Dear IEHS Members: Please note that the Journal of American Ethnic History is now being published by the University of Illinois Press. You will be receiving a renewal notice from Illinois. Please do not send any subscription money to Transaction. New subscribers can go to the University of Illinois website to subscribe to JAEH.

...from Ronald Bayor, President, Immigration
and Ethnic History Society

Dear Colleagues:

As you may already know, the new publisher of the Journal of American Ethnic History is the University of Illinois Press which began publication with the summer 2007 issue. Our committee (Elliott Barkan, Ronald Bayor, John Bukowczyk, and Barbara Posadas) spent many hours discussing the assets and liabilities of each press that we contacted. UIP was the best choice in a number of ways. I want to thank my other committee members for their willingness to read through many contracts, hold numerous conference calls, and take time away from their own research projects in order to secure a new press. The committee has also been negotiating with JSTOR after an invitation to join that group which will provide archived JAEH issues back to volume 1, number 1.

As more libraries secure electronic access to the journal, I am trying to make membership mean more than just subscribing to the journal and receiving the Newsletter.

There are a number of upgrades on the IEHS website that are planned for next year. Some of these I mentioned in an earlier message, but I have since priced these changes and can see their implementation relatively soon. The upgrades include a curriculum exchange, a chat room for graduate students to discuss their research, and a listing of dissertation topics and completed dissertations. This list would enable graduate students to see what topics are being studied and to share research insights and sources. An active website, rather than one that is just viewed, would be useful to members.

On another issue, I would also like to encourage contributions to the George E. Pozzetta fund which provides the money for our dissertation award. George was a good friend to many of us and an untiring supporter of the IEHS. The fund needs more money in order to insure the continued awarding of the $750 prize. Contributions should be sent to the Immigration History Research Center, which administers the endowment, at Elmer L. Anderson Library, suite 311, 222 21^st Avenue, South, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

Ronald H. Bayor

President, IEHS

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