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Journal of Scholarly Publishing 

Volume 43, Number 3 / April 2012 

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/x86jj6p15754/

This issue contains: 

 

Sustainability and the Scholarly Enterprise

John T. Seaman, Jr., Margaret B. W. Graham          

 

This article analyses the origins, development, and impact of Gutenberg-e, a
digital publishing program in historical scholarship sponsored by the
American Historical Association (AHA), with the support of the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation. Intended as an experiment in developing and legitimizing
new modes of historical scholarship, Gutenberg-e quickly evolved, under
pressure to become economically sustainable, into a traditional publishing
enterprise bent on making books cheaper and paying for itself in the
process. Digital technology, which had the power to transform the whole
scholarly enterprise, instead became a means to shore up the existing system
of scholarly publishing, with all its flaws intact. Though Gutenberg-e has
much to teach us about the costs and consequences of that system, especially
for the scholars it is meant to serve, it also offers a glimpse of an
alternative future. Almost in spite of itself, Gutenberg-e produced a
handful of innovative works of digital scholarship, experimented with new
forms of scholarly collaboration and community, and highlighted the
opportunities of an expanded audience for specialized academic work. These
modest achievements suggest the potential of digital technology to create
things which scholars value and thereby sustain the scholarly enterprise
over the long term.

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Lester J. Cappon, Scholarly Publishing, and the Atlas of Early American
History, 1957-1976

Richard J. Cox            

 

The Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era 1760-1790,
published in 1976, remains one of the lasting legacies of the US
Bicentennial. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and a
variety of private foundations, the publication was only incidentally a
product of the celebration of the birth of a nation. The Atlas was the
product of twenty years of effort by Lester J. Cappon-historian, archivist,
and documentary editor-and because of his commitment to maintaining his own
personal archives, we can learn more about this scholarly publishing venture
than most. His rich diaries, personal papers, and Atlas archives enable us
to follow the trials and tribulations of this publishing venture. We also
learn that the kinds of issues facing scholarly publishing today, with a few
differences (such as e-publishing), are not unique at all from those of half
a century ago.

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DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.3.294

 

Peer Review As Boundary Work

Graham Howard         

The concept of peer review, in the form of the submission of manuscripts to
refereed journals, is analysed. Standard received sociological and
philosophical accounts of the place of peer review in the production of
knowledge are summarized and critiqued. An alternative 'constructivist'
account is given, and this account is also critiqued. An account of the
'Social Text Affair' is given, and it is argued that the affair is
instructive for understanding the place of peer review in the production of
knowledge. An account of the author's communications with the editors of
Ulrich's International Directory of Periodicals about Social Text is given.
Finally, the sociological concept of 'boundary work' is introduced, and it
is concluded that peer review is a form of 'boundary work.'

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Reviews

Steven E. Gump         

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DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.3.336

 

Letter to the Editor

Bonnie Wheeler          

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DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.3.344

 

 

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