Publishing regional journals in the Americas

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Issues in Regional Journal Publishing in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this session, we have invited authors, editors, and publishers from North and South America to discuss the role of regional archaeological journals in scholarly communication and their efforts to make these journals impactful and sustainable. Regional journals are often the products of historical societies, university departments, or museums. Historically, they have heavily relied on volunteer labor and institutional capacity to support their regular publication. Their mission is to disseminate research results, reporting theoretically informed, methodologically robust, information about archaeology -- and often anthropology, history, and natural history --in a defined geographic region. To be effective, the journals need to be attractive to authors building careers and fulfilling ethical obligations to publish and share the results of their work. The articles also need to be written and distributed in accessible ways to regional archaeologists and interested avocationalists. Authors of the papers in this session discuss their choices related to implementing peer review, funding, and publication partnership models.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Issues in Regional Journal Publishing in the Americas   •
• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)

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Abstract Id(s): 50835