About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The journal focuses in the reception of the European 18th century ideas in the Greek space and generally in South-East Europe. Further, it focuses in the origins and the survivals of the Neohellenic Enlightenment, and thus also publishes studies concerned with the period before and after the 18th century.
The journal publishes articles in Greek, English, French, Italian and German. Twenty seven volumes have been published so far; six of them have been dedicated to scholars engaged in the Neohellenic Enlightenment studies. Moreover, a general Index of the first twenty volumes of THE GLEANER was published in 2001. The contents of the journal are structured in three parts: Articles, Mélanges, and a third part, comprising Chronicles concerning the Greek Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies as well as News about publication of relevant books, announcements of either local or international congresses and scientific meetings.
Peer Review Process
Manuscripts submitted to THE GLEANER are reviewed by the members of the Editorial Committee.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
History
THE GLEANER is published by the Greek Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies since 1963. It is is one of the oldest journals among those which appeared internationally in the post-war period, in order to publish studies on the Eighteenth century: Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century (1955), O Eρανιστής (1963), Dix-huitième siècle… (1964) (cf. Transactions of the Ninth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Oxford 1996, p. 1483-1505). In 1979 THE GLEANER was awarded the prize Zappas by the “Association pour l’Encouragement des Études Grecques en France”.
Publication Frequency
In recent times, the journal has been published in print every two years. Each volume contains 250-500 pages.
ePublisher
The National Documentation Centre (www.ekt.gr) is a national infrastructure. Since 1980, it actively engages in the collection, organization and dissemination of scientific and technological information in Greece and internationally. EKT’s strategic priority is the aggregation, organized online dissemination and preservation of quality-assured scholarly and educational content in a single research infrastructure.
EKT’s vision is “Access to Knowledge”. To this end it implements Open Access policies in research, supports the transfer and dissemination of scientific knowledge, collaborates with research, education and cultural institutions for the aggregation, organization and dissemination of digital content and provides innovative services in scientific information.
EKT provides reliable ePublishing services as part of its scholarly content aggregation and dissemination activities . Its integrated online ePublishing environment is developed with open-source interoperable technology. This affords the incorporation of EKT’s infrastructures into the continuously developing international infrastructure environment.
EKT’s ePublishing services (http://epublishing.ekt.gr/) are directed to public and extended public institution publishers of accredited scholarly journals. They include, most significantly, the organization, documentation and organized dissemination of metadata and content of scholarly journals, the training and consulting services on issues such as intellectual property, the standardization of editorial processes according to internationally accepted standards, the inclusion of content and metadata in international content indexers and harvesters via interoperable systems.
Sources of Support
The development of the electronic edition of The Gleaner of the Society for Eighteenth Century Studies took place within the project “National Information System for Research & Technology/Social Networks-User Generated Content” (Project ID 296115). The project is implemented by the National Documentation Centre within the Operational Programme “Digital Convergence” (NSFR), which is co-funded by Greece and the European Union-European Regional Development Fund.
