What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist? A screenshot of the Kant Studies Online homepage, via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine That question is raised by the case of Kant Studies Online, an online only, open-access philosophy journal that published articles between 2011 and 2016, the website of which is no longer accessible. The journal was founded by Gary Banham, who died in 2013. The journal published articles through 2016, according to PhilPapers. And while there appear to be versions of some of these articles at PhilArchives (available via their PhilPapers listings), that is not the case for all of them. Nor are the journal’s articles available through archived versions of the site at the Internet Archive. The disappearance of Kant Studies Online was brought to my attention by Jef Delvaux, who writes: I am concerned about the gap in the record of Kant scholarship, more broadly I am…
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