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Anthropology Notebooks is an official publication of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), founded in 1982, under the coordination of Professor Nancy Cartín-Leiva. It was created within the María Eugenia Bozzoli Vargas Ethnology Laboratory of the Department of Anthropology, in the former School of Anthropology and Sociology. When the UCR School of Anthropology was established, the Laboratory became part of it. Starting in 2017, with the founding of the Center for Anthropological Research (CIAN, by its acronym in Spanish), it became a key part of the center's editorial policy.
The objective of the journal is to facilitate academic discussion in the fields of Social Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Ethnohistory, Linguistic Anthropology, Archaeology, and related disciplines. It has the specific interest of spreading the research production generated in and from Central America, Southern Mexico, the Insular Caribbean, and Northwest Colombia. The target audience is people who come from, or are interested in, these specific areas.
Anthropology Notebooks is published twice a year, with publication closures in January (period January–June) and July (period July-December) in digital format. It is a continuous publication; that is, texts are published and manuscripts are received throughout the year. The evaluation is "double-blind" by a minimum of two evaluators per manuscript. In addition, approved articles are published individually on the journal's website, within the current issue, once the editing process is complete.
The content of Anthropology Notebooks is open access, free and immediate, as it seeks to encourage greater exchange of knowledge. All published articles, available in the historical archive, are protected under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CCBY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED) license. This license allows sharing, copying, and redistributing the material in any medium or format, as well as adapting, remixing, transforming, and creating from the material. Therefore, authors are free to share their material on any repository or website, including pre-publication drafts and updated versions.
Currently, Anthropology Notebooks is indexed in: Biblat (Bibliografía Latinoamericana, UNAM); Clase (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, UNAM); COPAC; DIALNET (Databases of Spanish and Hispanic American Journals); DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals of the University of Lund, Sweden); LATINDEX (Regional Online Information System for Scientific Journals in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal); REDIB (Iberoamerican Network of Innovation and Scientific Knowledge); ERIHPLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences); Actualidad Iberoamericana, Center for Technological Information (CIT for its acronym in Spanish), Chile; EZB (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek / Electronic Journals Library), University Library of Regensburg, Germany; PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service, Princeton University, United States; PKP Index (Public Knowledge Project), Simon Fraser University, Canada; Sudoc (Système Universitaire de Documentation), Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Supérieur (ABES), France; LatinREV (Red Latinoamericana de Revistas Académicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanides)
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