Envoi Preprints and Archives

This page first posted April 30, 2000. Last modified August 16, 2005.

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Preprints

Once posted, these items will remain available on our website until the hardcopy issue is published; after that date, they will be in e-moratorium until the "moving wall" age of three years has passed. As preprints, they are not yet assured of final form; authorial revision and editiorial correction may still take place.

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Past Issues Archive

Issues of Envoi published three or more years ago are available below (follow the link to the Table of Contents page for item selection). This list will be updated semi-annually as each new issue passes behind the "moving wall" date. Because the issues have been published in hardcopy, only proofreading or style corrections will be made to these items. Should any author wish to submit a revision or other substantial comment as a postscript, it will be presented here along with the original.

We apologize for the incompleteness of this page at this time; some delays in upgrading the source PageMaker files affect availability of these items.

NEW in July 2004: PDFs of Envoi vol. 7, no. 2 (Fall 1998)
Envoi vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring 1997)
Envoi vol. 6, no. 2 (Fall 1997)
Envoi vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 1998)--PDF in process; check back soon
Envoi vol. 4, no. 1 (Spring 1992)--please note these files are HTML, and are presented as preprints only until such time as AMS Press has fulfilled their obligation to publish the issue. Preprints of the other delayed issues will follow here as time permits their preparation.

Theory of Electronic Publishing

Like The Medieval Review, we believe that book reviews should be available online. Like JSTOR, we believe that the physical layout of the hardcopy journal, including typefaces, graphics, and all other visual elements, should be reproduced exactly in a platform-independent manner. Like Exemplaria, we believe that online preprints of items in preparation allow a powerful compromise between the academic community's desire for immediate access, and the economic demand that libraries must gain a tangible benefit from their subscription payments--something they might not gain if all of a journal's contents were available online at all times. And, again like JSTOR, we believe that publication of issues of years past by way of a "moving wall" age limit also facilitates the widest distribution of content, along with a preservation of value in the library's hardcopy subscription.

Copyright: All contents are copyrighted by Envoi Publications as of their year of hardcopy publication. As is true of the hardcopy version of Envoi, the PDF documents presented above may be reproduced for nonprofit academic use only. Application for republication of any item, either by the original author or by others, should be made to Envoi by e-mail.