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The Editors of KACIKE: Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology welcome articles, reports and research reviews on Caribbean Amerindian societies and communities in the past and present both from advanced scholars in the field and from post-graduate students at either the MA or PhD level as well as independent researchers with field experience. All submissions are reviewed by an in-house team of editors and/or members of our Editorial Board and/or external examiners.
For the purposes of this journal, the Caribbean is defined as consisting of all island territories in the Caribbean Sea, as well as Central American and South American territories with Caribbean coastlines, from Mexico's Yucatan to French Guiana. In addition, given historical connections forged in part through migrations, both past and present, we also welcome articles that discuss groups in the Amazon as well as the mainland of the United States of America.
KACIKE is an interdisciplinary journal that welcomes contributions from across the social sciences and the humanities, with a particular focus on archaeological, ethnographic, historiographic and sociological work. The Editors encourage contributions from writers with a variety of perspectives as long as their contributions meet the primary criterion of being serious treatments of serious topics and issues of significance, do not simply restate extant research, and represent some advance in the state of current knowledge or thinking on topics or issues of relevance to this journal.
KACIKE therefore invites authors to submit articles (please read our guidelines) that are either empirical presentations of new knowledge or original field research or that demonstrate a judicious balance between theory and description.
As an electronic journal, there are certain distinct advantages to having one's work published in KACIKE:
(1) Issues of cost effectiveness that burden traditional print journals do not present themselves here, therefore, there are no prescribed word or page limits for articles submitted. In addition, there are no printing backlogs.
(2) Articles are generally published faster upon the completion of a successful review than is the case with many of the print journals.
(3) As an electronic journal an author can take full advantage of the opportunities offered by HTML, such as providing active links within one's text connecting readers to online reference resources and other Websites of relevance.
(4) Articles published in electronic format can feature full colour photographs as well as audio and video clips.
(5) KACIKE sets no quota on the number of times an author may have works published in the journal.
(7) Authors retain copyright over their articles.
(8) Unlike print journals, this electronic journal offers ongoing peer review: after an article is published, commentaries are still solicited and/or received via e-mail, an interactive bonus to electronic publishing. This permits us to publish discussion pages attached to a given article with readers' comments and an author's responses. This can be done for a virtually unlimited period of time after an article has already been published.
(9) All published items are listed and indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. KACIKE appears in the "electronic resources" section of most library websites of most universities in North America, the United Kingdom and Australia. On average for the period 2002-2006, KACIKE received over 500,000 page views per annum, with visitors from most countries of the planet. When tracking and statistics services were available, it was discovered that the first articles to be published had been downloaded to people's computers at a rate of 3,000 per annum, per article. This is considerably larger than the number of subscribers to most academic journals in the social sciences and humanities.
KACIKE is a unique resource specializing in the publication of works in what is a long neglected and yet increasingly important and challenging area of studies, while also offering the special expertise of its Editors and Staff, and, allowing authors maximum feedback opportunities given the high accessibility of this format since neither individuals nor institutions need to pay any subscription fees in order to access this journal.
KACIKE welcomes articles in English (UK and USA), Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Are there any disadvantages to publishing in KACIKE?Yes. These include the following:
(1) KACIKE does not supply its authors with any off prints. Should the journal ever produce bound copies of back issues, they will not be provided to authors free of charge.
(2) KACIKE is run at the expense of voluntary management, and this includes the occasional hiring of assistants to aid in formatting items for publication. The journal is independently managed and financed by academics. That means that production of items for publication can take anywhere from days to well over a year, depending on the volume of submissions received.
(3) Given that KACIKE receives no revenue, articles are not indexed and abstracted in any of the major print databases that offer those services. (Nevertheless, this does not seem to have impeded very large numbers of readers from finding articles published in KACIKE.)
(4) Scholars in universities will be aware of the fact that there are still members of tenure and promotion committees who are wary of online publications, fearing these may be self-published, non peer reviewed items. In all cases when asked, the editors of KACIKE will endeavor to submit copies of comments from scholarly reviewers directly to those committees. However, all authors contributing to KACIKE must retain and preserve their own copies of comments from reviewers. Replacement copies may not be available.
For any additional information not presented on this site, please contact the Editor.