Interesting News: Pronetos Founders Launch Open Access Press

Pronetos Founders Launch Open Access Press

May 30, 2009 – 2:04 pm

Seeking to fill a void in the scholarly publications realm, the founders of Pronetos are this week issuing a sneak preview of Open Access Press. Open Access Press helps scholars and learned societies in the humanities and social sciences bring print journals on line. Using the world’s most ubiquitous journal management platform, the Open Journal System, Open Access Press works with publishers to convert existing journals to an online, Open Access format, or create a new digital Open Access Journal. More details will follow next week. Sneak peak at http://openaccesspress.com.

Catalogue of Russian Dissertations

A large catalogue of Russian dissertations is now available online. There is a substantial selection of archaeology titles, many, perhaps most of them otherwise unavailable. The titles listed appear to be machine translated into English. Twenty-five page samples of each title are offered, but were not available for any that I tried.

The service promises, for a reasonable fee, to be able to supply a pdf of the each dissertation in one day, or for slightly more a pdf + machine translation in two days. Prices for pdf + professional translation depend on the size of the work and requires 5-10 days.

I have not yet tried to order a copy. If anyone has, I would appreciate comment below.

A couple of open access archaeology journals

Archeologické rozhledy

Journal of reviewed articles, founded 1949, focused on the history of Man and his material culture, environmental changes or modern methods of archaeology, especially in the region of Central Europe, publishes brief original studies, contributions and discussions, reviews of Czech and foreign literature.

Revue archéologique de l’Est (RAE)

La Revue archéologique de l’Est (RAE) publie, dans un volume annuel de 300 à 400 pages, les résultats les plus importants des recherches archéologiques menées dans l’Est et le Centre-Est (Alsace, Bourgogne, Champagne-Ardenne, Franche-Comté, Lorraine et nord de Rhône-Alpes). C’est une des revues interrégionales d’archéologie soutenues par le ministère de la Culture et le CNRS. Fondée en 1950, elle est éditée par la Société archéologique de l’Est (SAE), association loi de 1901 basée à l’Université de Dijon, au sein des locaux de l’UMR 5594-ARTeHIS, à laquelle elle est étroitement liée.

Revue archéologique du centre de la France

La Revue archéologique du centre de la France fait partie du réseau de publications interrégionales d'archéologie soutenues par le ministère de la Culture et le CNRS. Son ressort géographique concerne les régions Auvergne, Centre et Île-de-France, ainsi que le département de la Loire (région Rhône-Alpes). Elle a été fondée en 1962 à Vichy et publiée successivement à Lyon puis Tours, où le laboratoire Archéologie et territoires (UMR CITERES) en assure désormais la responsabilité. Elle couvre l’archéologie de toutes les périodes, depuis la Préhistoire la plus ancienne jusqu’à l’archéologie industrielle et des Temps Modernes.

Open access journals at DigiZeitschriften

• Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum


• Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters, 1951 - 2004

• Deutsches Archiv für Geschichte des Mittelalters, 1937 - 1944

• Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für Ältere Deutsche Geschichtskunde zur Beförderung einer Gesamtausgabe der Quellenschriften deutscher Geschichten des Mittelalters, 1876 - 1935

• Archiv der Gesellschaft für Ältere Deutsche Geschichtkunde zur Beförderung einer Gesammtausgabe der Quellenschriften deutscher Geschichten des Mittelalters, 1820 - 1874

Others are available via DigiZeitschriften's subscription component.

e-kitap: Arkeoloji

[Originally posted 9/25/09. Updated 26 May 2015: For newer links to these and many more volumes on Turkish archaeology see Seven Open Access Turkish Archaeological Journals]

e-kitap: Arkeoloji

• Kazı Sonuçları Toplantıları
• Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantıları
• Arkeometri Sonuçları Toplantıları
• Müze Çalışmaları ve Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu Yayınları
• Türk Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Dergisi
• Türk Etnografya Dergisi (1956-1997)
• Türk Arkeoloji Dergisi (1933-1997)
• E-Kitaplar

Open access journals from the Instituto de Estudios Islámicos y del Oriente Próximo

Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente Antico (SEL)

SEL es una publicación de periodicidad anual que acoge artículos de investigación de caracter epigráfico, lingüístico, histórico e histórico-religioso cuyo objeto sea la documentación escrita de las culturas próximo-orientales preclásicas.

