From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:11:49 -0800

Thank you.

But why its impact factor is so low, 0.5-0.6?

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/past/editorial_board.html

Or is it a standard one in humanities for now?  Or was it higher in
the "early glorious" period?

Ari Belenkiy
Vancouver BC


On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 4:04 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 14:44:56 -0700
>
> I would look up articles there by Lawrence Stone, Brent Shaw, Chris
> Wickham, Jacques LeGoff, Bossy himself, or just Grafton and Jardine's
> classic "How Harvey Read His Livy".  The general recognition that it
> is a journal to be reckoned with is undoubted, even by those who
> remonstrate with its politics.  My point in mentioning it here was
> that (a) they just did something interesting and (b) the something
> interesting (making the work of deceased worthies permanently
> OA-accessible) is replicable wherever one sees merit in scholarly
> journals whose product is expected to have a lasting value.  The value
> of that idea is independent of individual assessments of the status of
> the journal.
>
> Jim O'Donnell
> ASU
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:15 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 21:58:31 -0800
> >
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > Can you please recall the "stellar" articles published at P&P?
> >
> > I might consider a submission on history of literature.
> >
> > Ari Belenkiy
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:49:22 -0700
> >>
> >> This interesting note crossed my screen today:
> >>
> >> http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/past/john-bossy.html
> >>
> >> Past and Present is a stellar journal -- career-making to have a
> >> couple of articles in it; and Bossy was a path-breaker and innovator
> >> and very distinguished scholar.  I like to see this because I worry
> >> that scholars are only slowly realizing that if they want their own
> >> work to be known and read and influential when they are retired or
> >> gone, making sure paper copies are in libaries and paperbacks are
> >> available for sale form a good university press just won't do it.
> >> Even a Bossy isn't going to make much money for his estate when dead,
> >> and certainly not from P&P articles, so better to work out the way to
> >> make the scholar known and visible and discoverable.
> >>
> >> Jim O'Donnell
> >> ASU