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