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 “The world of scholarly publishing—shaken by sharp increases in both the cost and sheer volume of [bound] academic journals—cannot be sustained” remarks author Denise K. Magner. (1) Magner’s statement is supported, not just by young professional techies who wax late nights at their keyboards rigging new websites from their free or low-cost browsers, but by distinguished university colleagues, including John C. Vaughn, executive vice president of the Association of American Universities (AAU), and other members of the AAU and of the Association of Research Libraries (ARU), who created a set of  “Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing” in March 2000.

 The University of Tulsa Graduate Review, now in its second year of publication, already has met several of the standards outlined by the AAU and the ARU. Not only does the TUGR “provide affordable access to . . . relevant published scholarship across . . . disciplines for researchers, teachers, and the broader public” at the University of Tulsa, it also offers “wide access to scholarship, [and] encourage[s] interdisciplinary research.”(2) The production of the TUGR in its first year cost TU less than $500. Students from diverse departments, including petroleum engineering, literature, and psychology contributed to the first and second volumes. Both volumes have been archived, thereby creating a multidisciplinary environment. Although faculty members have not contributed to this graduate publication—yet—the students’ works demonstrate a willing attitude to share and to promote research and knowledge. Finally, the TUGR, in response to students’ repeated requests to retain their copyright to individual, especially creative, works, continues to examine ways to permit students, potential teachers, and professionals “to use their own works in their teaching and in subsequent publications,” and to investigate

any new license arrangements or proposed legislation (whether it be copyright amendments or any body of law affecting intellectual property directly or indirectly) and take appropriate action to make sure that such arrangements or legislation do not upset the balance between owners’ rights and users’ exceptions to them that has been achieved in copyright law with its provisions for fair use and library and educational exemptions.(3)

During the 1999-2000 year, the TUGR cultivated the academic internet zeitgeist at TU and in the surrounding community. To encourage its staff, student, and community members to learn more about rapid developments in online publishing, the TUGR, along with TU’s Student Research Colloquium, engaged the services of guest lecturer, William B. Taylor, former programmer for Tulsa-based SecureAgent.com and current representative of Southwestern Bell. Taylor spoke during the Third Annual Student Research Colloquium, March 16. Jessica Snyder, web consultant and director of new media and production for sagelaw.com, reviewed the website in April 2000, commending it as “readily navigable.” Snyder offered sundry suggestions, indicating that the TUGR should share links with other scholastic online journals for students and with local bookstores or publishers, thereby increasing its accessibility.

In this second volume, meet the “canine familiars” of Ben P. Robertson’s scholarly essay, “Canine Familiars of Masculinity in Three Brontė Novels.” With Maria Saaksjarvi, “compare consumer brand recognition between pure Internet brands . . . and existing brands that have extended themselves into the Internet domain,” in her abstract, “Consumer Perceptions about Cyber Versus Market Brands.”  Discover the winners of the Third Annual Student Research Colloquium by reading their abstracts. And gaze at the  “Levels of Surveillance in Agnes Grey, The Return of the Native, and The Woman Who Did” in Victoria Chance’s scholarly essay.

TUGR-ly Yours, 
Pauline Newton

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