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A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.

A post by Emily Joan Elliott, associate director of research and publications, H-Net.

With May upon us, here at Feeding the Elephant, we will begin to post every other Wednesday through Labor Day. As many of our readers also prepare for summer break and consider tackling big projects, we wanted to share some of the highlights from our Working with Your Editor series. This summation is not necessarily comprehensive but is filled with useful tidbits.

Do you want to know something about the process that is not covered here

Scholarly Communications and Academic Publishing

Joseph Esposito, Fallout from the Implosion of Humanities Enrollments, Scholarly Kitchen, April 5, 2023.

• As students leave English and the humanities behind to pursue what they view as more lucrative fields of study, Esposito examines the implications for scholarly writing and publishing.

Todd A. Carpenter, Controlled Digital Lending Takes a Blow in Court, Scholarly Kitchen, March 29, 2023.

• The four publishers who sued Internet Archive over its National Emergency Library digital lending program won a significant victory in court.

Annette Windhorn &

A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.

Post by Dawn Durante, assistant editorial director of the University of North Carolina Press and member of the Feeding the Elephant Editorial Team

Catching smoke. Herding cats. Herding wet cats. Harder than publishing a monograph. I’d never do it again. These are the ways I’ve heard authors describe their work on an edited collection. Edited collections almost always pose challenges for volume editors, acquiring editors, and the various people working on the book throughout the publishing process. And this is okay! But it

A guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.

Guest post by Laura Ansley and Sarah Weicksel.

Okay, you’re right—scholarly societies are not university presses! But they are important scholarly publishers, so the Elephant wanted to include them in our business model series. Here, the American Historical Association’s managing editor Laura Ansley and director of research and publications Sarah Weicksel give us an overview of how society publishing works

The American Historical Association (AHA) is the largest professional organization of historians in the world

Article of interest:

Today’s post is by Curtis Brundy, Laura Hanscom, Barbara Kern, and Brigitte Weinsteiger. Curtis is the the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communications and Collections at Iowa State University. Laura is the Head of Scholarly Communication & Collections Strategy at MIT. Barbara is the Director of Sciences and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Brigitte is the Gershwind & Bennett Family Senior Associate Vice Provost for Collections & Scholarly Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. 

("Open Access to University Press Frontlists: A

Article of interest:

Jaillant, L. (2022). How can we make born-digital and digitised archives more accessible? Identifying obstacles and solutions. Archival Science  22, 417–436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-022-09390-7

Hello H-CivWar Readers:

Today we continue our conversation with Timothy R. Buckner to talk about his new book, The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered: William Johnson and Black Masculinity in the Antebellum South, published by Louisiana State University Press in August 2023.

Part 1

He is a complicated person and you make that very clear in your biography. I was especially curious how he as a free person of color fits into Natchez society, a community with many planters and large slave owners. He was also a wealthy person of color and thus an equal but not really an equal--how did he and whites