Article: Digitizing the Past: Using Electronic Texts in Scholarship and the Classroom

As we contemplate the future of publishing in the academy, particularly as it relates to the many texts written by women that are currently unavailable in print, discussions often turn to the supplementary possibilities of electronic texts. We could circumvent the inherent difficulties of the traditional publishing formats, proponents suggest, by using the electronic medium to produce and distribute texts that are out of print, have never been republished, or need updated editions. Many projects are already underway that demonstrate the scholarly and pedagogical potential that electronic texts could have in the humanities, and such projects can serve as valuable indices to the creation and ...

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