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MLA Regional Journals: Accountability, Innovation
- Journal of Scholarly Publishing
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 39, Number 1, October 2007
- pp. 308-317
- 10.1353/scp.2007.0031
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All scholarly journals face similar challenges – small audiences, tight budgets, and editorial policies and practices that sometimes harden into dogma. Modern Language Association (MLA) regional journals offer a focused example of how member-driven scholarly journals can meet these challenges and, in doing so, change our notions of what such journals can do and how they should look. As publications of smaller-scale professional organizations, MLA regional journals are in a good position to hear and act on their members' needs; when the duty of serving those members is carried out in an entrepreneurial spirit, editors open up, and can take advantage of, new opportunities for publishing.