ArcheometriaiMűhely - Archaeometry Workshop, a
new e-journal published by the Hungarian National Museum
The Hungarian National Museum initiated a series of
lectures and meetings on 27th of February 2000 serving as a basis
for the current periodical.
Our aim was to make interdisciplinary research of
archaeological finds, features and phenomena understandable, conceivable and
controllable in the spirit of mutual information. We aimed at offering a
regular forum for the representatives of different branches of science, all
contributing to the understanding of archaeological problems where not only the
results but also the problems and open questions can be raised.
In the same time, the ArcheometriaiMűhely –
Archaeometry Workshop is a section of the Hungarian Society of Archaeology and
Art History (https://mrmt.hu/a-tarsulatrol/archeometriai-muhely/).
The creative atmosphere formed around the Workshop has
already given impetus for several fruitful and lasting collaboration projects.
The results, however, are often being lost without proper publication media.
The same can be raised upon the results of training,
started in recent years at several universities and highschools all over
Hungary. A number of worthy studies have been made and are currently in
progress as university theses, student conference papers and PhD dissertations.
Moreover, as a result of national and international collaboration projects, a
number of new analytical data and archaeological results supported by
scientific arguments are born. The traditional periodicals of the individual
branches of sciences and arts cannot undertake the complete publication of resulting
data thus a large part of valuable and costly pieces of information remain
unpublished. It was absolutely necessary therefore to launch a new periodical,
suitable for the fast and easily accessible publication of the new results.
Electronic publication in a registered, reviewed paper
published at suitable frequency was a good solution. Thus, in 2004,
ArcheometriaiMűhely – Archaeometry Workshop, a Diamond Open Access
interdisciplinary journal was established by Katalin T. Biró (Hungarian
National Museum) and the initial 9-membered editorial board. The originally
pioneer publication platform has become an irreplaceable forum for presenting
research results in Heritage Science for today. It is our mission to present –
primarily Hungarian – research projects based on the cooperation of
archaeologists and scientists in a broader sense in Hungarian or in English. In
the first 20 years, three issues per year and 4-6 articles per issue as an
average was our practice. The journal is indexed by the Scopus since 2010, and
each article has Digital Object Identifier (DOI) since 2021.
Apart from publishing lectures and communications in the
series ArcheometriaiMűhely, we are expecting studies, short
communications, conference accounts, book reviews and actual information on the
subject of archaeometry and archaeological science. The submitted papers will
be published in .pdf form, edited in A4 format, accessible at the following
address:
Format
The papers should be submitted to the editor in
electronic format. More details on format are given here in the Instruction for
Authors.
The submitted communications should contain the
article to be published, the typeset version of which should not exceed 10
pages. It could also contain further electronic appendices, immediately
relevant to the article, attached as hypertext info to be deposited in the Data
Repository. These appendices will neither be reformatted nor printed together
with the text; they can comprise tables, maps, databases that would exceed the
limits of the printed article.
We are especially interested in your opinion: feedback
notes are most welcome. We are also aiming at obtaining scientometric indices
for the new periodical to be able to help not only the dissemination of results
but also the advance of the authors.