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The Bryn Mawr Classical Review (abridged in BMCR ) is an American learned online journal broadcast in free access to the Internet, created in 1990 by a Bryn Mawr College team, located in Bryn Mawr, in Pennsylvania. It is one of the oldest online journals devoted to classic humanities [ first ] . She regularly publishes reports of readings of works on antiquity.
The Bryn Mawr Classical Review was created in November 1990 in the form of a ListServ [ first ] . The IT development of the journal has put the IT services of the BRYN MAWR College, and in particular the assistance of Ann Dixon, then Deputy Director of Computer Science, which contributed to the very first implementation of the BMCR . The website was created in 1992 with the assistance of John Price-Wilkin, who then worked at the University of Virginie [ first ] . In 1993, the site of BMCR also begins to host the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review Founded by Eugene Vance, from the University of Washington, and the site welcomes the two publications until 1997, where the Bmmr become The Medieval Review and develops an autonomous website [ first ] . From 1994 to 1999, the site received assistance from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, at a time when the Foundation develops a project to follow the development of online journals [ first ] . Between 1998 and 2000, the Center for the Study of Architecture of Bryn Mawr College published an independent online review, the Bryn Mawr Electronic Resources Reviews , which ceases to appear after 2000 and whose archives are integrated into that of the BMCR [ 2 ] . In , the journal has a blog which provides additional medium to the publication of new reports [ 3 ] .
The Bryn Mawr Classical Review is part of Bryn Mawr Commentaries, a non -profit organization that publishes in paper form Bryn Mawr Greek Commentaries and the Bryn Mawr Latin Commentaries ; the benefits of sales of these comments finance the publication of the Bryn Mawr Classical Review on its various supports [ 3 ] . The BMCR is broadcast through the website (in HTML format), or by e-mail in the form of a broadcast list. It is also possible to order paper copies.
The BMCR Publish reports of learned publications, monographs or collections of articles. The very detailed reports are made by teacher-researchers from several universities around the world, and can be written in variable languages (the BMCR Accepts reports in German, French, Italian or Spanish) [ 4 ] . They are subject to the same requirements as university articles and are reviewed and corrected in collaboration with the editorial committee before publication [ 4 ] . The reports are published as they are ready, without a fixed periodicity. The Revue website contains a list of books to criticize, that it is possible to receive if you want to read them and make the reports.
The Revue website, in its architecture of , consists of pages written in HTML. It contains: a home page; A “Read Latest” page bringing together links to the latest reports; an “archive” page allowing access to older reports; A about page presenting the review and a “Editorial Board” page detailing the composition of its editorial committee; A “Reviewers’ Guidelines” page presenting the instructions for the writing of reports; A page “Books available for reviews” bringing together the books available for future reports; and a page presenting the Bryn Mawr Commentaries .
- O’Donnell, J.J., « Five Years of Bryn Mawr Classical Review », The Serials Librarian , 1996, 28 (3-4), pp. 223-228.
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