Hi Ben, Thank you for raising the question of archival access for FM. The University of Illinois Chicago has hosted the journal for the past several years. Sorry that it took a little while, but I was able to confirm with our library today that we will continue to host the journal archives. Hopefully, this will put some concerns about continuing access to prior publications to rest! Kind regards, Kelly — Kelly A. Quinn, PhD Clinical Associate Professor Department of Communication University of Illinois Chicago
On Feb 12, 2026, at 1:23 PM, Ben Pettis <bpettis@wisc.edu> wrote: Hi all,
Apologies if this is redundant — I receive the listserv as a digest so may not have seen the most recent messages.
It’s great to see such support and enthusiasm for First Monday, and I share the hope that the community can come up with some way to keep this important resource operating. Others have also pointed out the importance ensuring that the past 30 years of scholarship that has been published there is adequately preserved.
Because everything in FM is open access and published with a Creative Commons license, I am starting on a basic web scraping project to download articles and metadata for everything that has been published in the journal:
https://github.com/bpettis/firstmonday-archive
I’ll keep working on this and continue saving files between now and May 2026, as well as explore options for mirroring this content somewhere else online to ensure it remains accessible. Happy to coordinate with others who may be interested to ensure that we’re preserving and caring for the archives of the journal.
Ben Pettis, Ph.D.
(he/they)
ben.pettis@richmond.edu<mailto:ben.pettis@richmond.edu>
Assistant Professor
Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies
University of Richmond
On 2/11/26, 11:57 AM, "Will Mari" <wtmari@gmail.com> wrote:
agreeing with Bryce and all of my colleagues above -- at the very least, having the journal's archive available is critical. Please add my name to any efforts on 'FM's behalf.
Will Mari
On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 7:10 AM Bryce Newell via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote:
It is great to see all this support for keeping FM alive. I'd be happy to contribute to these efforts as well, if the outgoing leadership at the journal are amenable to the idea. Has anyone had contact with those running the journal currently? We do need to keep fully OA, fee-free journals of this caliber alive! I've also published in the journal recently and have read its issues for years.
Best, Bryce
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