Of course, not all our volunteers are so committed to the community. This nag goes out only after the reviewer is three to six months late. The kind of community I'm describing here is, to use the current jargon, a virtual community. If the JAH is to be located in Southern Indiana, it must be in Bloomington, the home of Indiana University. Academic journals obviously need university people for staff, especially faculty and graduate students.
Authors use libraries to conduct research for articles.
It is both part of a library's collections and a library finding guide. In other words, readers need a library to operate a journal properly. We can't fact-check the accuracy of every statement or note, but we can check many of them, simply by strolling over to the Indiana University library. In each issue we list all American history articles that have been published in some 650 scholarly journals. We receive some of these journals in editorial exchanges.