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OAH to post recent scholarship online only to save money

To save money, the strapped Organization of American Historians plans to begin exclusively posting recent scholarship online. Formerly, new scholarship was published in the pages of the Journal of American History. The change takes place starting in June.

The news was announced by Journal editor Edward T. Linenthal at the organization's annual business meeting today.

Linenthal says the move will save the OAH $20,000 a year.

He said this was the only major change he plans to make in the near future. He took over as editor last year.
Read entire article at Rick Shenkman reporting for HNN