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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear Jim, Excellent idea. However, I would like to inform everyone that Forum Italicum will be online starting January 2010. Forty-three years of publication have been scanned and will be also available starting with the new calendar year. ________________________ Mario B. Mignone, Editor Forum Italicum Center for Italian Studies State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3358 Tel: 631-632-7444 From: Charlotte Ross <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Date: 10/27/2009 10:05 AM Subject: Re: A modest proposal Sent by: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies <[log in to unmask]> italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear Jim, There are already some online journals relating to Italian Studies, such as the Bulletin of Italian Politics, available here: http://www.gla.ac.uk/politics/bulletinofitalianpolitics/ I am sure colleagues will be able to provide details of other online journals. While I agree that it is frustrating to wait for scholarly articles to come out in print, part of this time lag is due to the refereeing process. Dr Charlotte Ross Department of Italian Studies University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT Tel: +44 (0)121 4147505 Gender and Sexuality Studies at Birmingham: http://www.gender.bham.ac.uk/ Birmingham-Warwick MA in Italian Studies: Culture and Communication: http://www.italian.bham.ac.uk/pg/ma.htm From: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies [ mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Ward Sent: 27 October 2009 13:28 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [I-S] A modest proposal Cari colleghi, I would like to propose an idea for discussion among colleagues on this list: an on-line journal of Italian studies. At the present time, there exists, to my knowledge, no such journal; the only on-line resource of this type of which I am aware is the excellent H-Italy, hosted by Michigan State University (www.h-net.org/~italy), which publishes timely reviews of Italy-related books, and has discussion forums for specific topics. Why shouldn't we have a similar resource for scholarly articles? This proposal comes out of my personal experience. Currently, if I submit an article to a journal, I must wait at least 6 months to hear a response, then wait another 8-15 months before the article appears in print. At that point, I can begin to receive feedback from colleagues on the article and the ideas in it. Why should the flow of ideas and information in the humanities be so slow? After all, in the hard sciences, the on-line publication of articles and abstracts in a timely manner has been the norm for many years, which generates immediate feedback and advances the pursuit of knowledge immensely. Are the humanities really different from the hard sciences in some fundamental way? Or might we benefit also from such an accelerated rhythm of the free and timely exchange of ideas? After all, we already have such forums as this as a means of asking scholarly questions on a specific topic. Why not extend this to articles as a whole? Che ne dite? Perhaps this forum could be a place to discuss this idea. I'm looking forward to hearing responses from colleagues on this proposal. Cordiali saluti. Jim Ward, Berkeley, CA Windows 7: Simplify your PC. Learn more. ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html