In its fourth year of publication at the time of writing, Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS) is, by many measures, accepted as an academic resource by the community it has intended from its outset to serve. Well in excess of half a million EMLS "documents" -- papers, reviews, notes, announcements, and so forth -- have been accessed by a group consisting of some 3,500 regular readers and five times that number in occasional browsers; readers access the journal from its home site, at the University of Alberta, as well as its mirror site at Oxford University and its archive at the National Library of Canada. EMLS, also, is now indexed by the MLA International Bibliography, the Modern Humanities Research Association's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and a number of other services and databases. But, while EMLS enjoys the widespread recognition that follows from our accessibility, a number of those associated with the journal also find that EMLS now faces several questions, questions associated with introspection and self-evaluation.

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Original publication information:

Originally published in Early Modern Literary Studies 5.3 / Special Issue 4

Date: January, 2000

URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/05-3/dslwemls.htm">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/05-3/dslwemls.html

Original citation:

Early Modern Literary Studies: Negotiating the Boundaries of Interactivity in an Electronic Journal for the Humanities." Early Modern Literary Studies 5.3 / Special Issue 4 (January, 2000): 4.1-20 http://purl.oclc.org/emls/05-3/dslwemls.htm