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Abstract: This essay examines the widespread phenomenon during the early Republic of 'societies of gentlemen' who edited magazines and made editorial decisions based at least in part on how a [...]

ABSTRACT Notes, in its second series, began with the December 1943 issue. The transition from an occasional, mimeographed collection of stapled sheets to a quarterly, printed periodical was accomplished by [...]

Welcome back to the second article on the transition of the ORNAC Standards to Guidelines. In this article we will introduce our validation team, discuss how we selected on sections [...]

This essay surveys some recent trends in the reviewing of research-based books on cinema. The author traces a substantial rise in the number of film books from academic presses, which have taken up titles that trade presses would have issued at earlier periods. The essay goes on to consider the roles and aims of authors, review editors, and reviewers. The essay concludes with some recommendations for improving reviewing, principally through long-form reviews published online. Keywords: Film scholarship, academic presses, book reviews, film history, film criticism, film theory, motion pictures: history and criticism., Intellectuals have despaired about book reviewing for quite a long time. Gail Pool starts her informative Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America by quoting one observer in [...]

The co-editors of New Theatre Quarterly take time out here to reflect on the milestone of the journal reaching its hundredth consecutive issue, in succession to the forty of the original Theatre Quarterly. Simon Trussler was one of the founding editors of the 'old' Theatre Quarterly in 1971. He is the author of numerous books on drama and theatre, including New Theatre Voices of the Seventies (1981), Shakespearean Concepts (1989), the award-winning Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre (1993), The Faber Guide to Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (2006), and Will's Will (2007). Formerly Reader in Drama in the University of London, he is now Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Rose Bruford College. Maria Shevtsova, who has been co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly since 2003, is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts and Director of Graduate Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. The author of more than one hundred articles and chapters in collected volumes, her books include Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance (2004), Fifty Key Theatre Directors (co-edited with Shomit Mitter, 2005), Robert Wilson (2007), Directors/Directing: Conversations on Theatre (with Christopher Innes, 2009), and Sociology of Theatre and Performance (2009). doi: 10.1017/S0266464X09000578

The importance of a formal review process and the role of editors in the publication of management-related journals and articles is discussed. Details on the Academy of Management Code of Ethics with regard to manuscripts, article reviews and other scholarly submissions on management topics are also tackled.

The Editor-in-Chief of 'Organization Studies' talks about his experiences at work. He attempted to achieve a distributed editorial structure by issuing guidelines and templates of editorial letters. He revealed that his purpose as Editor-in-Chief is to draw editors' attention to certain issues and leave them room to decide on how they wanted to write letters.

The former editor of 'Current Anthropology' and ex president of Wenner-Gren says that he realizes that the same goals set for the journal should also be the same ones pursued by the foundation. The editor reminisces on his time as editor especially with creating the electronic edition of the journal.

It is a startling reminder of the passing of time to be invited to provide some personal reflections on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Canadian Public Administration. The [...]

After receiving his B.A. in English from Tufts University in 2010, Jason Emmanuel knew that he wanted to find a job in the editorial sector of publishing. After the prerequisite [...]

@ the Table of the Great: Hospitable Editing and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project Patrick Finn St. Mary's College Patrickfinn@shaw.ca Finn, Patrick. '@ the Table of the Great: Hospitable Editing [...]