Editorial Note

The Emily Dickinson Journal is entering the digital age—or taking strides in that direction. Johns Hopkins University Press has invited us to participate in using Scholar One, a web-based journal and peer review tool for scholarly publishers and societies. This program customizes office management procedures, maintains (foolproof?) correspondence records and dates, tracks manuscript submissions from the moment of first submission to that of final journal editorial decision, and keeps records of all peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts. Starting April 1, all submissions to the Journal will need to go through Scholar One, at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/edj. Please see our new instructions for submission at the end of this issue. Copyediting of manuscripts and correspondence will continue to be handled through email and track changes, but everything preceding that point will go through our web-based program. With this new system, the submitter will also be required to provide "keywords" for an essay and an abstract with initial submission—although there will be opportunities to rewrite the abstract later. While we think this system will simplify and clarify bookkeeping and efficiency in the Journal offices, we imagine there will be questions and perhaps even glitches at the start. Should you have any difficulties dealing with Scholar One in submitting material to us, please contact the Journal office, at ubedj@buffalo.edu. General inquiries may go, as always, to the Journal office or to me, at ccmiller@buffalo.edu.

Back to the world of nineteenth-century poetry: last summer's "'Were I Britain born': Dickinson's Transatlantic Connections" EDIS conference produced even more than the usual number of excellent scholarly papers. Four of the five essays published in this issue stem from conference papers (and the fifth deals with Dickinson's reading of an author himself transatlantic, Henry James). We hope very much that others of you who presented at the conference will extend your presentations into scholarly essays and submit them to the Journal, and we look forward to continued work in the field of Dickinson's transatlantic, global, and U.S. connections, as well as in all fields furthering the study of Dickinson in her time and in ours.