The Management Board of Matica Srpska passed a resolution on publishing the Journal of Classical Studies of Matica Srpska (Zbornik Matice srpske za klasične studije) at its 4th meeting on the 11th of March 1996.
The Journal focuses on studying the classical antiquities in all aspects. The classical period is the core of European civilization and culture, and our country and the Serbian people are an integral part of that cultural area of the classical era. Many achievements of the classical period in culture, philosophy and science, languages, literature, history, art and material culture were handed down to future European and other nations by the Ancient Balkans. As stated by our leading authority on the Balkans of the classical period, Academician Milan Budimir, the Balkan Slavs as well as all other citizens of former Yugoslavia had strong ties with the culture of the classical period, its location as well as representatives of the era.
“That antique influence and classical heritage, as well as the heritage and reception of the classical period in the Serbian nation are least mentioned in the world. Thus the primary objective of the journal is the contribution to the promotion of our classical science abroad. To this end are the contributions of colleagues from Europe, Russia, the USA, Canada and India published in our journal.”
The Journal is to cover critical acclamation and presentation of works of our scientists and authors dealing with classical topics. This is the reason why the reception of Hellenic philosophy, literature, art and culture, both Greek and Roman, in Serbian tradition will be one of the major topics. Comparative research of religion and myth along with theoretical definition of this sphere are further interests of our international partners, including law and natural sciences of the classical period.
Apart from original research studies and articles on classical topics, the Journal publishes proceedings from scientific conferences on the classical period in our country and abroad, relations with the Orient, classical heritage in Byzantium, interrelations with the Slavic World and Serbian language and culture.
The Journal also features permanent sections like Hronika naučnog života (the Chronicle of Scientific Life), Projekti (Projects), Vesti iz sveta (News from the World), Nekrolozi (Necrologies) and so forth.
Special attention is devoted in the Journal to scientific criticism and presentation of new books and studies published in our country as well as abroad, thus publications of the most important publishers have been provided.
We would like to point out that this Journal is the only one of its kind and has appeared rather late, bearing in mind that the Yugoslav journal on classical topics was lost with the secession of former Yugoslav republics. Precious support to our Journal was given by the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies FIEC at its General Assembly on the 20th of August 1999, in Kavala (Greece), when the president of FIEC, Academician Carl Joachim Classen, member of Matica Srpska, publicly supported the publishing of the Journal of Classical Studies and invited colleagues to cooperate with the Journal. We would like to emphasize that FIEC is one of thirteen UNESCO associations for social sciences. Papers from our Journal enter the leading bibliographical publication in the world in this field L’Année Philologique.
The Journal is edited by an international editorial board comprised of the most esteemed scientists at home and abroad.
The Matica Srpska Journal of Philology and Linguistics was first published in 1957. Until 1984 it was published as Zbornik za filologiju i lingvistiku (Journal of Philology and Linguistics). It features original and clear scientific papers, scientific criticism, as well as chronicles and bibliographies in the field of philological and linguistic studies. Open thematically and disciplinarily, the Journal publishes works in general linguistics, historical, typological and comparative linguistics, etymology, dialectology, contact and contrastive linguistics, onomastics and the like. The focus of the Journal are topics related to Slavic issues, especially ones related to the Serbian language in synchronic and diachronic perspective, standardized language and literary idioms in the past, as well as dialects of the Serbian language.
The goal of the Journal is to promote research based on thorough analysis of the relevant corpus with theoretical insight into issues, thus promoting a combination of traditional Philology and Linguistics. The Journal also supports dialogue between different theoretical and methodological approaches to research of language, as well as between philological tradition and contemporary theories.
The Journal is on the European ERIH (European Reference Index for the Humanities) reference list of journals and the Serbian Citation Index. Selected abstracts are published in Linguistic Abstracts (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford). It is published in two volumes annually. Papers are published in Serbian and other Slavic languages, as well as in English, German and French.
