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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 13:51:50 GMT
From: Tony Kidd <T.Kidd@LIB.GLA.AC.UK>
Subject: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

I have been asked to send out the message, on Bulletin of Hispanic Studies,
given below.
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Tony Kidd, Head of Serials, Glasgow University Library,
      Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QE, Scotland, UK.
Email: t.kidd@lib.gla.ac.uk
Tel: 0141 330 6778 (UK);  (+44)141 330 6778 (non-UK)
Fax: 0141 330 4198 (UK);  (+44)141 330 4198 (non-UK)

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>>January 1997
>>
>>Dear Subscriber,
>>
>>We are writing with updated information concerning the Bulletin of Hispanic
>>Studies, which will be of interest to you as Hispanist or librarian.
>>
>>You will recall the decision reached by Lord Gill in the action unsuccessfully
>>pursued by the University of Liverpool at the Court of Session in Edinburgh
>>(November 1995) against the Editor of the Bulletin and the University of
>>Glasgow.  Lord Gill judged that Liverpool University had failed to present a
>>case to stop the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies moving its editorial and
>>publishing base to the University of Glasgow.  Lord Gill stated:
>>
>>"It is undesirable that a journal of this quality should be brought out under
>>such improvised editorial arrangements [at Liverpool] when effective editorial
>>arrangements, in keeping with established practice, are already in place [in
>>Glasgow]."
>>
>>It was open to Liverpool University - so long as this was done within one year
>>and a day from the raising of the action - to take the case further in law
to a
>>full and final judgment upon ownership.  Significantly, though
threatening, "if
>>it considers it necessary", to "pursue the issue through the Courts"
(letter to
>>the Bulletin's subscribers, 1 November 1996), Liverpool University has
taken no
>>action within the stipulated time.  Liverpool's original legal case brought to
>>achieve control of the journal has, therefore, now been dropped.
>>
>>For the first time since its relocation, the Bulletin is freed from the
>>disadvantage of litigation, and continues to be edited and published from the
>>University of Glasgow for the benefit of Hispanists throughout the world.
>>
>>The Bulletin continues to be published regularly and in good time.  All four
>>issues for 1996 appeared by October of that year - making up a Volume,
>>considerably larger than normal, of important articles and numerous
>book-reviews
>>contributed by many internationally recognized scholars.  The Bulletin's
>January
>>1997 Number, a Monographic Issue of Medieval Studies, will shortly be
>published,
>>and the production of other issues - for 1997as also for Volume Years 1998 and
>>1999 - are well advanced.  As you are already aware, the vast majority of the
>>Bulletin's contributors world wide, unwavering in their support, have
>written to
>>confirm their commitment to publishing their work - more than 200 accepted
>>articles and reviews - in the Bulletin at Glasgow.  New articles,
moreover, are
>>being consistently received for consideration, as are new books for review
from
>>publishers.
>>
>>We are pleased to record that the Bulletin's international Editorial
>Committee -
>>which moved from Liverpool with the journal - has appointed two distinguished
>>new members: Professor Paul Preston, London School of Economics, and Professor
>>Gareth Walters, University of Glasgow.  Professor C. A. Longhurst,
>University of
>>Exeter, has accepted the invitation unanimously extended by the Editorial
>>Committee, to co-edit the Bulletin - vice Dorothy Severin - with Professor Ann
>>L. Mackenzie.
>>
>>We record with equal pleasure that many subscribers, individual and
>>institutional, have already renewed their subscription to the Bulletin at the
>>University of Glasgow.  It would greatly assist the Bulletin if
>>subscriptions still outstanding could be renewed at your earliest convenience.
>>
>>Jointly signed by the Chairman of the Bulletin's Editorial Committee and the
>>Principal of the University, this letter confirms that cooperation between the
>>Editorial Committee and the University of Glasgow will develop and endure - to
>>guarantee for many years into the future the academic freedom of the
>Bulletin of
>>Hispanic Studies, its administrative and economic stability, and its
world-wide
>>reputation for the high standards of its scholarship.
>>
>>Yours sincerely,
>>
>>
>>Geoffrey W. Ribbans                   Graeme J. Davies
>>Chairman, Editorial Committee,                                  Principal,
>>Bulletin of Hispanic Studies                  University of Glasgow
>>
>>