"This is a pioneering study and represents a major undertaking. . . . Stieg succeeds in making intelligible the diffuse and highly diversified nature of the historical periodical. At minimum, this title should be required reading of all history graduate students in methodology courses. Many senior historians would also benefit from a review of its contents. . . . Information and library science students specializing in scholarly communication should digest the entire study." —Journal of Education for Library and Information Science

Margaret F. Steig (Dalton) is a professor in the University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies. She is the author of Change and Challenge in Library and Information Science Education, written with a grant from the Council on Library Resources, and Public Libraries in Nazi Germany, for which she received the first Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. She has also been the recipient of a University of Alabama Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award and the ALISE Award for Professional Contribution to Library and Information Science Education. 

"This is a pioneering study and represents a major undertaking. . . . Stieg succeeds in making intelligible the diffuse and highly diversified nature of the historical periodical. At minimum, this title should be required reading of all history graduate students in methodology courses. Many senior historians would also benefit from a review of its contents. . . . Information and library science students specializing in scholarly communication should digest the entire study." —Journal of Education for Library and Information Science

"This pioneering work charts the role scholarly historical periodicals have played, and are still playing, in the communication system of professional historians. . . .Full of facts presented in a lively fashion, very readable, well written, beautifully produced and with ample references, a lengthy bibliography, and a good index."  —Library Association Record