About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The North Street Review is an annual publication that prints original and innovative research by current postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers from the UK and abroad.

Our aim is to reflect the broad range of scholarship that falls within the discourse of visual culture. We thus invite papers that follow traditional methodological interpretations of art history and museum studies, as well as research that embodies the interdisciplinary and intermedial aspects of these disciplines.

Journal History

Founded in St. Andrews by Patricia de Montfort and Carol Richardson in 1994, the North Street Review began with a simple objective: to ‘present a taste of a number of research projects in varying stages of progress’ with the School of Art History. Since then, under the guises of Inferno (ISSN: 1355-5596), The University of St. Andrews Journal of Art History and Museum Studies (ISSN: 2041-1987), and now North Street Review: Arts and Visual Culture (e-ISSN: 2053-2024), the journal has evolved into a publication with true international scope and interest.

In its almost two decade history, the North Street Review has published essays by scholars including Cheryl Kramer, Neil Mulholland, and Philip Cottrell, and has provided an initial platform for postgraduate students to share their research and explore the enormous scope of art historical study worldwide. In previous volumes, themes have included the visual culture of South Eastern Europe, art in Scandinavia and the Baltic Region, and maps and cityscapes from the medieval period to the present day. In 2004, the journal established itself as an online publication.

The 2008 edition, co-edited by Maria Halkias and Billy Rough, focussed on two conferences held at the University of St. Andrews: the Association of Art Historians’ Summer Student Symposium ‘Art and Power’, and the postgraduate conference ‘Painting the Stage: Examining the interrelationship of painting and the performing art – Theatricality & Art c.1700 – c.2000’.

In 2009, under the guidance of Katherine Groninger, the journal rose from the ashes of Inferno and was rechristened the St Andrews Journal of Art History and Museum Studies, reaffirming its commitment to communicating original postgraduate research to the School of Art History. This renewed focus on innovative and ground-breaking study led to greater inclusivity, diverse essays spanning continents, centuries, and media. Liz Shannon enhanced this agenda under her editorship, from 2011, publishing articles on early Siamese royal portraiture, the Archangel Raphael in sixteenth-century Venice, and Finnish medieval rakentajamaalaukset paintings

Publisher

This journal is published by:

School of Art History
University of St Andrews
79 North Street
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9AL

School of Art History, University of St Andrews

Publication Frequency

The North Street Review is published annually.

Open Access

The Journal supports Open Access to scholarly work and applies the Creative Commons CC BY-NC licence to ensure access and free use for the widest possible audience. This agreement means that copyright in the Work remains with the Author and readers have the right to reuse the article provided proper attribution is given and the use is non-commercial.

Third party content

Where possible, third party content has been cleared for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial [BY-NC] Licence. In some cases, content is included in Works that is available under a different licence, or with All Rights Reserved. If in doubt, users should ask for permissions prior to re-using any third party content contained in North Street Review: Arts and Visual Culture.

Privacy and Consent Policy

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviours, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this journal platform (Open Journal Systems – OJS) may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project (PKP) in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here.

Registered Users

Users who register with this journal, including authors and peer reviewers where applicable, consent to having their personal information stored in the University’s journal hosting platform (OJS) and processed by the platform and journal editorial teams. Authors published in this journal are also responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported in the journal.

Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.

All users whose details are stored in the University’s OJS installation can exercise their rights of the individual, as they are detailed in the GDPR.

If you have a user account and wish to have it deleted, please email journal-hosting@st-andrews.ac.uk