Not indexed by JURN, but I love the idea. The Appendix…
The Appendix is a quarterly journal of experimental and narrative history; though at times outlandish, everything in its pages is as true as the sources allow. The Appendix solicits articles from historians, writers, and artists committed to good storytelling, with an eye for the strange and a suspicion of both jargon and traditional narratives.
First issue is “sort-of” out now, with around half the articles published.
Hi — Ben, one of the editors of The Appendix, here. Thanks for the mention! JURN looks like an interesting and useful project; how would we go about being indexed? Would we only be eligible once all the issue 1 content is freely available online?
Hi Ben. I’m reluctant to index The Appendix it because the material is pseudo-scholarly, rather than because the first issue isn’t quite out yet. Personally I think that pseudo-scholarly — done wittily and with academic precision by real scholars — is very welcome fun. A sort of The Onion for scholarly historians. And I think that in this you’ve hit on an interesting new creative approach — one that plays to the strengths of the Web as a speedy and wide-ranging research tool. And it’s an approach which, as you accumulate articles, might pay off quite well in terms of adding paying advertising in sidebars. But one wouldn’t index The Onion in a straight news search-engine, and the same principle has to apply with JURN. However, I will add you to the JURN Directory, under “Odds and Ends”.