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interdisciplinary
1. Journal Overview
2. Refereed Publications
3. Wiki Publications
4. Community Networking
1. JOURNAL OVERVIEW:
Evolving Logos
(aka, EvoLogos) Journal endeavors to become a high-quality, free,
peer-reviewed, international publication,
community forum, and networking resource in the
four categories of:
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Inductive Sciences: research and findings from any of
the various sciences whose root structure is
founded upon the empirical scientific method
(i.e., inquiry whose structure is that of
falsifiable hypothesis, replicable test devoid
of confounding variables, and results): e.g., physics, chemistry,
geology, biology, ecology, ethology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, etc.
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Artistic Manifestations: creations of humanistic expression
that can find a reasonable (and potentially
auction-able) residence on the internet: e.g.,
paintings, sketches, film, sculptures,
architectural designs, literature, poetry,
music, etc.
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Deductive Studies: articles within any field pertaining either to sciences
whose root structure is not founded on the
scientific method of inquiry (e.g. informatics,
mathematics, formal logic, etc.) or to
philosophy (e.g., epistemology, ontology,
ethics, aesthetics, personality theories, etc.)--as well as
opinion editorials whose data
are referenced in the same manner found in
academic journals utilizing APA style protocol
(thereby distinguishing opinions and personal philosophies from
assertions of concretely factual
data upon which the editorials might be founded).
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Social Sciences: research and findings from
sciences whose root structure is founded on
empirical data and inquiry but whose humanistic content does
not easily lend itself to the stringent
scientific method of hypothesis, test, and
results: e.g.,
anthropology, ethnology, archeology,
linguistics, comparative mythology, religious
studies, sociology, etc.
2. Refereed Publications:
Prior to official online publications, submitted
entries for Refereed Publications first undergo
a private, subject-specific, peer review
process of critique by an online grouping of no
less than three qualified Ph.D. graduates
(and/or academically successful graduate
students) with expertise specific to the given
topic in question. Relative to the given
category, if the submissions pass this initial
quality-filtering process (or--for categories
such as Fine Arts--after the submission is
provided an expert comparative
critique against other similar works within
respective fields), the resulting publications are then available for
formal public viewing in conjunction with both
author's and referees' background information.
Relative to the given category, the author's
publication together with the referees' analysis
of the given work will then be open to reference checking,
public assessments, and miscellaneous commentary
by the general public within online Hub
Discussion Forums: each custom-tailored to best fit the requirements of the
respective category(ies).
In thus manner,
a) higher quality material is initially
presented;
b) the referees will be in turn assessed by the
general public, resulting in an ever improving
quality of specialized referees within each
field; and
c) the self-regulating community comprised of
authors (and artists), referees, and audience will provide for
an ever improving online database of peer
reviewed materials.
3. Wiki Publications:
The magazine's Encyclopedic Wiki Publications
will be comprised of intra-website
information-logging concerning any topic of
relevance to the EvoLogos community.
The Wiki Publications we classify as
Open Experimental will be comprised of
category-specific articles that, unlike Refereed
Publications, will be actively developed by members of the general public
interested in
engaging in the publication's cooperative
co-development. Open
Experimental Wiki Publications may, thus, be
initially structured for future content by the
author(s) prior to formal publication and may be utilized
for
a) interactive artistic co-creations;
b) the publicly open cooperative improvement of
specific deductive studies, such as Game Theory
development;
c) active experimental research within
fields such as sociology, psychology,
and informatics--with the general public, or
parts thereof, as the willing
interactive participant pool--in which the
researcher(s) will be required to give a public disclosure
of the experiment's intentions and findings
after termination of the data's acquisition
period; and
d) any other form of non-encyclopedic
publication that will lend itself to publicly
opened, cooperatively developed, active online
co-creations.
4.
Community Networking:
The
broadly comprised international community of the Sciences and Arts
relies on commissions that are at times
cumbersome to obtain; conversely, the
international public often has a difficult time
in obtaining projects from the Sciences and Arts
that have a significant personal relevance to
their own unique inquiries, needs, or tastes.
So as to foster better sustenance for
researchers and artists, as well as the
interests of individuals and organizations
desiring to provide direct
person(s)-to-person(s) endowment for specific
development in the Sciences or Arts, EvoLogos endeavors to
create an online networking space where
a) individuals and organizations willing to
commission
specific scientific research projects may both
solicit for such as well as qualitatively select amongst
available experienced researchers via
comparisons of quickly referenced, online
research-history portfolios;
b) researchers desiring to engage in novel or
hard-to-finance research projects may advertise for
public funding from
an international community of prospective
sponsors, as well as build an ever-improving,
reputable research resume via past history of publications;
c) individuals may commission artwork from
artists whose quality holds high value amongst
both experts within the field and the general
public interested in the respective genre(s),
adding both to certainty of the commissioned
artwork's finalized quality and to the potential
future resale value of artwork purchased as
investment;
d) artists may acquire international
commissions with a quickly referenced professional portfolio
consisting of both referee- and
publicly-critiqued artwork; and
e) where people of all types with common
interests in the Sciences and Arts may network
for any variety of community outreach programs.
For more information concerning the ongoing development of Evolving
Logos, please click on our company's logo at the
bottom of this page or email:
admin@evologos.org
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