<h2><a href="#welcome">Welcome</a> | <a href="#mission">Mission</a> |  <a href="#content">Journal Content</a> |  <a href="#editors">Editors &amp; Editorial Board</a> | <a href="#submissions">Submissions</a>

<a href="#review">Peer Review</a> |  <a href="#copyright">Copyright &amp; Licenses</a> | <a href="#publication">Publication</a> |  <a href="#design">Web Design</a> | <a href="#support"> Support</a></h2>

<a name="welcome"></a><h2>Welcome</h2>

<p class="textblock">What you see on this site is the pilot issue, published April 2011. Work is underway (as of October 1, 2011) on Issue 2, which will focus on undergraduate work in the archive. We are also accepting proposals for Issue 3, a special issue focused on data curation.</p>

<h1><a name="mission"></a>Mission</h1>

<em>Archive</em> focuses on the use and theory of archives and special collections in higher education.

<p class="textblock">The academic community has invested deeply in the preservation, use, and digitization of materials in special collections, and <em>Archive</em> provides the space to reflect on this investment. The objects and texts in special collections and archives are the focus of this journal, just as they are the focus of the many projects from and in archives that have been executed and continue with great success. Digitization efforts large and small have freed archives from the bounds of brick and mortar by bringing a wealth of texts and objects into virtual circulation. Teachers and librarians have increasingly emphasized work with original materials for students at all levels as a way to enrich student experience and position students as researchers. The use of materials in special collections as the objects of scholarly study continues to be a key methodology of humanities disciplines even as new technologies, from data mining to visualizations, open up possibilities for what scholars learn from these objects. Recent archival projects have involved multiple institutions (universities and colleges, independent libraries and archives, and non-profit organizations) and multiple constituencies (including librarians, archivists, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, university press directors, and information technologists). In this moment when archival projects, both virtual and real, have become the norm rather than the exception, <em>Archive</em> offers a way to forge connections among the projects and the communities producing them.</p>

<strong><a name="content"></a>Journal Content</strong>
<p class="textblock">The journal consists of three content areas:
<ul>
	<li><em>360°: Analysis and Discussion in the Round</em> features an asynchronous “discussion” among contributors from various backgrounds — in the form of several individual, linked essays — on a single archive or archival topic.</li>
	<li><em>Archives, Remixed: Critical Perspectives and Pathways</em> invites analytical and creative pieces that reflect on meaning-making in and through archives. The format is open to both traditional research or theoretical essays, as well as multi-modal, alternate, or experimental formats.  Contributions that analyze, use, theorize, create, find ways through, or reconstitute particular archives, objects or exhibits are invited.  Only original work that has not been published elsewhere will be accepted for publication.</li>
	<li><em>Life in the Archive</em> serves as a community space for people to share best practices, archival finds, reports from the field, and thoughts on current work in the field.</li>
</ul></p>
<strong><a name="editors"></a>Editors</strong><em>
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<th><em>Editor</em></th>
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<td class="name">Lauren Coats</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Assistant Professor of English (LSU)</td>
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<th><em>Managing Editor</em></th>
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<td class="name">Gabrielle Dean</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Curator of Modern Literary Rare Books and Manuscripts, Librarian for English and the Writing Seminars (Johns Hopkins University)</td>
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<th><em>Technical Editor</em></th>
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<td class="name">Daniel Chamberlain</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Director, Center for Digital Learning and Research (Occidental College)</td>
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<th><em>Contributing Editors</em></th>
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<td class="name">Cecily Marcus</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Curator in Archives and Special Collections (University of Minnesota)</td>
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<td class="name">Laurie N. Taylor</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Digital Humanities Librarian, Digital Library Center (University of Florida)</td>
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<th><em>Editorial Board</em></th>
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<td class="name">Wendy Hui Kyong Chun</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Professor of Modern Culture and Media (Brown University)</td>
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<td class="name">Dan Cohen</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Associate Professor, Department of History and Art History; Director, Center for History and New Media (George Mason University)</td>
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<td class="name">Sharon Farb</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Associate University Librarian (UCLA)</td>
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<td class="name">Kathleen Fitzpatrick</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Director of Scholarly Communications (MLA) and Professor of Media Studies (Pomona College)</td>
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<td class="name">Julia Flanders</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Director, Women Writers Project; Associate Director for Textbase Development, Center for Digital Scholarship (Brown University)</td>
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<td class="name">Amanda French</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>THATCamp Coordinator, Center for History and New Media (George Mason University)</td>
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<td class="name">Chuck Henry</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>President, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)</td>
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<td class="name">Patricia Hswe</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Digital Collections Curator (Penn State University)</td>
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<td class="name">Tara McPherson</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Associate Professor of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts (University of Southern California)</td>
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<td class="name">Kenneth M. Price</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>University Professor and Hillegass Chair of American Literature; Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)</td>
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<td class="name">Elliott Shore</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>CIO, Director of Libraries, and Professor of History (Bryn Mawr College)</td>
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<td class="name">Richard Szary</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Director, Louis Round Wilson Library; Associate University Librarian for Special Collections (UNC-Chapel Hill)</td>
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<td class="name">Ed Whitley</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Associate Professor of English (Lehigh University)</td>
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<td class="name">John Willinsky</td>
<td>.......</td>
<td>Khosla Family Professor of Education (Stanford University)</td>
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</table>
<strong><a name="submissions"></a>Submissions</strong>

