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1.  Journal Overview

2.  Refereed Publications

3.  Fluid Publications

4.  Static Publications

5.  Community Networking

1.  JOURNAL OVERVIEW:

Evolving Logos Journal (aka, Evo.Logos) endeavors to become a free, peer-reviewed, international publication, community forum, and networking resource in the four categories of:

    |  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.

    |  Artistic Manifestations: creations of humanistic expression that can find a reasonable (and potentially marketable) residence on the internet: e.g., paintings, sketches, film, sculptures, architectural designs, literature, poetry, music, etc.

    |  Deductive Sciences: articles within any field of systematized knowledge whose structure is not derived from the inductive science method of inquiry: e.g. informatics, mathematics, formal logic, etc.; as well as philosophy: e.g., epistemology, ontology, ethics, aesthetics, personality theories, etc. 

    |  Social Sciences: research and findings from sciences whose root structure is founded on empirical data and inquiry regarding social topics yet whose humanistic content does not always readily 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 publications being posted online with a cleared-status, submitted entries for Refereed Publications will first be placed into a departmentalized storage bin.

The publications here undergo a private, subject-specific, peer-review wiki-process of critique by an online grouping of no less than three qualified registered members that hold expertise in the given field (e.g., Ph.D. graduates, graduate students, or individuals with good referee track records) with posted expertise specific to the given topic in question.

If the submissions pass this initial filtering process for quality of data, clearness of argument, and validity of references by the grouping of peer reviewers (or--for categories such as Fine Arts--after the submission is provided a comparative critique against other similar works within respective fields by the grouping of peer reviewers), the resulting publications will then be available for public viewing within their formal departments: together with both author's and peer reviewers' 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)--a secondary processes that, if needed, allows for the given article's placement back into the storage bin for a second peer-reviewing process.

In thus manner,

a) higher quality material is initially presented--together with the originally submitted work and the subsequent refereed wiki revisions.

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.  FLUID PUBLICATIONS:

The magazine's Encyclopedic Publications will be comprised of information concerning any topic of relevance to the Evo.Logos community.

The Wiki Publications we classify as 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. Experimental Wiki Publications may be initially structured for future content development by the author(s) prior to formal publication. They 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, online creations. 

4.  STATIC PUBLICATIONS:

Non-wiki publications (e.g., textbooks, novels, editorials, etc.) whose principle peer review will be that derived within the Hub Discussion Forums. Editorials herein published will ideally have their data referenced in the same manner found in academic journals utilizing APA style protocol--thereby distinguishing opinions and personal philosophies from assertions of factual data upon which the editorials might be founded. 

5.  COMMUNITY NETWORKING:

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, Evo.Logos endeavors to sustain 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 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 peer reviewers 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) people of all types with common interests in the Sciences and Arts may network for any variety of community outreach programs.