A most of you know, Chris and I are attempting to become the new Utah Archaeology editors. At the business portion of the UPAC meetings we discussed the issue and some have asked that I do a post explaining where the issue sits. At the meeting we discussed how Utah Arch needs to get back up and running and that it should have institutional support if at all possible. Although no one with institutional support is willing to step up. Most agree that there should be some type of editorial board headed by an editor(s). The board would be made up of specialists and when an article was sent to Utah Arch the primary editor(s) would send it to the specialist who would then pick out a couple of reviewers and take care of the reviewing and revision process and then send it to the editor when it was ready to go. The editor would then put the issue together. Lori H. (the president of UPAC) had me stand and talk for a bit about Chris and I being willing to be co-editors. In the end nothing was decided and Lori said we should continue the discussion on a message board. After the meeting Dr. J and I talked with Lori and she committed to send us everything Jason Bright had for the next issue (2005) which is supposedly almost ready to be printed. But I have yet to hear from Lori (despite an email to her on Tuesday) and am doubtful about how 'close' the next issue really is. All of this in my mind epitomizes the problems with using a board, put a lot of people in charge of doing something and nothing ever really gets done, or it gets done very slowly. Anyway, we'll see how it turns out, but I don't have too much faith that it will be resolved anytime in the near future. C'est la vie.
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so much for democracy. we need a coup d'etat. (see, i can use french blabbery, too dave.) long live the czars david and chris! (if the federal government can employ the title "drug czar," we can surely have "publication czars".)
oh, and i told mr. yoder, i've got a paper that's pretty much ready to be submitted for the upcoming2006 publication. it's more relevant to utah arch than jcgba.
I think the format you are suggesting is similar to the SW equivalent - KIVA. I think an editor with some reviewers would work great. So is there an editor right now, or is the publication essentially defunct?
Quite defunct.
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