{"id":484170,"date":"2010-03-29T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T13:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/29\/walt-whitman-quarterly-goes-digital\/"},"modified":"2010-03-29T09:18:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T13:18:35","slug":"walt-whitman-quarterly-goes-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/484170","title":{"rendered":"Walt Whitman Quarterly Goes Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (WWQR), <\/em>a literary quarterly sponsored by the University of Iowa Graduate College and the Department of English, is now available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/wwqr\/\">http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/wwqr\/<\/a>. The official journal of the Walt Whitman Studies Association is edited at Iowa by editor Ed Folsom and managing editor Blake Bronson-Bartlett.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Less than a month after the site\u2019s public launch, <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/wwqr\/vol9\/iss4\/6\/\">The Walt Whitman Recording<\/a>, has\u00a0already become the second-most accessed item in Iowa Research Online, the university\u2019s institutional repository. The article, by Folsom, describes the rediscovery of the \u201ctape-recording of what may be an 1889 or 1890 wax-cylinder recording of Walt Whitman reading four lines of his late poem \u2018America.\u2019\u201d The audio has gained broad exposure recently\u00a0in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_uBsV8wAEhw&amp;feature=related\">Levi\u2019s\u00a0Go Forth commercial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All journal back issues, beginning with the first volume in 1983, up to one year ago are full-text searchable from the site. Current issues are accessible to subscribers only. The\u00a0site provides information about subscribing, announcements about Whitman-related matters, access to the searchable bibliography of everything written about Whitman from 1840 to the present, and up-to-date information on the census of the 1855 edition of <em>Leaves of Grass<\/em>.\u00a0Soon, articles will also be available through bibliographic entries in\u00a0the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitmanarchive.org\/\">Walt Whitman Archive<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WWQR is the latest journal to be added to <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/\">Iowa Research Online<\/a>, a dynamic archive of the research produced by faculty, researchers, and students, from published articles in peer-reviewed journals to presentations, theses, dissertations, and unpublished papers. WWQR is among four locally published e-journals hosted by the University of Iowa Libraries, with an additional two currently in production.\u00a0To find out more about the Libraries support\u00a0for locally journal publishing, see the Libraries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/ejournal.html\">e-journal hosting information<\/a>. As with all efforts related to <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/\">Iowa Research Online<\/a>, this project was part of a broader Libraries initiative to support the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/scholarly\/index.html\">transformation of scholarly communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Nicole Saylor<br \/>\nHead, Digital Library Services<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (WWQR), a literary quarterly sponsored by the University of Iowa Graduate College and the Department of English, is now available online at http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/wwqr\/. The official journal of the Walt Whitman Studies Association is edited at Iowa by editor Ed Folsom and managing editor Blake Bronson-Bartlett.\u00a0 Less than a month after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}