s or te ln e t. The L ib ra r y cu r re nt l y of f er s Z39 .5 0 i nt e r- op e ra bi l it y so th a t ot h er Z 39 .5 0 c at a lo gs ma y be se a rc he d u si n g th e s am e p ro c ed ur e s.


Attachment A: Curriculum vitae of principal project staff


Attachment B: E-journals under consideration for the project


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General Arts

ArtsWire http://www.artswire.orgA weekly online digest of Arts newsfrom the New York Foundation forthe ArtsArtsjournal.com http://www.arstjournal.comA daily online digest of Arts news inthe USAOideion http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/oideionAn online journal dedicated to thePerforming Arts issued by theUniversity of Leiden, NetherlandsAbsoluteaerts.com http://www.absolutearts.comAn online digest of general artsinformation from World Wide ArtsResources CorporationArtery: the AIDS arts forum http://www.artistswithaids.org/artery/index1.ht

mlAn online journal dedicated toartistic endeavors from artistsassociated with the struggle againstAIDSICulture http://www.infoculture.cbc.caAn online magazine of Canadianperforming arts maintained by CBCtelevisionThe Flying Inkpot http://inkpot.com/An online performing arts reviewmagazine based in Singapore andconcentrating on AsiaEve’s Magazine http://www.evesmag.comAn online multimedia magazine ofthe arts produced by Eve BerlinerThe Celebrity Café http://www.thecelebritycafe.comAn online entertainment magazinecovering musicians, actors, models,writers and artists


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Cultural Studies

Consciousness, Literature and theArts

http://www.aber.ac.uk/~drawww/journal

A peer-reviewed journal producedat The University of Wales,AberystwythEuropa http://www.intellectbooks.com/europaA journal covering aspects ofEuropean culture, art civilizationand ways of living, for formal studyand the informed lay person.Produced by Intellect Ltd. of Exeter,UKEarly Modern Literary Studies http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.htmlA refereed journal serving as formalarena for scholarly discussion andas an academic resource for literarystudies, including drama and music,with references to wider InternetresourcesWomen and Performance http://www.echonyc.com/~womenAn online journal assessing the roleof women in the performing artsThe Journal of Multimedia History http://www.albany.edu/jmmhFrom Volume 2, 1999 onwards ajournal assessing the impact ofmultimedia arts, including film,video and web presencesRENAISSANCE forum http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/EL_Web/renforumAn electronic journal of early-modern literary and historicalstudies, based at the University ofHull, UK to.the.quick http://www.agoron.com/~matthewk/quickAn academic journal magazineexamining media artsEcho http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/echoAn online journal examine multi-media cultural activityReSoundings http://www.millersville.edu/~resoundA peer-reviewed interactive


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hypermedia periodical dealing withprint, graphics, and music


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JAC Online http://jac.gsu.eduA peer-reviewed journal fromGeorgia State University, publishingtheoretical articles on rhetoric,writing etc.LIMEN no longer availableAn online journal dedicated to theperformance paradigmCritical Inquiry http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inqA print and online cultural studiesjournal from the University ofChicago

The Nunc Sumus Journal http://www.nuncsumus.com/home.htmAn online journal devoted to thecontinued expansion of thoughtrelating to the humanitiesApplied Semiotics http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-saAn international review of researchliterature on the Internet

Music

Sound Journal http://www.ukc.ac.uk/sdfva/sound-journal/main.html

A peer-reviewed electronic journalexamining the role of sound acrossboundariesSkene http://www.skene.com.mx/main.htmAn online journal examining the roleof theatre in MexicoJournal of Seventeenth-CenturyMusic

http://www.sscm.harvard.edu/jscm/Welcome.html

A refereed forum for scholarlystudies of the musical culture of theSeventeenth CenturyJournal of New Music Research:Electronic Appendix

http://www.swets.nl/jnmr/jnmr.html

The Electronic Appendix containsmultimedia documents relating toarticles in the print edition of the


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journalGuitar and Lute Issues http://www.orphee.com/pluck.htmlThe on-line magazine of EditionsOrpheeEuropean Music Journal http://www.music-journal.com/englishAn online review in four languagesof musical activities within theEuropeanUnionEthnomusicology OnLine http://www.research.umbc.edu/efhmA peer-review multimedia webjournal of ethnomusicologyEssays in Sound http://automnnous.org/soundsite/csa/essays_i

n_sound/index.htmlAn online representation of soundin contemporary artsElectronic Musicological Review http://www.cce.ufpr.br/~rem/remi.htmlAn online journal of electronicmusic studies from the University ofParana, BrazilClassical Digital http://www.bmf_introweb.com/classiccd??Reviews of classical musicperformances in digital form fromSpainSTM-Online http://www.musik.uu.se/ssm/stmonline/index_

eng.htmlThe Internet publication of theSwedish musicology Society, inSwedish and EnglishOnline Trombone Journal http://www.trombone.orgAn internet resource for, and by,trombonists neue musikzetung http://www.nmz.deAn online discussion forum inGerman for new musical forms


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Music Theory Online http://www.societymusictheory.org/mto/The Online Journal of the Societyfor Music TheoryMusic Research Digest ftp://cattell.psych.upenn.edu/pub/Music.Resea

rch/00index???An electronic distribution list dealingwith issues of music and computingMusic & Vision http://www.mvdaily.comA daily Intent music magazineMusic Analysis http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/An international forum for newwriting on musical works Andrepertoires issued in print andelectronic formCritical Musicology http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/CMJ/cmj.ht

mlOnline house journal for theDepartment of Music, University ofLeeds, UKTrumpet Player Online http://www.v-zone.com/tpo/newtpomain.htmlAn internet resource for, and by,trumpetersDelta Snake Blues News http://www.island.net/~blues/snake.htmlAn online news and viewsmagazine for blues aficionadosAMP, Alternate Music Press http://www.alternatemusicpress.com/amp.htmlThe multimedia journal al of NewMusicMin-Ad Israel Studies in MusicalityOnline

http://www.biu.ac.il/hu/mu/ims/Min-ad

A refereed scholarly journalpublished on the World Wide Webaimed at a diverse community ofmusic scholarsResearch Perspectives in MusicEducation

http://arts.usf.edu/music/rpme.htm

Online journal from the University ofSouth Florida School of Music


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Mikropolyphonie http://farben.latrobe.edu.au/mikropol/header.html

