The Oral History Association , with 1,200 members, promotes oral history internationally. It included subscribers from a variety of backgrounds, including public historians, students, local historians, and university faculty members. Subscription is free and subscribers automatically receive messages in their computer mailboxes. Messages can be saved, discarded, copied, printed out, or relayed to someone else. It is like a newsletter that is free and published daily.
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It carries information about new books and commissions book reviews. We will not become an electronic journal. The editors are advised by an international editorial board broadly representative of the state of scholarship. In cases of contentious messages to the list, the editor on duty may consult with the co-editors and the editorial board to reach a decision whether to post, which will be final. Where listmembers disagree, their messages should focus on the issues and not on persons.