We're delighted to announce the launch of our free digital archive, ir.uiowa.edu/iowareview, which contains the full text of virtually all the writing published in The Iowa Review from its founding in 1970 through 2011. The archive comprises 130 issues of the magazine and 5,752 individual poems, essays, and stories, searchable by volume, author name, and title. The site also includes links to the most frequently downloaded pieces, as well as a world map displaying real-time readership.
Issues from the most recent three years continue to remain accessible only to subscribers, bookstore patrons, and those who order copies through our website. Excerpts of work from the current and recent issues appear at iowareview.org/content/issues.
We partnered with the University of Iowa Libraries’ Iowa Research Online service, which preserves and provides open access to the UI’s scholarly and creative work, and the digital library JSTOR, which creates a digital archive of the magazine’s back issues. UI digital scholarship librarian Wendy Robertson developed the site’s data infrastructure and user interface.
Many thanks to Wendy and her team at the UI Libraries! Happy reading, all.
