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Scholarly Journals in the Digital Age: Old versus New Forms of Inquiry

management. Particularly now, when libraries’ budgets are bonedry, we are encouraging scholars to give close attention to the multiple advantages of starting a new journal online. As with any new journal, it is a good idea to discuss an online journal with a university press that has a journals program, for two mammoth reasons. First, the credibility of the journal will be enhanced if it is promoted by a university press. Second, the press will normally accept the responsibility of maintaining the Web site and the archive, giving the journal a much greater chance of remaining accessible at odd hours and available years in the future. Professor English’s companion keynote article in this issue underscores the importance of a dependable Web site. Starting a journal should begin with an unshakeable determination to persevere against time, sneers, and privation. Sustaining a journal ought to depend as much on response by the scholarly community as on editorial drive. If a journal must die, or be put to rest, it should be done quickly, so that there is more grief than relief.