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• Best Practices for Accessible Publishing (2016)

  | Jun 4, 2016

  The American Historical Association urges that published material be accessible to all scholars, including those with print-reading disabilities. To achieve...
• Guidelines on the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians (2015)

  | Jun 1, 2015

  The context of historical scholarship is changing rapidly and profoundly. Disciplines and universities that emerged two centuries ago in a...
• Statement on Scholarly Journal Publishing (2012)

  | Aug 13, 2012

  The current system of access to journal content certainly contains elements of unfairness, in addition to adding burdens to budgets...

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