The Catholic Historical Review ( CHR ) is the official organ of the American Catholic Historical Association . It was established at The Catholic University of America in 1915 by Thomas Joseph Shahan and Peter Guilday and is published quarterly by The Catholic University of America Press . The first issue contained a foreword by Cardinal James Gibbons who wrote of the journal that "I bespeak for it a generous welcome by the thoughtful men and women of the country, and bestow my blessing on the unselfish, zealous labors of the devoted Faculty of the Catholic University." Nelson Minnich is the editor.
16-514: With an international readership and a global array of contributors, CHR publishes significant, original, and preferably archival-based articles in English on topics related to the history of various lived Catholic experiences and their intersections with cultures and other religious traditions over the centuries and throughout the world. In addition, the periodical publishes reviews (single, fora, essays, and articles) written by experts of important books in
32-598: A database that contains the complete text of books , dissertations , journals , magazines , newspapers or other kinds of textual documents . They differ from bibliographic databases (which contain only bibliographical metadata , including abstracts in some cases) and non-bibliographic databases (such as directories and numeric databases ). One of the earliest systems was IBM STAIRS , introduced in 1973. Full-text databases became common about 1990 when computer storage technology made them economic and technologically possible. There are two main classes: an extension of
48-536: A new interface was launched which incorporated its current journal collection with electronic books published by members of the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC). The platform is powered by the WAIS searching utility called SWISH (Simple Web Indexing System for Humans), which allows Boolean searching in single issues, volumes, or across all 40+ titles. In cases where footnotes exist in articles,
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112-684: The University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) Book Collections on Project MUSE was established. Launched in January 2012, the UPCC Book Collections consist of thousands of peer-reviewed book titles from major university presses and related scholarly publishers. Book collections are fully integrated with MUSE's electronic journal collections, allowing users to search across books and journals simultaneously or limit searches by content type. In 2016, it launched an initiative to create an open access platform that also digitized out-of-print scholarly books under
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#1732858819192192-545: The field, lists relevant articles that appear in other journals, and includes the section "Notes and Comments" containing news about the Association and other items of interest to readers. Any scholar may submit a manuscript, which is subjected to a rigorous double-blind evaluation. In addition to being available in print form, The Catholic Historical Review is also available electronically through Project MUSE . This article about an academic journal on Catholic studies
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