The Online contemporary musicjournal of Latrobe University,AustraliaDe Musica http://users.unimi.it/~giana/demus.htmThe first Italian Online Journal ofthe philosophy, aesthetics andtheory of MusicJazzchord http://www.magna.com.au/~georgeh/ozjazzjc.

htmlNews and Information from theNational Australian Jazz Co-ordinatorThe Music Monitor http://www.musicmonitor.net/An online news and review journalof contemporary musicHyperreal http://www.hyperreal.orgAn online magazine of music andits impact on popular cultureRootsworld http://www.rootsworld.com/rwAn online journal of roots musicFolkWorld http://www.folkworld.de/15/e/index.htmlA multi-lingual online magazine forthe discussion of folk music of theWorld, based in Germany digimag http://www.digimag.com/main.htmlAn online magazine of news anddiscussion of contemporary popularmusic Cyber-Drum http://www.cyberdrum.com/cd_home.htmThe online resource for drummersSalsaweb http://www.salsaweb.com/An online magazine of news anddiscussion of Latin American musicDescarga.com http://www.desarga.comAn online journal of news interviewsand reviews of Latin AmericanMusicReggae Web Ring http://www.reggaering.org/home.htmlAn online discussion forum forReggae and other West Indian


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musical formsDownBeat.com http://downbeat.com/sections/home/text/defau

lt.aspAn online magazine of jazz andswing musicCBMR Discussion http://www.cbmr.org/digest.htmAn online discussion forum forblack music in scholarly andeducational environmentsMusic Education Research http://www.catchword.co.uk/titles/carfax/14613

808/contp1-1.htmA peer-reviewed journal issued byTaylor & Francis in print andelectronic formsCisum http://members.tripod.com/~cisumreviewAn independent music magazineissued free of charge on the WorldWide WebAccess to the Music Zone http://www.amzmusiczine.comReviews of contemporary [popularmusicChristian Music Newsletter http://christianmusic.about.comA subscription newsletterdiscussing Christian musicworldwideChester http://www.darkshow.com.au/chesterAn online journal discussing Indiepopular music in the UK

Theatre

International Journal of ScottishTheatre

http://arts.qmuc.ac.uk/ijost

A peer reviewed journal publishedby the Department of Drama,Queen Margaret University CollegeDIDASKALIA http://didaskalia.berkeley.edu/A website supporting the journalDidiskalia: ancient theater todayCyberStage http://www.cyberstage.orgAn arts magazine examining theuses of technology by new and


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traditional artistsTheatrales http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/c2545/An expanding collection ofhypertexts in French on the natureof TheatreThe Stage http://www.thestage.co.uk/index.shtmlOnline version of the UK theatricalnewspaperThe Drama Review http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/DRAM/tdr-

index.htmlA journal of performance studiespublished by MIT Press in print andelectronic formBackstage.com http://www.backstage.com/An online performing arts resourceACTR/ARTC http://www.umoncton.ca/facarts/anglais/actr/n

ews/251/newslet251.htmOnline newsletter of the Associationfor Canadian Theatre ResearchASTR-L http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/A

RHU/Depts/Theatre/Personnel/CSchuler/ASTR/index.html

The email discussion group of theAmerican Society for TheatreResearchTheatre Perspectives International No longer existsAn online peer reviewed forum fortheater scholars and practitionersMRDS http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/mrds/mrds.htmlOnline newsletter of the MedievalRenaissance Drama SocietyPlaybill Online http://www1.playbill.com/playbillWorld wide web source ofBroadway theater informationDrama Online http://www.dokumenta.co.uk/dramaonline.htmlOnline journal of National Drama forteachers and Educators in the UKResearch in Drama Education http://www.catchword.co.ukA peer reviewed journal publishedby Taylor & Francis in print andelectronic form


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Theatre Management Journal http://www.artsnet.org/ATHEEJA journal of Theatre Managementprovided by the Center for ArtsManagement and Technology atCarnegie Mellon University

Dance

Dance Online http://www.danceonline.com/index.htmlOnline journal reviewingcontemporary dance and theperforming artsDANCER’S DELIGHT http://www.msu.edu/user/okumurakOnline review of contemporarydance stylesThe Letters of Dance http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/lodOnline version of the newsletter forRenaissance and SCA Dance

Film & Television

Continuum http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/continuum2.html

An online journal of film andtelevision from an Australian/Asianperspective, produced by MurdochUniversity, Western Australia

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/frameloader.html?http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/10304312.html(1994- present)

Scene4 http://www.scene4.comOnline journal of the Stage &Screen ForumScenography International http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/scenographyA forum for the discussion anddissemination of research andpractice of scenographyKINEMA http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/juhde/kinemahp.

htmAn online and print journal of Filmand Audiovisual Media


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Das ist taktlos http://www.nmz.de/taktlosThe magazine of BayerischenRundfunks and new music, inGermanFilm Score Monthly http://www.filmscoremonthly.comOnline version of the magazinedevoted to discussion of film musicEye http://www.eye.netAn online news magazine ofinternational film and music

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