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Now available online. 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. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/6216u305605t7740/?p=786ad60e6e7744e 49a4a615d8237afcb <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/6216u305605t7740/?p=786ad60e6e7744 e49a4a615d8237afcb&pi=0> &pi=0 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.3.257 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. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/w6w807047jk71111/?p=786ad60e6e7744e 49a4a615d8237afcb <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/w6w807047jk71111/?p=786ad60e6e7744 e49a4a615d8237afcb&pi=1> &pi=1 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.' http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/d82jn230g70q84n6/?p=786ad60e6e7744e 49a4a615d8237afcb <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/d82jn230g70q84n6/?p=786ad60e6e7744 e49a4a615d8237afcb&pi=2> &pi=2 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.3.322 Reviews Steven E. Gump http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/e7874t658528883w/?p=786ad60e6e7744e 49a4a615d8237afcb <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/e7874t658528883w/?p=786ad60e6e7744 e49a4a615d8237afcb&pi=3> &pi=3 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.3.336 Letter to the Editor Bonnie Wheeler http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/d8237p8089173051/?p=786ad60e6e7744e 49a4a615d8237afcb <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/d8237p8089173051/?p=786ad60e6e7744 e49a4a615d8237afcb&pi=4> &pi=4 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.3.344 Journal of Scholarly Publishing A must for anyone who crosses the scholarly publishing path - authors, editors, marketers and publishers of books and journals. For more than 40 years, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing has been the authoritative voice of academic publishing. The journal combines philosophical analysis with practical advice and aspires to explain, argue, discuss and question the large collection of new topics that continuously arise in the publishing field. 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