The aim of the AUS is to provide scholars working on Urdu humanities in the broadest sense a forum in which to publish scholarly articles, translations, and views. The AUS will also publish reviews of books, an annual inventory of significant Western publications in the field, reports, research-in-progress, notices, and information on forthcoming events of interest to its readers (conferences, workshops, competitions, awards, etc.). Each issue of the AUS will also include a section in the Urdu script featuring old and new writing.

The AUS is indexed by the Bibliography of Asian Studies, EBSCO Database Services (Current Abstracts, TOC Premier EBSCO, Humanities InternationalComplete and Humanities International Index), the IBZ (Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur), the Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Wissenschaftlicher Literatur, MLA Abstracts of Articles in Scholarly Journals, and the MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures, and is available in most of the major university libraries in Europe and North America.

The Annual of Urdu Studies is one of the pioneering journals selected to participate in a one-year study (which ran through Spring 2005) on preserving open access humanities journals using the LOCKSS Software (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) developed at Stanford University where the project is currently based. What this means is that any library in the world which cares to install the LOCKSS Software can now “harvest” copies of the Annual in order to preserve the content and make it available to its users should the original become unavailable from its source site, whether because of server problems on one end or network problems on the receiving end. There are presently more than 80 institutions around the world participating. The Annual of Urdu Studies was selected for inclusion by the University of Pennsylvania. [For more information about the LOCKSS Alliance see http://lockss.stanford.edu/alliance.htm].

ISSN 0734-5348
© 2008 Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia,
University of Wisconsin—Madison

It is my great pleasure as editor of the AUS, to announce the launch of its Internet edition. My own time and resources would not have allowed me to undertake such a demanding task. I’m deeply grateful for the selfless offer of three individuals to assume responsibility for generating the online edition. Two of these individuals have expressly requested to remain anonymous, but this in no way lessens my indebtedness to them. The third is Dr. Faisel Saeed. He actually put the AUS online in 2001. The Internet edition is currently maintained by the AUS Editorial Staff.

M.U.M.

Our online readers might find the following pointers helpful when navigating through the Internet edition.

Format
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Search Utility
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Diacritics, Numerals and Transliteration
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