Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Tony Kidd) Marcia Tuttle 10 Aug 1999 17:33 UTC
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:11:37 +0100 From: T.Kidd@lib.gla.ac.uk Subject: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies I have been asked to forward the following message concerning the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Please contact the Editors (see final paragraph of letter) if you have queries. --------------------------------------------------------- Tony Kidd, Head of Serials, Glasgow University Library, Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QE, Scotland, U.K. Email: t.kidd@lib.gla.ac.uk <mailto:t.kidd@lib.gla.ac.uk> Tel: 0141 330 6778 (UK); +44 141 330 6778 (non-UK) Fax: 0141 330 4198 (UK); +44 141 330 4198 (non-UK) ------------------------------------------------------ July 1999 Dear Subscriber/Librarian, BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES: 75 YEARS ISSN 0007-490X The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, founded by E. Allison Peers in 1923, has completed seventy-five years of continuous publication. In its first decades, as a private venture founded by Professor Peers to promote Hispanism, it had the title Bulletin of Spanish Studies. The Bulletin adopted its present title in 1949. On Peers' death in 1952, the Editorial Committee, which the founder had established to ensure the continuation of the journal, decided to publish the Bulletin through the University of Liverpool. In the early 1990s the intellectual and scholarly freedom of BHS came under increasing threat because of changes within the University of Liverpool, and in 1995 both General Editors recommended to the Editorial Committee that the journal's future should be secured by agreement with the University of Glasgow. The Editorial Committee unanimously accepted this advice in August 1995, and the move of BHS to Glasgow University took place in the Autumn of that year. The continuity of the Editorial Team and of the Editorial Committee is, therefore, unbroken. The vast majority of all contributors of articles and reviews awaiting publication at the time of the move registered their support for editing and publishing the Bulletin from the University of Glasgow. The move to Glasgow has also been welcomed by the Hispanist Trustees of the E. Allison Peers Estate. The Editors and Editorial Committee, together with the University of Glasgow, welcome the decision of the University of Liverpool to launch a new journal in the Hispanic field, but they deeply regret that Liverpool University, by using for its new journal the title and ISSN number of the existing Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, has caused considerable confusion to Hispanists, scholars at large and librarians. Following the decision reached by Lord Gill at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, in the action unsuccessfully pursued in 1995 by Liverpool University against the University of Glasgow, the ISSN UK Centre, the British Library, UK confirmed that the publication by Liverpool University Press, to which it allocated a new ISSN, is a new journal started in 1996. The original Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, started in 1923, which is now published by Carfax Publishing, Oxfordshire, on behalf of the University of Glasgow, has the sole right to use ISSN 0007-490X. In view of the widespread confusion, disruptive to normal subscription arrangements, caused by Liverpool University's misuse of the Bulletin's ISSN Number etc., please double-check that you and your library are, in fact, receiving the original Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, started in 1923. The original Bulletin, which no longer has any publishing and editorial connections whatsoever with Liverpool University, carries on its front cover, the Carfax logo, and, as its editorial location, the 'University of Glasgow'. For further information,contact The Editors, Dept of Hispanic Studies, Hetherington Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QR, Scotland. Fax number (+44) 151-609-1604; e-mail BHS@gla.ac.uk Yours sincerely, GEOFFREY W. RIBBANS GRAEME J. DAVIES Chairman, Principal, Editorial Committee, University of Glasgow Bulletin of Hispanic Studies ---------------------------------------------------------