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After having launched the collection Référentiels and The Arkeotek Journal, published by the Editions Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and the Editions Epistèmes. Arkeotek intends to provide a methodological support,
financial or technical, to authors and editors wishing to develop
SCD-formatted publications on archaeological topics, especially on the
archaeology of technology and techniques.
Through such a support, Arkeotek hopes to establish a network of authors and editors interested in constituting thematic logicist corpus around a communal format.
More generally, Arkeotek has fixed its objective as the development of
a common set of scientific communication and information tools
(dictionaries, manuals, bases of secondary sources) for all the
archaeological community.
In this perspective, Arkeotek proposes free access on line to sold out books in the domain of the archaeology of techniques.
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The collection Référentiels |
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The collection Référentiels was launched by the Editions Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and the Editions Epistèmes. It was created following the publication of Valentine Roux's book, Cornaline de l'Inde. Des pratiques techniques aux techno-systèmes de l'Indus . 2000, Editions de la MSH, Paris.
Those responsible include: Valentine Roux and Blanche Barthélemy de Saizieu.
The collection Référentiels
has two primary objectives: to improve the accessibility of scientific
texts by revealing their logico-discursive operations, and to promote
the verifiability of hypotheses, notably by publishing the data bases
employed. To such ends, the collection profits from the opportunities
offered by electronic editions. All the books of the collection are in
a hybrid paper/electronic form: a short book presents the thesis,
perspectives, and critical discussions of the work; the electronic
support is dedicated to a rapid but exhaustive lecture of scientific
constructs and their data bases.
By addressing the persistent
problem of reading overload and of the auto-archiving of scientific
data, the editorial models raised for this collection also favor
knowledge transfer, the training of researchers and interdisciplinary
research. In the long run, such publications in their electronic form
will be able to integrate specialized knowledge bases.
First issues available :
Gelbert A. 2003. Ceramic traditions and technical borrowings in the Senegal Valley, Paris, Editions de la MSH / Editions Epistèmes, 101 p. Cédérom bilingue inclus.
Boileau, M.-C. 2005. Pottery Production and Distribution in Third Millennium Northeast Syria, Paris, Editions de la MSH / Editions Epistèmes, 95 p. cédérom bilingue français/anglais inclus.
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Exclusively available online, The Arkeotek Journal is a peer-reviewed
scientific journal devoted to the archaeology of techniques. Articles
are published following new writing practices meant to facilitate the
reading of scientific constructs, the exhaustive publication of
research data and the automatic building-up of logicist corpus.
The Arkeotek Journal's objectives are to promote both knowledge sharing among researchers and cumul of knowledge in the domain of the archaeology of techniques. Such a concern is both epistemological and practical : the Journal is free access for all readers worldwide.
The Arkeotek Journal's ambition is to become a first-rank, worldwide multilingual journal.
Scientific Field
The
Arkeotek Journal publishes studies in the domain of the archaeology of
techniques which deals with various materials (stone, bone, pottery,
yarn, shell, wood, etc.) and varied chronocultural contexts. Research
in prehistory and proto-history is given priority as there is a large
number of significant technological studies covering those periods,
thus making it possible, from now on, to build up significant logicist corpus.
Author benefits
For authors, the expected benefits when publishing in The Arkeotek Journal are varied:
- Instant and free access for all readers worldwide
- Visibility
and legibility of results thanks to the original mode of publication
which allows the reader to rapidly apprehend the article in a more
precise form than current summary methods
- Organized,
secure, definitive archiving which makes all your research data open to
readers worldwide (authors benefit from the Journal team's experience
in the organization of your data)
Languages of the Journal
The
Arkeotek Journal is a bilingual French-English publication. The
publishing procedures are drafted in English and French only. In the
future, translation into additional languages could be undertaken from
the final version of the digitized text depending on the budget.
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