Please review our <a href="http://archivejournal.net/journal/home/submit-to-archive-journal/">submit page</a>, if you are interested in submitting to the journal, or have any suggestions for or comments about the journal.

<strong><a name="review"></a>Peer Review</strong>

All materials in <em>Archive Journal</em> are peer-reviewed.

Peer review is central to scholarly communication by providing feedback for improvement, ensuring the quality of published materials, and validating the scholarly merit and proper credentialing of published materials. <em>Archive Journal</em>’s peer review policy is designed to achieve these goals, while also using emerging forms of peer review.  Because <em>Archive Journal</em> focuses on the use and theory of archives and special collections in higher education, offering a way to forge connections among diverse projects and the communities producing them, the review process is structured to support building connections while retaining the scholarly rigor inherent in peer review.

Our review process consists of editorial and open review in the following stages:
<ul>
	<li>Every submission is read by the Editorial Team to determine suitability for publication. The Editorial Team declines materials that are not appropriate at this stage; gives detailed feedback and the opportunity to resubmit for appropriate materials that need substantial revision; and gives feedback and facilitates the process towards publication for appropriate materials that need minor or no revisions. Because <em>Archive Journal</em> is an interdisciplinary space to forge connections and because the online format continues to evolve, this stage may include a series of back and forth feedback from the Editorial Team in order to ensure scholarly rigor, communicability across scholarly fields, and appropriateness of online display.</li>
	<li>If deemed necessary by the Editorial Team, submissions within specialized subject areas that the Editorial Team cannot assess will be sent to reviewers with the appropriate expertise. Reviewers are encouraged to provide guidance to the Editorial Team and constructive feedback for the authors.</li>
	<li>Revised submissions are reviewed after revision for final approval by the Editorial Team before publication. <em>Archive Journal</em> reserves the right to reject revised materials that are deemed not suitable for publication.</li>
	<li>Following peer review and before publication, all accepted materials are copyedited for style and consistency.</li>
	<li>All submissions will be subject to open review via reader comments. After an appropriate open review period has passed, the author(s) will have the opportunity to revise the submission. The final version will be posted and marked as such, with a clear link to the original version and associated open review comments.</li>
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<strong><a name="copyright"></a>Copyright &amp; Licenses
</strong>
Authors published in <em>Archive Journal</em> retain permanent ownership of their work via an open-access license. In order to facilitate access and preservation, <em>Archive Journal</em> retains a perpetual, non-exclusive right to publish accepted work and to include it in other aggregations and indexes. Authors are free to deposit a pre-publication version in an institutional repository, individual webpage, or similar site, as well as to reprint, reuse, or republish their work in any venue after one year.

The <em>Archive Journal</em> site is made available under the terms of a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License</a>. The license grants permission for non-commercial, attributed re-use of content that is produced by <em>Archive Journal</em>.

<em>Archive</em> has made every effort to ensure that third-party materials used in this journal and on this site follows all copyright and other restrictions. If you have any more information about an item you've seen on our website or if you are the copyright owner and believe our website has not properly attributed your work to you or has used it without permission, we want to hear from you. Please email us at <a href="mailto:contact@archivejournal.net">contact@archivejournal.net</a> with your contact information and a link to the relevant content.

<strong><a name="publication"></a>Publication</strong>

Permanent access and preservation for citation and reproducible research are core components of scholarly communication. <em>Archive Journal</em> provides permanent open, online access for all journal issues.

<strong><a name="design"></a>Web Design</strong>

<a href="http://lamppostcreative.com/">Lamppost Creative</a> serves as the current developer and designer.

<a href="http://infernalcontraption.com/">Infernal Contraption</a> provided the original design and layout.

<strong><a name="support"></a>Support</strong>

The project has been generously supported with grant funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.