About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Eoa kai Esperia is an international peer-reviewed open-access electronic journal, published by the Society for the Research of Relations between Medieval and Modern Hellenism and the West, which serves as a forum for the publication of original research in the field of the relations between Μedieval and Μodern Hellenism and the West during the period from the fourth to the eighteenth century. The journal accepts for publication articles from a broad range of fields, with particular emphasis on history, literature, archaeology, the history of institutions and archival research. Eoa kai Esperia also publishes book reviews. Studies may be submitted in Greek, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The journal’s rigorous review and publication procedures ensure that Eoa kai Esperia maintains a high standard of scholarship.
Taking advantage of the capabilities offered by open-source publishing software, Eoa kai Esperia provides free access to high-quality scholarly papers, thus contributing to the reinforcement of research, maximizing its impact and the diffusion of its results. An electronic publication management system via the Internet ensures the speedy publication of articles and book reviews, at the same time offering authors the ability to follow the progress of their manuscripts through the publication process. Revised manuscripts of accepted articles shall be published in the journal’s webpage immediately upon submission of the final version. A print edition appears at the end of every year.
The National Documentation Centre (EKT), part of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), provides publication management and technical support for the electronic publication of the journal.
Peer Review Process
Manuscripts submitted for publication in Eoa kai Esperia are evaluated through a double-blind peer review process, without disclosing the author’s name to the reviewers. The latter are obliged to submit their recommendation within 30 days of receiving the manuscript. In case of conflicting reviews, the manuscript is sent to a third reviewer.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public contributes to global knowledge exchange. We encourage authors to deposit their articles, as well as data underlying the publications, in institutional and/or other appropriate subject repositories.
EOA KAI ESPERIA
EOA&ESPERIA is published by the Society for Researching the Relations between Medieval and Modern Hellenism and the West (SRRMMHW, http://www.eesmned.gr). The journal is the primary publication medium for research carried out by members of SRRMMHW, as well as by other researchers both within and outside Greece. It features studies focusing on the relations of medieval and modern Hellenism with the West during the period from the fourth to the eighteenth century, and revolving around history, literature, archaeology and archival research, as well as the history of institutions.
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.
Journal History
Eoa kai Esperia is published by the Society for Researching the Relations between Medieval and Modern Hellenism and the West (EESMNED, http://www.eesmned.gr). The journal is the primary publication medium for research carried out by members of the Society, as well as by other researchers both within and outside Greece. It features studies focusing on the relations of medieval and modern Hellenism with the West during the period from the fourth to the eighteenth century, and revolving around history, literature, archaeology and archival research, as well as the history of institutions.
Since the first year of its publication (1993), eight volumes of the journal have been published under the title Ἑῷα καὶ Ἑσπέρια / Eoa kai Esperia. In 2013 the Society decided to transform Eoa kai Esperia into a free access online journal, at the same time maintaining its existence in print format.
