BASOR’s New Initiative:
Publication Online and in Hardcopy
We are pleased to announce that digital versions of
the first three articles from the forthcoming BASOR 373 issue (May 2015) are now available to individual BASOR subscribers (and those whose institutions
have subscriptions) via the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program:
- Published online Mar 30, 2015: On Early Bronze Age Copper Bar Ingots from the Southern Levant (pp. 1-24)
- Published online Mar 30, 2015: Late Helladic to Middle Geometric Aegean and Contemporary Cypriot Chronologies: A Radiocarbon View from the Levant (pp. 25-48)
- Published online Mar 30, 2015: The Late Antique Church at Tall al-ʿUmayrī East: New Evidence for the Jafnid Family and the Cult of St. Sergius in Northern Jordan (pp. 49-68)
In order to access these, click the links above or please go to BASOR on JSTOR and then click on the
“Ahead of Print” link that is located towards the top of the page.
Please note that the second article listed
(Fantalkin, Finkelstein, and Piasetzky) has supplementary material accompanying
the main article. As listed in the article itself, this supplementary material is
not posted on JSTOR but rather can be found at http://www.asor.org/pubs/basor/sup.html.
Future articles with such supplementary materials will also have those
materials posted and available at the same location, which is a stable URL.
We anticipate that the next three articles will
also be posted within the next ten days to two weeks. A third set of three or
more articles may also be posted after that, time permitting. And then all of
the articles, plus some book reviews, will be published in hard copy in May. As
each set is posted and made available, we will alert all subscribers and ASOR
members, via email and other social media. We are absolutely delighted with all
of this and we are very grateful to have the full support of BASOR’s
editorial board, ASOR’s Publication Committee, and ASOR’s Executive
Director.
Henceforth, articles that have been accepted for BASOR will be uploaded to JSTOR after the
final set of page proofs for each have passed inspection and been approved.
This will usually be done in batches of two, three, four, or even more (in rare
cases), depending upon how many articles are ready at that time. This means
that BASOR subscribers who have access to JSTOR either individually or
through their universities and who wish to see and cite articles prior to the
appearance of the print edition will now be able to access digital versions of
the articles via the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program several weeks or even months
before the arrival of the print edition via postal mail twice per year (in May
and November, as per usual). The print edition and the online edition will be
identical, including pagination, but the online version will be available
first.
As those of you who have published in scholarly
journals and edited volumes know, articles can sometimes be ready for
publication long before it is time to send out the print edition (i.e., the
layout is done, typesetting is done, pagination has been added, page-proofs
have been corrected by authors, editors, and assistants, etc.). Thus, articles
often end up languishing for a few months, or even years, prior to publication
in the print edition. Because of the technology now available, we thought that
it is sensible to make articles available online as soon as they are ready for
publication, rather than waiting for the issue to be published in hard copy
each May and November. This will allow scholars to have their articles appear more
rapidly and it also allows for the readership to have earlier access to
articles as well.
Individual subscribers to BASOR, and those
whose institutions have subscriptions, will have immediate access to the
articles via the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program. Those who do not have an individual or
institutional subscription to BASOR can still get access to the articles
by paying the standard JSTOR fee for each one, though we hope that they or
their universities will consider subscribing to BASOR instead. (For those who wish to begin an individual
subscription or request that their university do so, the information can be
found at http://www.asor.org/pubs/basor/
).
We wish to reiterate that nothing will change with
regard to the “hardcopy edition.” It
will still arrive in your postal mail each May and November. It’s just that for those who wish to have
earlier access to articles, they will now be able to do so. And again, we would reiterate that the
version available online via JSTOR will be absolutely identical in every way to
the hardcopy version, including the same page numbers, figure numbers, and so
on, so that scholars can begin citing them as soon as they become available.
We are very pleased with all of the articles that
we have accepted so far and trust that you will be as well. We are especially grateful to those scholars
who entrusted their work to our hands even before they had seen our first issue
and would like to thank them for doing so. Along those lines, please allow us
to take this opportunity to mention that we are always delighted to consider
well-written, carefully documented articles for publication, but we cannot
publish your work if you do not submit it to us for consideration, so please think
about sending a manuscript our way. BASOR articles can come from a wide range of subjects, ranging from archaeology,
art, anthropology, archaeometry, bioarchaeology, and archaeozoology to biblical
studies, history, literature, philology, geography, and epigraphy. Our
geographical range is also extensive, from Israel and Canaan to ancient
Anatolia, Cyprus, Mesopotamia, Iran, Arabia, Egypt, and up into the Caucasus, and
our chronological range spans the Paleolithic period through Islamic times. Our goal is to reach a decision (with the
assistance of at least two anonymous reviewers in each case) within four weeks
of receiving a manuscript and render a verdict of Accept, Reject, or Revise and
Resubmit. We will then guide the accepted manuscripts rapidly through the
publication pipeline so as to make articles available in a timely fashion to a
broad-based readership. In this day and age, we believe that there is no reason
for scholarship to languish in a publication pipeline for months at a time and
so we would encourage all scholars with interesting ideas, results, and
discussions to submit their manuscripts to BASOR
via the online submission process at http://www.editorialmanager.com/basor/. At the present time, we are happy to consider
submissions for the upcoming November 2015 issue.
Sincerely,
Eric Cline and
Christopher Rollston, BASOR Co-Editors
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