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The Coming Change in Humanities Publishing (6): Open Access

Open Access is the major movement in scholarly publishing today. The humanities are behind other disciplines in understanding and adopting Open Access, but as the sciences are already discovering, Open Access is reinventing the field of academic publishing generally and will ultimately eclipse traditional publishing.

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The Coming Change in Humanities Publishing (5): Electronic Conventional Scholarship

In the next four posts I will characterize four general types of electronic publishing, moving from that sort which is most like traditional print scholarship to that which is least so.

The first, "Electronic Conventional Scholarship," can be considered the closest to traditional publishing. It includes online versions of established print journals (such as Modern Philology) or, increasingly, journals with no print history or counterpart (such as Textual Studies in Canada). Also within this category are the many digitized issues of back issues available through collections such as JSTOR.