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HTML creado y editado con Kate bajo Linux Kubuntu usando como entorno gráfico KDE

Los gráficos son procesados con The Gimp. El correo lo administramos con Gmail y navegamos con Firefox.

Los archivos de texto son procesados con OpenOffice y subimos archivos con gFTP.

Transoxiana depende enteramente de trabajo voluntario y no recibe financiamiento de ninguna institución.

Aboutus and Frequently Asked Questions

History - Who Makes it? - All Asian - How Do You Do It? - Who Cares? - We Care! - Rights and Lefts - Why Bytes Only? - How Much?

History

Timeline

June 2000 (Transoxiana 1) to August 2009 (Transoxiana 14) and counting!

Since Oct 2003: Transoxiana Webfestschrift Series

* Webfestschrift Marshak 2003
* Webfestschrift Scarcia 2004

Since 2005: Preprint Series

Who Makes it?

Editorial Board

12 members from Argentina, Russia, Australia, Italy, U.S.A., The Netherlands.

• Escuela de Estudios Orientales, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
• Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Department of Iranistics, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
• Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
• TCMO Institute, School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies, University of Leiden, the Netherlands

Referral Board

+30 scholars worldwide read and recommend publication of articles in their areas of expertise.

The whole referral process is anonymous

All Asian

Areas of Interest:

• Ancient and Modern Asia
• Far East (China, Japan, Korea) and Southeast Asia
• Ancient and Modern Central Asia and Eurasia
• Islamic and Jewish Studies
• Indo-european Studies
• Armenian Studies
• Persian Studies and Iranistic
• Egyptology
• Mediterranean Studies

Areas of Study:

• History
• Literature
• Religion
• Filosophy
• Linguistics
• History of Art and Architecture
• Symbolism
• Cinema

Languages:

• Spanish
• Russian
• English
• French
• Portuguese

How Do You Do It?

Absolute electronics!

• Mailing Lists (Call for Papers, Announcements, Refereeing): @ Yahoo!
• E-mail (Fast, easy and cheap communication and exchange)
• Instant Messaging
• Web (uploading, publishing, correcting,)
• Digital images: Gimp
• Standard HTML (make it W3C compliant!!!)
• PDF (only if needed)
• UNICODE/UTF-8/ISO
• Non-implemented possibilites: streaming media, digital audio, interactivity

Who Cares?

• Over 20.000 visits/month average
• Over 5% Linux Users and increasing!
• Over 15% Mozilla surfers and increasing!
• Google PageRank(R) 4

We Care!

• W3C HTML Compliance with standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3.org) on Accessibility and Codification
• Any Browser! We adhere to the Any Browser Campaign (www.anybrowser.org)
• Free and Open Source: Entirely made over Linux (Kubuntu)
• OpenOffice transforms "manuscripts" into HTML
• Kate to edit html code
• GFTP to upload
• Gmail to manage the multiple e-mail accounts
• Mozilla, Links, Konqueror to browse the web/filesystem
• Served by Apache running on a Linux server

Rights and Lefts

• Multiple licensing models, according to the authors' choice:
• Creative Commons License (used for licensing the whole work): Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
• Open Content License
• Standard restrictive (C)
• Public Domain
• Suggestions welcome :)
• Copyright remains with the Authors (or their financial institutions)
• We agree (if authors do!) to reprint of articles

Why Bytes Only?

• Worldwide availability of knowledge
• Non library-budget dependent
• Non printing-budget dependent
• Non space-saving dependent
• Almost unlimited extension of articles
• doesn't load your bookshelf
• Tree-saving
• Moth-free

How Much?

• Content is not for sale
• Read for Free
• Write for Free
• 1 Issue per Year + Webfestschrift Series + Preprint Series + Photo Gallery

Transoxiana.org
Free Journal on Asian Studies
Paola E. Raffetta
Editora
paola[@]transoxiana.org
Buenos Aires, Argentina

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