La publicación en papel está a cargo de la editorial Essedue Edizioni. Hasta el momento se han publicado 21 números, del número 1 (1984) al número 21 (2004).

La publicación electrónica corre a cargo del IEIOP. Se ha iniciado con el número 17, correspondiente al año 2000. Próximamente se irán añadiendo los números anteriores a esta fecha y los posteriores una vez pasados tres años de su publicación.

Estudios de Dialectología Norteafricana y Andalusí (EDNA)

Revista especializada en los estudios de dialectología árabe, concretamente la zona occidental (Alandalús y el Magreb).

La edición de los dos primeros números la llevó a cabo el Área de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos de la Universidad de Zaragoza, del tercero al quinto la Institución "Fernando el Católico", y los volúmenes 6 y 7 fueron una coedición de la anterior institución y del Instituto de Estudios Islámicos y del Oriente Próximo (IEIOP) de Zaragoza. A partir del número 8 es una edición exclusiva del IEIOP. Hasta la fecha se han publicado diez volúmenes: desde el número 1 (1996) hasta el número 10 (2006).

A couple of journals

Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage: Historical-Technical Journal
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage ISSN 1973-9494 - Quaderni di Scienza della Conservazione ISSN 1973-9486

The main topics covered by this journal are:
• historical-artistic knowledge of cultural heritage (author, artistic movement, artistic age, artistic techniques, educational society and characteristics of its culture, socioeconomic context, the people ordering and financing the masterpieces and target
audience)
• document and information research
• book production in its historical context
• use of appropriate methodologies and analytical techniques for the characterization
of historical masterpieces that are part of the cultural heritage and for the evaluation
of the preservation state
• environmental monitoring: assessment of atmospheric pollution and correlated decay
of monuments and historical-artistic setting
• micro and macroclimatic monitoring in confined spaces (museums, libraries, archives,
churches...)
• artistic diagnosis
• experiences in cultural heritage conservation
• problems in the operating process of restoration
• valuation of suitability of products used for restoration, conservation, and maintenance
of cultural heritage
• computer science and cultural heritage: methods for data elaboration and cataloguing
• virtual revising of written texts and illustrated books
• study and enhance the value of archives and book documents
• setting of historical architectures
• conservation, cataloguing and elaboration (virtual or not) of photographs
• others (education, safeguard and conservation...)

Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries
ISSN: 1877-7015

The Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries offers the opportunity to the archaeological community to present its research to a wider, international audience. It will cover the full archaeological time scale, from the earliest Palaeolithic up till investigations of subrecent times, like those of shipwrecks and fortifications. With the ‘Low Countries’ of the title both The Netherlands, Belgium and adjacent areas are meant, or - in geographical terms - the Lower Rhine Basin. The Journal is open to all contributions on research within or of relevance for this region. The main focus of the journal is our understanding of former societies, their differentiation and changes through time, and their relation to the natural environment, not only within the narrow limits of the main area of interest, but essentially in relation to wider patterns and developments. The Journal welcomes contributions ranging from theoretical reflections, broad overviews and analyses to the presentation of data and (recent) discoveries, which are of more than local interest. The Journal distinguishes main articles of 5000-10.000 words and short contributions of 1000-2500 words.

The Journal is open to contributions of academic level, irrespective of the employment and nationality of the authors. It is explicitly meant for both the academic world as well as those working in the so-called commercial or contractual archaeology. An Editorial Board of seven members, with expertise in the main fields covered by the Journal and supported by an editorial secretary, will be responsible in the first line for the assessment of the relevance of the papers. External peers will assess the papers offered purely on their scientific merits, before they are accepted for publication.

The Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries is basically published as an e-journal, but also available in the Printing on Demand option, both as a subscription on the series as for the individual volumes. There will be two issues each year in May and October.