We are very excited to be working with the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) to publish the Journal of the Early Republic (JER). The journal publishes work covering the period from Independence to the Civil War. SHEAR recently transitioned to a new institutional home at the Omohundro Institute, an independent research organization sponsored by William & Mary. In this Q&A, John McLeod, Chief Operating Officer and Director of the Office of Scholarly Publishing Services, discusses the journal with editors Johann Neem, Professor of History at Western Washington University, and Ronald Angelo Johnson,...