#Archaeology: if there was a non-selective, diamond open access (i.e. free to publish, free to read), post-publication peer review journal for field reports, would you use it?

The idea being to publish basically any description of primary archaeological results from anywhere in the world, subject to basic checks for research ethics, without worrying about things like significance, novelty, or English-language editing, that can otherwise make it difficult to publish that kind of thing.

@joeroe 1000% yes on a reader front (I'm disabled enough that I can't excavate, etc.)

I make youtube videos about archaeology and I try to use sites as examples, but it can be really difficult to access information about them, especially things like site plans, without having access to university library permissions and such.

@joeroe In France the field reports are mostly available in the Dolia catalogue: https://www.inrap.fr/ressources-documentaires/catalogue-dolia
In Japan we have the Nara Repository that, despite its name, gathers the field reports from all Japan: https://sitereports.nabunken.go.jp/ja/abouts/guide
I work in commercial archaeology and we are not allowed to publish our results : we make a report for the Board of Education, and they use this report to produce another one that will (generally) be uploaded to the Nara Repository.
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@berangere444 Thanks. For sure there will be countries/research contexts that have no need for this. But not all, I think!