Open but not Discoverable

Post45

• peer-reviewed journal for scholarship on postwar American literature and culture
• diamond open access & online only
• independent (not published by a university press)
• irregular publication schedule (immediate publication, no backlog)
  • single articles (2011-2019)
  • single articles & special issues (2019-present)

Finding an article from 2011

Paul K. Saint-Amour, “Counterfactual States of America: On Parllel Worlds and Longing for the Law,” Post45, September 20, 2011.

Planned Improvements

• Navigation
• Indexing
• Transparency
• Membership and Community

Special Issue Database

• Problem: lack of transparency/observability around special issues (disciplinary history & CFPs)
• Bad browsing: PMLA
  • PMLA on JSTOR
  • PMLA / Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
• Better but still bad: Representations
  • Representations Special Issues (Journal Website) (since 2001)
  • Representations on JSTOR (spotty – none listed between 2001 and 2011, 17 special issues in that interval)
  • Representations in MLA International Bibliography (also spotty: earliest listed is volume 20, missing volumes 9, 14, and 17)
• Preliminary sketch for special issue app (October 2022)