NB: Amended version. Please note e-mail address for Andrew Lyons
(Editor-in-Chief)
This message is addressed to all CASCA members. It
concerns your journal, Anthropologica. I have served as
Editor-in-Chief since the beginning of May, 2008.In that time I have
had a chance to assess the journal's many strengths as well as its
weaknesses. Under the editorship of my predecessor, we published
several excellent issues. Most of them were devoted to specific themes
and many were based on conference sessions. They include only a
minority of stand-alone submissions.
In the past eight months we have received very few such
articles. Only half of them were from Canada. Decisions have been made
on all but two of them. None of those papers were submitted in French.
It is true that there are journals which do not publish individual
submissions. That is not our mandate. We undertake to produce both
individually volunteered papers and thematic sections. We want our
journal fully to represent Canadian anthropology and we want it to be
the first place where Canadian faculty and graduate students publish.
We have received a large increase in our SSHRC Grant
because we promised to clear a large backlog of special issues
(thematic sections) and to print more volunteered papers, effective
2010.
We need your written work and your support. We guarantee
that we will give you a prompt decision regarding your work.
Electronic submissions are acceptable and most if not all of the peer
review process is now conducted electronically. Because there will be
no serious backlogs the gap between final acceptance and publication
should not be more than a year.
There is no reason why Canada's national anthropology
journal should not be ranked as highly as its equivalents in the USA,
France or Britain. We intend to bring that about, but it can only
happen with your support.
Articles written in English should be submitted
electronically to the Editor-in-Chief, Andrew Lyons (Wilfrid Laurier)
at andrewpaulllyons@gmail.com. Articles written in French should be
submitted to our Editor (French Manuscripts), Marie-France Labrecque
at Marie-France.labrecque@ant.ulaval.ca . After April 15 French
manuscripts should go to our new Editor (French manuscripts), Sylvie
Poirier at Sylvie.Poirier@ant.ulaval.ca .
