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MESA
On-Line Review
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March 2009
Dear Friends of the MESA Bulletin,
As you've noticed, the Bulletin has not been posting new material to this website since 2005.
We are very much still in business, though! Our most recent issue, volume 41, number 2 (Winter 2007), was published in September 2008, after some delay due to the transition of the editorial office from New York to North Carolina. If you have not received a copy of this issue, or any previous issues, please email Sara Palmer (palmers@email.arizona.edu).
Our next issue, volume 42 (1 & 2, a special double issue) for 2008, is currently in production, and will be in print soon.
We are currently in discussion with Cambridge University Press about the possibility of placing the Bulletin's current content on Cambridge Journals Online, and providing them with the complete run of the Bulletin's past issues for their online archive service. The benefit of this move would be to make the journal's content easily searchable, and available on a constantly upgraded platform. The downside would be that access to most of the Bulletin's content in electronic form would be hidden behind a pay wall, and available only for a (small) fee. While MESA has traditionally favored making the Bulletin's contents open and freely available, it is sometimes difficult to maintain this practice with the human, financial, and technological resources available.
We welcome your comments on the future direction of the electronic form of the MESA Bulletin as it takes on its new identity as the Review of Middle East Studies, with Volume 43, number 1 in Summer of 2009. Please feel free to contact the editor, Gregory Starrett, at mesabulletin@uncc.edu to let us know what you think. |
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