This section of the Archive offers a selection of current criticism and historical commentary. In addition to several essays reprinted with permission, we feature more than 20 full-length books. Kenneth M. Price, Ed Folsom, and Matt Miller have been successful in retaining electronic rights to their volumes published by the University of North Carolina Press, the University of Nebraska Press, and Blackwell Publishing. We have also secured permission from the University of Iowa Press to put online most volumes from the Whitman series directed by Folsom. We are grateful to each of these publishers for their generosity. Back issues of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review are also available in full text via our searchable bibliography, and 754 entries from Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia are available here.
We encourage scholars in the future to negotiate with their publishers about retaining electronic rights to their work (or at least electronic rights jointly held by the writer and by the journal or press). It is our hope that this section of the Archive will grow significantly as we secure copyright releases to more works of criticism. We strongly urge scholars to retain electronic rights by filling out a SPARC addendum to contracts, allowing for the retention of electronic rights. The well-worded addendum that can be attached to contracts is at http://www.arl.org/sparc/author.