Results of Ongoing Research
Our current 16 journals, which originally comprised more than 20 different publications, serve to publish the latest results of international archaeological research and to contribute to the scientific discourse.
The journals cover a wide range of topics from all areas of modern archaeology and classical studies, which is increasingly being expanded to include content from digital research. Researchers are expressly invited to submit articles for the DAI journals. In addition to the thematic focus, which must match the profile of the respective journal, the only criteria for publication are the scientific quality of the articles.
This is usually checked in double-blind peer review procedures - sometimes in consultation with the respective scientific advisory boards. Formal editorial reviews by the responsible editorial offices guarantee compliance with the DAI's usual formal quality standards.
Information on the thematic focus, the editors and advisory boards, the responsible editorial offices and submission modalities for articles can be found on the pages of the respective journal in our journal portal iDAI.publications/journals.
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Print. Online. Open Access.
In 2019, the DAI introduced a new journal concept that has since been adopted by several DAI journals. The articles not only appear in a high-quality print edition, but are also published in parallel in a responsive viewer format in open access via the iDAI.publications portal. What is particularly new is that extensive research data sets from other iDAI.world information resources can be integrated into the viewer edition and the articles can be enriched with various standardised data.
As freely accessible and networked digital publications, the new journal formats are also a key building block in a research data management approach that is consistently focused on findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability.
One new feature that has been requested by many authors is the use of established identifiers such as ORCID or GND IDs, which makes it possible to precisely ascribe authorship and, in combination with other identifiers such as DOIs, also to show the scientific distribution of articles. With the new features mentioned above and the integration of content from information resources and digital services, the concept aims to set new standards for a contemporary form of archaeological and ancient studies journals.
The subscription-based book edition in high-quality print will continue to be published, and PDFs will continue to be made freely available in parallel. The flexible arrangement of the content means that the articles are also easy and convenient to read on tablets or even smartphones.
You can find a sample article here.
Digital Publishing Award
In 2020, the concept of integrating research data into journal articles and making iDAI.world content visible in the DAI Journal Viewer won the digital publishing award in the Process/Technology category at the Frankfurt Book Fair and was recognised by the jury as a 'modern and pioneering journal format'.
In the DAI Journal Viewer, for example, individual artefacts can be integrated directly into the articles as comparative pieces, as well as digital supplements such as complex find catalogues, geo-information and map views. The most important information is initially displayed in a preview view in the viewer. Links then take users directly to the relevant iDAI.world systems, where a wealth of additional information is available and from which they are redirected to other content in the DAI's networked information infrastructure.
An example can be found here.
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Our Journals
The digital editions of the DAI's journals and online journals are published via iDAI.publications/journals.