Časopis Zbornik Narodnog muzeja pokrenut je godine 1956. i prva tri broja izašla su pod nazivom Zbornik radova Narodnog muzeja (1957-1961). Godine 1964, promenjen je naziv u Zbornik Narodnog muzeja, a 1982. ustanovljene su posebne sveske za arheologiju i istoriju umetnosti.
Zbornik Narodnog muzeja izlazi godišnje, naizmenično u dve sveske: sveska 1 arheologija, jedne godine; sveska 2 istorija umetnosti, naredne godine.
Od 2013. godine, prema odluci Ministarstva za nauku, prosvetu i tehnološki razvoj Republike Srbije, obe sveske Zbornika Narodnog muzeja u okviru Liste domaćih naučnih časopisa za društveno-humanističke nauke unapređene su u kategoriju M51.
National Museum Čačak was founded on 30th August, 1952. Since 1969, the Museum has been regularly publishing the National Museum Journal (46 issues were published until 2017).
Povodom obeležavanja 35 godina rada Arhiva, 1983. godine, pokrenuta je „Istorijska baština“, godišnjak Istorijskog arhiva u Užicu, časopis za istoriografiju i arhivistiku.59 Prilikom pokretanja časopisa uzeto je u obzir da veoma razvijen naučno-istraživački rad i sve brojniji korisnici arhivske građe, kao primarnog izvora za rad, obavezuju Ustanovu na brže otvaranje arhivskih fondova prema javnosti, kao i na objavljivanje značajnih fondova.
Svi stručni radovi iz arhivistike i istoriografije recenziraju se prema Pravilniku o izdavanju časopisa.60 Godine 2008. časopis je dobio i naučnu verifikaciju sa koeficijentom M53. Odgovorni urednici za iz davanje časopisa bili su Milorad Iskrin i Miroslav Dučić, a urednici mr Vojislav Lazović (1983–1988), Dragica Matić (1993–2000). Od 2001. do danas urednik je dr Aleksandar V. Savić.
History and Aims: Literary History (Književna istorija) was founded in 1968 as a journal of the publishing house “Obod” from Cetinje, and later of the publishing house “Vuk Karadžić” as well. Its founder and first Editor-in-Chief was Aleksandar Petrov, succeeded by Jovan Deretić. During its entire existence, the journal relied on the cooperation of the research projects’ associates at the Institute for Literature and Art. In 1991 Literary History became the official organ of the Institute, and its newly appointed Editor-in-Chief, Dušan Ivanić, continued with the distinct literary-theoretical and literary-historical orientation of the journal. With Miodrag Maticki taking the position of Editor-in-Chief in 2001, Literary History broadened its concept to include interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scientific studies and articles as well.
Literary History (Književna istorija) was founded in 1968 as a journal of the publishing house “Obod” from Cetinje, and later of the publishing house “Vuk Karadžić” as well. Its founder and first Editor-in-Chief was Aleksandar Petrov, succeeded by Jovan Deretić. During its entire existence, the journal relied on the cooperation of the research projects’ associates at the Institute for Literature and Art. In 1991 Literary History became the official organ of the Institute, and its newly appointed Editor-in-Chief, Dušan Ivanić, continued with the distinct literary-theoretical and literary-historical orientation of the journal. With Miodrag Maticki taking the position of Editor-in-Chief in 2001, Literary History broadened its concept to include interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scientific studies and articles as well.
The magazine Književnost i jezik has been active for fifty years in the field of Serbian language, literature, education, science and culture. In an environment where professional and scientific endeavors are not long-lasting, half a century of duration and active work of a journal are an expression of the life needs and persistence of its initiators and dedicated gathering and nurturing of associates who dedicate themselves to practice and other types of work on the improvement of speech and literary culture, ie literacy.
After the Second World War, there was a need for the representatives in the field of language and literature to gather and work together on current and key topics and issues of the Serbian language and literature in school teaching, professional work and scientific studies.
