BookYard - A place for primary (mostly) sources

[Jacques Cinq-Mars]

All,

As briefly mentioned here and in the PALANTH information poster that has already been circulated, we want to ensure that there will be a fair degree of interactivity between the Journal and the Forum, and we are presently exploring various ways or approaches that should facilitate and, hopefully maintain a useful level of feedback high level the type of feedback. One such approach we think is worth testing is to open up some sort of a virtual library (titles and abstracts and/or comments only, mind you) that would serve, among other things, as a useful, in depth complement to some of the discussions (topics) that are triggered, most of the time, by high profile scientific articles, press releases, and media translations and/or interpretations.

As of today, then, we are opening, in the Forum Archives, a new presentation area, category, or Board (similar to Links) in which people will be able to bring up to the attention of all, new, interesting publications they know about, that are likely to be relevant to all aspects of the palaeoanthropological discourse, and that do not necessarily make the headlines.

It should be used mostly for primary sources (books, conference proceedings, special or thematic issues published by journals, etc.).

A post (or announcement) should include a more or less formal reference (your preferred bibliographic style), an abstract (the original one or your own summary) and, when possible, comments as to why you deem the publication particularly important.

Hopefully, such “book notes”, as it were, will generate further discussions -- to be held in the context of the appropriate discussion board – and will also be of great use to the Journal in terms of identifying major areas of interest to our members/subscribers, planning Book Reviews, and, possibly, developing thematic issues.

As noted above, you can view this as a test. With all that implies.

Jacques Cinq-Mars

[Jacques Cinq-Mars]

Further to my earlier message, re: Bookyard:

- even if this new space is primarily for new publications dealing with ongoing research, it is also open to "older titles" that may be in need of rehabilitation or that have become relevant again;

- it is hoped that people coming up with particularly insightful comments on any given publication will be willing to accept an invitation to contribute actual Book Reviews to the Journal.

Jacques Cinq-Mars