Talk:BYU Studies

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the BYU Studies article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Brigham Young University Low‑importance

	BYU Studies is part of WikiProject Brigham Young University, an attempt to write quality articles about Brigham Young University. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.Brigham Young UniversityWikipedia:WikiProject Brigham Young UniversityTemplate:WikiProject Brigham Young UniversityBrigham Young University articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Latter Day Saint movement Low‑importance

	Latter Day Saint movement portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Latter Day Saint movementWikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movementTemplate:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movementLatter Day Saint movement articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Academic Journals

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Academic Journals, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Academic Journals on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Academic JournalsWikipedia:WikiProject Academic JournalsTemplate:WikiProject Academic JournalsAcademic Journal articles
See WikiProject Academic Journals' writing guide for tips on how to improve this article.

Paid access

It looks like all BYU studies articles going back to 1959 are now only downloadable with either a paid subscription or a payment per download. Anyone know when this happened? I can still see things on their site (here) where they say everything is free up to the most recent 2 years, and I remember downloading some content about a month ago, I think. ——Rich jj (talk) 21:43, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1925 series

The Encyclopedia of Mormonism has a nice list of LDS Church periodicals in its Appendix 3. On the second page it says BYU Studies was first published between 1925-37 before starting again in 1959. What on earth is this 1925-37 period? I've never seen anything related to this before. I am inclined to think it is an accident. The unidentified author of Appendix 3 should certainly have known better, since many of the EOM authors were very familiar with the journal, many having worked at BYU, many having published in the journal, and many using BYU Studies as a source in these very EOM articles. This list even sorted BYU Studies chronologically in the 1920s. Strange. ——Rich jj (talk) 21:04, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

After some searching, I've found mention of this earlier obscure journal. It's not a mistake.

Found in the Church History Library catalog
Found in the BYU Library Catalog
Mentioned in the BYU library register for BYU Studies Administration Files
Listing from the Hathi Trust Digital Library
Listing from WorldCat alongside holdings of the 1959 series (though I can't tell which are the two libraries that hold this 1925 series)
Cited in Walker, Whittaker, and Allen's Mormon History (see footnote 41)

It looks pretty obscure and I'm not sure in what way it should be mentioned in this article. ——Rich jj (talk) 16:55, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]