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2014

Robert Burns

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Looking Again At James Currie’S Inventory: The Other Side Of Robert Burns’S Correspondence, Patrick Scott, Jo Durant Dec 2014

Looking Again At James Currie’S Inventory: The Other Side Of Robert Burns’S Correspondence, Patrick Scott, Jo Durant

Patrick Scott

This article provides an overview of one of the major manuscript sources on Burns’s life, the inventory of letters addressed to Robert Burns made for his first editor Dr. James Currie, and reports a number of discoveries made about inventory entries during editorial work for a preliminary edition of the letters to Burns. Based on an illustrated talk recorded for a recent Project Symposium in late October at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies.

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"Robert Burns, Open Access, And The Digital Studies In Scottish Literature", Patrick G. Scott Mar 2014

"Robert Burns, Open Access, And The Digital Studies In Scottish Literature", Patrick G. Scott

Patrick Scott

Describes the representation of the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) over the past fifty years in the journal Studies in Scottish Literature and analyzes reports on usage of the journal's recent free searchable digital version from the University of South Carolina institutional repository Scholar Commons to chart the changing international audience for Scottish literary studies and changes in how researchers discover journal articles. Concludes with brief comments on the editors' decision to make the journal open access, especially in light of recent policy proposals from United Kingdom research funding bodies.

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