About the Journal

Journal of architecture, design and urbanism

published by the VostokSibAcademCenter of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences

Focus and Scope

Project Baikal is a journal that focuses on architecture, urbanism, design, heritage and landscape. The journal publishes the works at the intersection of architecture, sociology and history. Contributing authors are prominent architects from Russia's Asian-Pacific region, leading experts and scholars from Europe and around the world.

Project Baikal is distributed among architects and urbanists who perform scientific research and practice, among the administration of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, universities, governmental, business, architectural and construction organizations of Irkutsk, Eastern Siberia, Siberian Federal District, among regional organizations of the Union of Architects of Russia and several foreign branches of the International Union of Architects.

Project Baikal is also sent to prominent individuals both in Russia and abroad and is sold in retail.

Size: А4

Full-color

Publication frequency: quarterly

Number of pages: 140-180

Peer Review Process

In 2018 Project Baikal started with the double-blind peer-review of the contributions submitted to its 'Articles' section, in addition to the standard editorial review.

Publication ethics

Editors, authors and publisher adopt the guidelines, codes to conduct and best practices developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Author processing charges

Authors are asked to pay 50.000 roubles (roughly 600 euro) as APC per published contribution. Project Baikal doesn't have a waiver policy.

Open Access Policy

Project Baikal is a RoMEO green journal.

All articles published in project baikal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You are free to use the work but... you have to attribute (refer to) the work in the manner that is specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). The easiest way to refer to an article in project baikal is to use the ARTICLE TOOL that you'll find alongside each article in the right sidebar: How to cite this item.

Copyrights and Publishing Rights

Project Baikal allows the author(s) to hold their copyright without restrictions. Project Baikal also allows the author(s) to retain their publishing rights without restrictions.

Authors can self-archive pre-print, post-print and publisher's versions of their work.

Certificate

The magazine is registered by the East-Siberian Office of the Federal Service for the Monitoring of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage. Certificate ПИ №ФС13-0180 as of November 16, 2007.

ISSN

ISSN 2309-3072 (Online)

ISSN 2307-4485 (Print)

Indexing

  • Google Scholar
  • Scopus
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  • Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD)
  • Ulrichsweb
  • Open Archives

Metadata

Project Baikal grants you the right to publish the metadata relating to the journal, it's issues and articles under the terms of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0). This means that all metadata provided by Project Baikal can be re-used by third parties without any restrictions.

[All issues and articles published by Project Baikal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License(CC BY 4.0.) This means you can download and share, but you need to give appropriate credit to the authors and the journal. Please use the 'how to cite item' tool that you find on each article page.]