Firstly, this is a research collection, not a comprehensive institutional archive. Secondly, the acquisition policy for this project came late, almost entirely after the bulk of the historical record for The Watermark had been physically stabilized and work had begun on expanding inwards toward documenting and resolving internal inconsistencies. Given that the record of holdings now, the logic behind this selectivity is as follows. 

A hard copy of Volume #4, #7, #22, #28, and #29

Physical copies of CHORD Magazine

Physical copies of Pre-2016 Writ Large / LUX (with an emphasis on LUX)

Singleton Student Publications 

What we are not looking for is non-UMass Boston publications, like student publications found on UMass Amherst (which seem to exist in abundance online going as far back as the 1970s) or UMass Dartmouth.