We are pleased to report that, with the recent addition  of volumes 1-12, the full run of Studies in Scottish Literature is now freely available on the Web at: http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/.  Together with what had previously been digitized, this makes available 39 volumes, with over 800 articles and a total of over 7000 pages, published over a period of fifty years (1963-2013). 

As well as articles on specific Scottish authors or works, the added volumes have now made accessible two pioneer (and polemic) essays arguing for the importance of the field:   Tom Scott’s “Observations on Scottish Studies,” the lead article in the journal’s first number, at  http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol1/iss1/2/ , and Sydney Goodsir Smith’s follow-up “Trahison des Clercs, or the Anti-Scottish Lobby in Scottish Letters,” at http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol2/iss2/2/.   These essays were the starting-point for the symposium, “The Present State and Future(s) of Scottish Literary Studies,” opening the journal’s new series (http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol38/iss1/),  with contributions from Murray Pittock, Gerard Carruthers, Leith Davis, Matthew Wickman, Willy Maley, and  Caroline McCracken-Flesher. 

The digital Studies in Scottish Literature is part of the University of South Carolina Libraries’s institutional repository Scholar Commons.  Since the first tranche of digital volumes was released in August 2012, the journal has had nearly 70,000 full-text article-downloads, with searches from addresses linked to over 120 different countries.

The journal is also still published in hard copy, published as a print-on-demand paperback, and  available from such on-line vendors as Amazon and Amazon UK.