HABSBURG is devoted to the history and culture of the former Habsburg
lands and peoples from about 1500 until this century. It is edited by
Franz Adlgasser of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Joe Patrouch of Florida International University, Heather Morrison of the State University of New York at New Palz, John Swanson of Utica College, Jonathan Kwan of the University of Nottingham, Hugo Lane, an independent scholar, and Jim Brown of Elon University.
As editors they review all submissions for relevance and professionalism.
HABSBURG is a member of H-Net, an independent, international consortium
of scholars with primary computer hosts at Michigan State University. We
are affiliated with the Center for Austrian Studies, the Society for
Austrian and Habsburg History, and the American Association for the Study
of Hungarian History.
All postings to HABSBURG are archived on the web (see C. below).
A. FUNCTIONS of HABSBURG:
establish an instantaneous, trans-oceanic link between
historians in the field. The current membership represents over a dozen
countries.
commission, post, and archive reviews and other contributions to
scholarship by our members
promote the discussion and debate of provocative historical
issues,including those raised by recent historical publications or
current events
allow individuals to make announcements of a professional nature
share ideas about teaching Habsburg or East Central European
history
HABSBURG is not designed to duplicate or compete with related public
affairs groups, but only to complement them by providing a scholarly,
historical forum for rapid interaction. Nor is it designed to assist
students in preparing undergraduate-level writing assignments, such as
term papers or book reports.
B. QUERIES ON HABSBURG
You are welcome to post queries to the list if they fall within the scope
of the list and go beyond simple library reference questions. The editors
will return any research problem to the originator for elaboration that
does not describe it in sufficient detail to interest the general
membership and provide a basis for discussion, or that does not indicate
what sources you have already consulted. In September 1997 HABSBURG
adopted guidelines for questions posted to the list. You may view them on
our home page at http://h-net2.msu.edu/~habsweb/welcome.html or retrieve
them from the Purdue server with the command: get habsburg queryguide.
C. COPYRIGHT CONSIDERATIONS:
H-Net Copyright Policy interprets the present copyright law as protecting
the rights of all authors of postings to HABSBURG and other H-Net lists,
without the need to register them or to include a copyright statement.
The "fair use" provisions apply to these postings as well as to print
publications, allowing limited distribution of the postings under certain
conditions without prior approval, including re-posting to other H-Net
lists and inclusion in the H-Net logs.
H-Net regards commissioned reviews as works-for-hire and asserts all
rights for the electronic reproduction of this work except fair use.
