[Bonetools] nanterre publication

[Elisabeth Ann Stone]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Elisabeth Ann Stone
<elisabethastone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> elisabethastone at gmail.com
> (m) 201.344.2229  (o) 505.277.8301
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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

elisabethastone at gmail.com
(m) 201.344.2229  (o) 505.277.8301