WGBH has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to bring the hidden treasures in WGBH’s Media Library and Archives to light. We hope to increase public awareness of the vast collections that digital repositories like WGBH hold by publishing our entire archival catalog online, for open access and use, by late Summer 2013. To see some of the content already curated by WGBH’s Media Library and Archives staff, please visit our website: http://openvault.wgbh.org

Placing the catalog online is only the first step, as records may be incomplete or misleading. To help enhance the quality of our records, we are inviting scholars, teachers and students to research our catalog and contribute their own discoveries and findings back to us. Participants may contribute a lot or a little- it’s up to you! We will have three ways that you can participate.

Fill out a Survey
If you have used the online catalog, let us know about your experience by filling out a quick survey and describing the items you utilized.

Share your expertise
If you have accessed the online catalog and viewed items in our physical collection, then please share your expertise! Contribute full descriptions of the items you examined and receive credit for your contributions in the catalog record.

**Curate a collection**
For those doing in depth research with the online catalog and our physical assets, there are limited opportunities to catalog and curate an online collection specific to your field of research as part of Open Vault. Final products could include essays on your topic, streaming public access to one selection of media in your collection, supplying metadata for the items in your collection and/or presenting your findings at a conference.

We hope you will join us on this exciting project!

**Limited funding may be available to those who choose to participate**

Allison Pekel
Project Coordinator
WGBH Media Library and Archive
One Guest St.
Boston, MA 02135
Phone: (617)300-2678

Email: allison_pekel@wgbh.org
Visit the website at http://openvault.wgbh.org/

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Open Book Publishers is proud to announce the launch of a Digital
Humanities Series.

The series is overseen by an international board of experts and its books subjected to rigorous peer review. Its objective is
to encourage and support the development of experimental monographs, edited volumes and collections that extend the boundaries of the field and
help to strengthen its interrelations with the other disciplines of the
arts, humanities and beyond. We are also interested in introductory guides for non-specialists, best practices guides for practitioners and “state of the art” surveys. The Series will offer digital humanists a dedicated venue for high-quality, Open Access publication.

Proposals in any area of the Digital Humanities are invited. For further
details and instructions on how to submit please see
http://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/29/1/digital-humanities

Editorial Board

Paul Arthur, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Julia Flanders, Gary Hall, Brett
Hirsch, Matthew, L. Jockers, John Lavagnino, Willard McCarty, Roberto
Rosselli del Turco and Elke Teich.

Open Book Publishers

Open Book is an independent academic publisher, run by scholars who are
committed to making high-quality research available to readers around the
world. We publish monographs and textbooks in the Humanities and Social
Sciences, and offer the academic excellence of a traditional press, with
the speed, convenience and accessibility of digital publishing. All our
books are available to read for free online. To date we have 30 books in
print, over 215,000 visits to these books via the Web and readers from
over 125 countries. See www.openbookpublishers.com for more information.

DISSERTATION REVIEWS (http://dissertationreviews.org) has been featuring research on gender and sexuality in a number of our existing series, whether in Chinese Literature, South Asian Studies, Medical Anthropology, or elsewhere. The time is now ripe for DR to feature a standalone Gender and Sexuality Dissertation Reviews series, edited by Caroline Walters, which will bring you friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended, unpublished dissertations from this brilliant field — one that has long been vigilant in raising powerful
and insightful critiques of the ways in which we think and the ways in which we live.

As with our 20 existing series on Dissertation Reviews, Gender and
Sexuality Dissertation Reviews will also feature reviews and guides
for archives, libraries, and collections, providing up-to-date
introductions to foundational as well as overlooked research
collections. If you are interested in having your dissertation
reviewed, please fill out the Review Application Form on our webpage.
If you are interested in helping out in some other way, please contact
the Editor-in-Chief Thomas Mullaney (Associate Professor in History at
Stanford University) and the Managing Editor Leon Rocha (Research
Fellow at University of Cambridge).

Introducing Our New Field Editor

Caroline Walters is a Visiting Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies
at Middlesex University. She is currently working on her first
monograph, which is adapted from her 2012 dissertation, entitled
“Discourses of Heterosexual Female Masochism and Submission from the
1880s to the Present Day” (University of Exeter, supervised by
Professor Lisa Downing). She is the contributing co-editor of “Fat
Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism” (in preparation) and a
special issue of the peer-reviewed journal “Sexualities” on
“Theorising Fat Sexuality” (forthcoming). She has organized several
conferences (“Bisexuality and Mental Health” in Bradford, UK 2012;
“Public Engagement in Gender and Sexuality Studies” in Newcastle, UK
2011; “Forgotten Bodies” in Exeter, UK 2010).  Broadly her research
focuses upon the intersection between literary, filmic, theoretical
and scientific texts as they formulate discourses of sexuality,
particularly in its “non-normative” forms, mental health and “fat”
bodies. Caroline Walters can be reached at
caroline.walters@dissertationreviews.org.

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