The following is a growing selection of research projects, networks and websites related to (primarily European) periodical research. If you have any suggestions, please send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Research networks, societies and centres:

• History in Popular Cultures of Knowledge, University of Freiburg (English site)

• Institut Deutsche Presseforschung (Institute for the Study of the Historical German Press; in German)

• International Association for Literary Journalism Studies

• Middlebrow Network, focused on research on the term "middlebrow" (includes a mailing list)

• RSAP: Research Society for American Periodicals

• RSVP: Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

• SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

 

Research projects and databases:

• Chinese Women's Magazines from the Late Qing and Early Republican Periods, database providing access to Chinese women's magazines from the first half of the 20th century

• Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Literature in Canada 1925 - 1960; research project on Canadia, but with a focus on the representation of European cities 

• Modernist Journals Project, aims to provide digital editions of significant Modernist magazines

• History in German Illustrated Magazines of the 19th Century (ca. 1850-1914/18), University of Freiburg 

• Project on Victorian Periodicals "Histories for the Many: Historical Lifeworlds in Victorian Family, Women’s and Children’s Periodicals", University of Freiburg

• The Curran Index (Identifying the men and women whose stories, poems, and articles appeared anonymously in nineteenth-century British periodicals.)

• NoRMMA: Network of Research: Movies, Magazines, Audiences. (A research network situated at the University of Kent but open to all scholars interested in fan and film magazines and their position as a meeting ground between industry and audiences.)

• WeChangEd: Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920, Ghent University

• SpaTrEM: Spaces of Translation: European Magazine Culture 1945 – 1965, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Nottingham Trent University

• KYPSELI: database on Ottoman Women's Press (19th century - 1923), University of Crete.

Other websites of interest:

• Book History and  Print Culture Network, blog on Interdisciplinary Perspectives from German-Area Scholars

• Europeana, site dedicated to the digitilisation of European cultural heritage

• At the Free University Berlin several researchers are concerned with periodical research; see the Institute for Media and Communication Studies and the Institute for Arts and Media Management

• Magazine Modernisms, blog dedicated to Modern Periodical Research

• Mapping the Magazine 3, papers presented at the Mapping the Magazine 3 Conference, held at Cardiff University 7 and 8 July 2011

• Museum of Communication, Berlin

• Nineteenth Century Index, source for nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives

• Research cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context at the University of Heidelberg, includes research on public spheres and periodicals

• Weimar Studies Network, resources on the history, culture and society of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933); includes links to German periodicals online