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[AQueff]

Dear all, I don't use Github often so I don't know if it's here I should write this or not, but apparently you are having discussions in the "Issues" so it may be the right place.

I would like if possible to participate in the project and I would also like to tell you about some work I already did. I published it on the Discord server but will also put it here.

Almost one year ago, we (90% myself and 10% three colleagues in my lab) added many archaeo/bioanthropo journals to the already existing DAFNEE database, which was initially intended only to Ecology and Evolution: This database wants to list the academia-friendly journals, which means journals which are either diamond, or gold but pertaining to learning societies or not-profit journals etc.

I also started years ago a list of all archaeo journals, based on Doug Rocks-Macqueen dataset. The goal was to be able to make the same paper as this one by Tennant & Lomax or this one by Pourret et al. but for archaeology. The project was my first GitHub project... you can find it here, maybe worth a look? https://github.com/AQueff/OA-Archaeology/tree/main

[joeroe]

Thanks @AQueff. We're also discussing this project less formally on Matrix at #diamond.open-archaeo:archaeo.social, you're welcome to join there too.

DAFNEE sounds very similar to what we're going for here – though I wonder if most colleagues would think to look for archaeology journals in a list titled for ecology & evolution? I've also been slowly compiling info on archaeology journals in a more selective way at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archaeology_journals. Perhaps we could add a section to the website linking to these and other complementary resources?

Sounds like a very interesting paper, too! Since OA has continued to evolve since the Tennant & Lomax and Pourret et al. papers were published, it might be interesting to also look at the relative popularity of different OA models, published, and alternative publication types like PCI and preprints.

[zackbatist]

I agree, we should definitely be linking to other complementary efforts.

I'm also keen to do the kind of analysis you've been doing on DAFNEE, but that was put on the backburner in favour of a more publicly accessible listing that archaeologists may consult to help them discover where to publish.

I think there is also good precedent for comparison between archaeology and ecology/evolution open science tooling, such as Sophie Schmidt and Ben Marwick's 2020 paper, and DAFNEE seems really well prepared for this kind of comparative study.