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