The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University was created as part of a grandiose university development project. The first issue of the journal was published on October 10, 1999.
The Bulletin owes its existence to two Honorary Figures of Russian Higher Education and Recipients of the Russian Government Award in the field of education – Professor Boris P. Nevzorov, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, and Professor Konstantin E. Afanasyev, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
The first issues of the Bulletin published manuscripts submitted by the residents of the Kemerovo State University. The Bulletin had no sections and accepted articles in all disciplines featured by the local curriculum. The editorial board was confined to scientists from the Alma Mater.
In 2008, the Russian Press Union awarded the Bulletin with the Prize of the Golden Press Fund. The award is given to quality periodicals that promote ethical and moral principles and contribute to the intellectual welfare of Russian people.
The Bulletin was included in the list of peer-reviewed editions recommended by the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles in 2010. This meant that the Commission recommended 14 sections of the Bulletin for publications to scientists seeking various degrees. In the same year, the Bulletin entered the Russian Science Citation Index. The editors decided to follow an open access policy. Since 2008, the Bulletin has published complete articles on its website and in the largest RuNet e-libraries – eLIBRARY.RU and CyberLeninka. In 2011, the Bulletin was included in two EBSCO Publishing databases – Academic Search Premier and Academic Search Complete.
By 2012, the Bulletin had turned from a local periodical into a serious scientific journal with an international team of editors, reviewers, and authors. The current editorial board was created in 2012. Initially, it included scientists from Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Serbia, Slovakia, Germany, and South Korea. Subsequently, scientists from Great Britain, Mongolia, and Poland joined in. Nowadays, the Bulletin of the Kemerovo State University is more than a platform where reputable researches exchange their views and discuss urgent matters of science. It has become a school of life for young scientists.
In 2013, the Bulletin received a Diploma of the Far Eastern Regional Competition of University Books as the Best Periodical of the Year. In the same year, the complete issues were published in the e-library systems Lan’ and University Online Library.
In 2015, the list of peer-reviewed journals of the Higher Attestation Commission was reformed according to new standards, and only four of the sections of the Bulletin were included in it: Historical Sciences and Archaeology, Psychological Sciences, Literary Studies, and Linguistics. As a result, the Bulletin launched two new series: Humanities and Social Sciences (2016) and Political, Sociological and Economic Sciences (2017).
The policy of the editorial board is to integrate the Bulletin into the global publishing community. The main competitive advantages of the Bulletin are its high quality and open information policy. In 2016, its e-version moved to the Elpub platform. In the same year, the board began to promote the periodical in various international analytical, scientometric, and enterprise databases. As a result, the Bulletin joined the CrossRef international bibliographic reference system.
After another reform of the list of Russian peer-reviewed journals in 2018–2019, 11 sections of the Bulletin obtained the status. They were recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission for publishing scientific results in the following spheres: Russian History; General History; Archaeology; Historiography, Sources and Methods of Historical Research; Russian Language; Germanic Languages, Language Theory; Comparative Historical Typological and Comparative Linguistics; General Psychology, Psychology of Personality, History of Psychology; Social Psychology; Pedagogical Psychology.
The Bulletin publishes manuscripts submitted by scientists from leading universities and research organisations of Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Germany, Turkey, Serbia, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Poland, Israel, Finland, and Italy.
After another reform of the list of peer-reviewed journals in 2018–2019, the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles approved of 11 sections of the Bulletin: Domestic History; General History; Archaeology; Historiography, Source Studies and Methods of Historical Research; Russian Language; Germanic Languages, Language Theory; Comparative Historical Typological and Comparative Linguistics; General Psychology, Personality Psychology, History of Psychology; Social Psychology; Pedagogical Psychology.
The Journal is recommended to Ph.D. seekers by the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education for publishing dissertation research results in the following areas: Russian history, World History of various periods, Archeology, Historiography, Source Studies, and Historical Research Methods; Russian Language, Germanic Languages, Language Theory, Typological Historical, and Comparative Linguistics; General Psychology, Personality Psychology, Historical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Psychology of Education (since 2022).
The journal is included in the K1 in accordance with the information letter of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia dated December 6, 2022 No. 02-1198 "On the category of the list of reviewed scientific publications".
The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University is renamed to SibScript in 17 Feb 2023. Now we publish six issues per year instead of four. As a result, we are now able to publish thematic issues: issues 1 and 4 of each year focus on philology, literary criticism, and linguistics, issues 2 and 5 feature psychology, and issues 3 and 6 contain articles on history and archeology.
At present, the Journal is cited in three international databases: Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (since 2014), European Humanities and Social Sciences Directory ERIH PLUS (since 2019), and Directory of Open Access Journals (since 2019).
