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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:

    |  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 auction-able) residence on the internet: e.g., paintings, sketches, film, sculptures, architectural designs, literature, poetry, music, etc.

    |  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). 

    |  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