Om tidsskriftet

Scope of the journal

This innovative journal is dedicated to the presentation, discussion and interpretation of the archaeological record of southern Scandinavia in its international, regional and local context. Providing a platform for publication and debate for professionals from the museum as well as the university sectors this journal is open for empirical, methodological and theoretical contributions covering all time periods and all kinds of archaeology with relevance for the Scandinavian, Baltic, and North Atlantic regions. In addition, the journal may publish articles of wider theoretical, discursive or global reach.
 
The Danish Journal of Archaeology includes original research articles, news and discoveries, and discussion pieces with the intention of fostering open debate about the archaeological record in its broadest sense and the position of archaeology as a discipline in the modern world.

Peer review process

All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by an editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to single blind peer review by two or more independent, anonymous expert referees. Submission is only accepted through the online system via the journal webpage.

Publication Frequency

Articles are published continously as they are ready. Articles are organised in yearly volumes.

Open Access Policy

This journal operates with Libre Open Access on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and to make sure copyright stays with authors.

Therefore, all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Charges and fees

Danish Journal of Archaeology does not charge for submission, review or publishing of articles.

Copyright and license

Counting from volume 11 (2022), articles published in DJA are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). The editorial board may accept other Creative Commons licenses for individual articles, if required by funding bodies e.g. the European Research Council. With the publication of volume 11, authors retain copyright to their articles and give DJA the right to the first publication. The authors retain copyright to earlier versions of the articles, such as the submitted and the accepted manuscript.

Articles in volume 1-8 are not licensed under Creative Commons. In these volumes, all rights are reserved to DJA. This implies that readers can download, read, and link to the articles, but they cannot republish the articles. Authors can upload their articles in an institutional repository as a part of a green open access policy.

Articles in volume 9-10 are not licensed under Creative Commons. In these volumes, all rights are reserved to the authors of the articles respectively. This implies that readers can download, read, and link to the articles, but they cannot republish the articles. Authors can upload their articles in an institutional repository.

Publication Ethics

The Editorial Board is committed to ensuring that high ethical publishing standards are maintained by the DJA. As a benchmark, the DJA subscribes to the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/core-practices. Therefore, the standards are agreed upon and enacted by all parties involved in the publishing of DJA: the editorial board, the authors and the reviewers. 

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Use of artificial intelligence (AI)

We acknowledge the value of responsibly applied artificial intelligence (AI) tools in archaeological research and scholarly writing. AI cannot replace human critical thinking or expertise, and authors remain fully responsible and accountable for all content presented in their work.

To ensure transparency, authors must declare and fully describe any use of AI at the time of manuscript submission. Basic tools to check grammar, spelling and references do not require disclosure. The declaration on use of AI should appear as a separate section before the reference list.

The declaration should provide full descriptions of AI process, including:

  • Image generation: indicate clearly within the corresponding figure captions.
  • Text generation: provide appropriate citations or references and include a disclosure within the Acknowledgements section.
  • Data analysis or insight extraction: describe the AI tool’s function and cite any datasets or materials analysed in all relevant parts of the manuscript.

AI tools cannot be credited as authors, as they do not fulfil the accountability requirements of authorship.

This policy will be reviewed and updated as compliant AI tools and best practices continue to evolve.

Publisher

Danish Journal of Archaeology is published by the editorial board, which is supported by Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark.

The journal is registered at the National Museum of Denmark and hosted at tidsskrift.dk by the Royal Library. Tidsskrift.dk is a part of the national strategy for Open Access, supported by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science

Archiving

The journal is preserved in Netarchive.dk in the event Danish Journal of Archaeology is no longer published.