The Rise and Fall of Periodical Studies?

Changes in technology, funding, and collaborative relationships with libraries have cast doubt on the continued development of thematic research collections centered on digitized magazines. This article discusses the differences among technologies of digital remediation and the difference between a digitized library and a digital library, and it traces the history of Blue Mountain, a multifaceted project to create digital resources for the study of avant-garde periodicals. The article concludes with a call to develop a new model of magazine digitization based on the notion of the digital edition.