The Slavic Society was founded in June 1948, in which Slavists of all directions gathered, and in which teachers of Serbo-Croatian and Russian language and literature predominated. In 1954, due to differences of interest, a large number of members and the breadth of the area in which they gathered, the Slavic Society split into two societies: one gathered members working in the field of Serbian language and literature and the other Russian language and literature and other Slavic languages.
On that occasion, teachers, professional and scientific workers in the Serbian language and literature renewed the Society for Serbian Language and Literature, which was founded in 1910 and operated until the Second World War. They constituted and continued their work in the spirit of the program and 318 Slobodan Ž. Markovic, the tradition that this Society has achieved in the previous three decades of its rich activity. At the assembly at which the Society was renewed, a decision was made to start a new journal of the Society.
Knjiženstvo, Journal for Studies in Literature, Gender and Culture was established within the project of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia – Knjiženstvo, Theory and History of Women’s Writing in Serbian until 1915.
Knjiženstvo is a scientific journal (category M52) included in the databases EBSCO, ERIH PLUS and CEEOL. The journal publishes scientific papers, interviews and book reviews dedicated to topics from literature, other arts and culture in general, with a focus on gender research – more specifically, women’s literary and artistic work in any language, culture or period. Furthermore, Knjiženstvo has promoted and advocated digital humanities since its founding.
The journal is published annually in an electronic format. Manuscripts prepared according to author instructions are submitted by September 1 of the current year to the following e-mail addresses: knjizenstvo@fil.bg.ac.rs and knjizenstvo@gmail.com. Manuscripts selected by the editorial board then undergo a peer review process.
The journal is published in December on the Knjiženstvo platform.
The journal Knjiženstvo, Journal for Studies in Literature, Gender and Culture, in its work and editorial organization, as well as the content published, maintains exclusively the stances and procedures that are non-discriminatory.
Letopis Matice srpske is a literary periodical with the longest press run in the whole world. It has been published, without major interruptions, since the year 1824. The fact that such a tradition was created by the very Serbian culture that was exposed to interruptions of its cultural development seems both unusual and amazing. Founded in Novi Sad, printed in Buda and entitled Serbska letopis (Serbian Chronicle), in accordance with the intention of its founder, Georgije Magarašević, it became the center piece for presenting the results of literary and scientific achievements. In addition, Letopis Matice srpske systematically explored discoveries that focused on language, literature, history, religion, folklore and culture of, not only the Serbian people, but of the entire Slavic world from the Adriatic Sea to the Arctic Ocean and from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
Organizational difficulties of the entire matter prompted Magarašević to consult with merchants and members of the intellectual elite in Pest, who came to the conclusion that a solution might be found in the establishment of a cultural institution that would not only manage the Letopis, but, would develop a much wider range of activities. As part of these activities, publishing was instigated immediately, due to the fact that the founders strongly believed that the core of their task was to continuously publish and distribute Serbian manuscripts from then on and forevermore. Thus, at the very beginning of the activities of Matica Srpska, the books of Milovan Vidaković, Jovan Sterija Popović, Dositej Obradović, Lukijan Mušicki, Jovan Subotić and others were published.
For its entire press run, the Letopis Matice srpske, having undergone slight changes in its title (Novij serbskij letopis, from 1837; Srbskij letopis, from 1855; Srbski letopis, from 1865; Srpski letopis, from 1867; Letopis Matice srpske, from 1987), has remained the most important, though somewhat conservative, Serbian periodical with the aim to gather true values of Serbian literature, science and culture. This mission of Matica Srpska has been realized with varied, but undoubted success. Interruptions in the activities occurred only at times of great historical events when basic conditions of cultural work were not met: during the period of strong attempts of the Hungarian administration to close the institution 1835–1836, during the revolutionary year of 1848, as well as during World War I and World War II. The Letopis Matice srpske was edited by many cultural workers.
