Linguistic Bibliography Abstracting and Indexing Service
NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics has just been accepted in the Linguistic Bibliography Abstracting and Indexing Service. Further information on this service is available at the following link: <http://bibliographies.brillonline.com/pages/lb/abstracts>. This addition will help to increase awareness of our journal.
Requirements for Submissions to NAMES
Several recent submissions to the journal indicate that authors have not paid attention to the following requirement for submissions to NAMES. We ask that all authors read and comply with this prerequisite for submissions to the journal. Following these rules will facilitate the processing of submissions, and it will expedite editorial responses. This policy was decided at the meeting of the Executive Council of the American Name Society January 2011 and published in the Editorial in NAMES 59:2 (2011), 65.
NAMES is dedicated to publishing a broad diversity of previously unpublished scholarly articles and book reviews in the field of onomastics. Authors from every corner of the world are therefore warmly encouraged to submit their work. Please be aware, however, that NAMES requires all submissions to adhere to US American English grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style. All manuscripts must be scrupulously edited before submission to ensure the highest standard of academic writing. Work with numerous factual, typographical, and/or grammatical errors will not be accepted for peer review. Before submission, it is therefore strongly recommended that all manuscripts be carefully edited for style, content, and grammar by an experienced proofreader who is a native-speaker of US American English. Any contractual arrangement, which the author(s) may enter into will, however, be exclusively the sole financial responsibility of the author(s). Please be aware that the use of professional proofreading services will in no way guarantee the acceptance of a submission by the review committee and Journal editorial staff. However, the failure to appropriately edit a submission will automatically be considered sufficient grounds for immediate, unqualified rejection.
It should be noted that Maney Publishing has an arrangement with the Charlesworth Group, which offers a 10% discount for Maney authors.
The link is: <http://www.maneyonline.com/page/authors/languageediting>.
Submissions to NAMES
NAMES, A Journal of Onomastics, publishes articles of general, theoretical, and topical interest, reviews of recent books and other significant resources, queries, notes, and comments of concern to onomastics. Reports of original research in onomastics as well as redactions and summaries of existing research are welcome. NAMES is a fully refereed journal; manuscripts of articles are read and evaluated anonymously by at least two qualified scholars. Membership in the American Name Society is not required for initial submission to NAMES; manuscripts from non- members and from scholars in related disciplines are encouraged. Once an article is accepted for publication in NAMES, the author must join the American Name Society.
Kelsie B. Harder Memorial Fund
The Kelsie B. Harder Memorial Fund was named for an outstanding teacher, scholar, and leader who, for many years, was the backbone of the American Name Society. Professor Harder was a renowned scholar of onomastics who served the ANS in many capacities including President of the Society (1982) and Editor of the journal (1966–1968; 1984–1987). He died in April of 2007. Contributions to the fund are used to support our educational programs. It is used primarily in support of students and upcoming scholars of onomastics. More information about Kelsie B. Harder is available at the following link: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsie_B._Harder>.
You may make a donation payable to the American Name Society with a designation that it go to the Kelsie B. Harder Fund. Please send checks to:
Michael F. McGoff, PhD
Senior Vice Provost
Strategic and Fiscal Planning
Binghamton University — State University of New York
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000
Necrology
Dorothy E. Litt (1921–2014) passed away on March 27 2014. She authored Names in English Renaissance Literature, a book of essays based on thirty years of research in English Renaissance onomastics. She published numerous articles on the English Renaissance for journals, including the Bulletin of the NY Public Library and the Journal of the American Name Society. She also reviewed scholarly books for this period for the Institute for Research in History, New York, and the Journal of the American Name Society. She taught at SUNY, Stony Brook.