[Bonetools] nanterre publication

[Elisabeth Ann Stone]

hi Isabelle and all,

I can also help with English and with translation problems from Spanish.

I believe that a hard copy generally still has greater acceptance
among scholars, so I think that is the best option, but we could
explore ways of dually publishing online (perhaps free for members
only or something along those lines would be acceptable to a
publisher) and in hard copy??

best wishes....
Beth




On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Alice Choyke <h13017cho at iif.hu> wrote:
> Dear Vivian,
>       If the WBRG meeting in Paris was an independent meeting of interested
> scholars I would, more or less, agree with you. A bi-lingiual volume would
> be only to the good. However, the WBRG is a working group of ICAZ. There has
> been a unstated policy of all ICAZ working groups to publish everything
> submitted after the conference by participants, preferably in peer-reviewed
> format and well-edited. The language, up to now, has been in English to
> insure widest possible dissemination of the information it contains.
> Checking back with members of the executive committee this 'open' and
> 'inclusive' policy has never before been an issue.
>      BAR asks only for a clean camera-ready manuscript and would not require
> format change on Isabelle's part and it would produce hard-copy. Thus, if
> the editing of the papers is far advanced it would not require anything more
> than to find someone who can convert word files into whatever electronic
> publishing language.
>        To my mind (sorry to repeat myself) the only question is whether the
> proceedings are published on the Nanterre server electronically or in hard
> copy (BAR being the best option). I am happy to write to David Davidson at
> BAR to make sure this is a real option although since the first and second
> proceedings were published by BAR I would be surprised if problems cropped
> up.
>         I also suggest that in addition to complaining about this or that in
> the publication we offer Isabelle all help with the English editing which
> will move things along much faster if carried out in an expeditious fashion.
> I raise my hand immediately to offer that help.
>
> Best,
> Alice
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Vivian Scheinsohn <scheinso at retina.ar>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear colleagues
>> As Christian has mentioned we all know how hard and difficult is to edit a
>> book. So it is not astounding what happened with the Nanterre publication
>> since, from my own experience, publishers are driven by a logic that is a
>> world away from our own. I think we have to privilege the work just done and
>> that all the efforts come to a good end. As long as I have understood the
>> situation, the conditions that Isabelle has mentioned in her mail are
>> imposed by the publisher. But we also have to think in the editor position
>> here. When one researcher decide to edit a volume she/he decided this having
>> all his/her circunstances in mind, since we are researchers and not
>> professional editors. We have many, many others think to do. So if we
>> change the circunstances, we are forcing her/him to confront a new
>> publisher, probably a new evaluation and editing processes and so on. It is
>> not fair  we asked to our colleagues for more time to invest in this.
>> Furthermore I think the prirority should be the papers be published soon,
>> no wonder if they are published in hardcopy or as electronic publication.
>> So I think we can:  1) accept the conditions that the publishers are
>> imposing and discuss the selection criteria (which it is not ideal but it is
>> not bad from the view point of those who had just answered the consult: the
>> selected papers will be in a hardcopy ) or 2) to publish all the papers in
>> an electronic publication ( in the WBRG site or other), and take profit of
>> all the hard work just done.
>> Best
>>
>> Dra. Vivian Scheinsohn
>> INAPL/CONICET
>> 3 de Febrero 1370
>> 1426 Capital Federal
>> E-mail: scheinso at retina.ar
>> Dra. Vivian Scheinsohn
>> INAPL/CONICET
>> 3 de Febrero 1370
>> 1426 Capital Federal
>> E-mail: scheinso at retina.ar
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Elisabeth A. Stone
Department of Anthropology, Graduate Program in Archaeology
MSC01-1040, Anthropology 1
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

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