About the Journal

Peer Review Process

This Journal uses a double-blind review process, in which the identities of neither author nor reviewers are revealed. This means that submitted articles will undergo a double checking by two anonymous reviewers chosen for their expertise in the same scholarly area of the author. The reviewers will assess the accuracy and the soundness of the research methods and procedures adopted by the author.

 

Submitted articles will be evaluated as follows:

1. if both reviewers evaluate that the manuscript is publishable without revisions, it will be then forwarded to the Editorial Staff for final editing;
2. if both reviewers evaluate that the manuscript is publishable but it needs to be revised, the manuscript will be forwarded to the author who must apply the reported drafting changes;
3. if both reviewers agree that the manuscript is lacking in scholarly validity and rigor, it will be rejected;
4. if the reviewers’ judgment is divided on the matter – that is only one of the reviewers evaluates that the manuscript is publishable –, the SEditors (dialoguing with the Guest Editor or the Guest Editors) will decide whether to publish the manuscript or to forward it to a third reviewer asking for an opinion.

The evaluation process results will be communicate to the author also in the case of a negative response.

Publication Frequency

The journal is biannual.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions, without any commercial purpose. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s), every derivative work must be redistributed under this same license. It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Authors are welcome to post pre-submission versions, the original submitted version of the manuscript (preprint) and the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories.

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

“piano b. Arti e culture visive” is a peer-reviewed journal based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines:
http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines
It is necessary to agree upon the standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the scientific editors, the scientific committee and executive boards, the guest editors of the volume, the peer reviewers, the editorial staff and the publisher.

Editor’s Duties

The Scientific Editors of the journal “piano b. Arti e culture visive” are responsible for deciding which of the texts submitted to the Scientific Committee and Executive Board or to the Guest Editors of the volume should be published. The Scientific Editors ensure the correctness of the systems used to evaluate, accept or reject the texts submitted by the Authors, they monitor the peer reviewing process and preserve anonymity of reviewers in relation to the specific evaluated text.

The Scientific Editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision. Furthermore, the Scientific Editors shall avoid any conflict of interest, discrimination on gender, religious or political beliefs or nationality with respect to the author.

The journal is supervised by the Scientific Editors and constrained by legal requirements and will inform the Publisher in the case of libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.

The Scientific Editors, the Guest Editors as well as the members of the Editorial Board must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers and the publisher.

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a Scientific Editors’, or in an Editorial Board member’s, own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

Peer reviewers assist the Scientific Editors in making editorial decisions within the arranged deadline.

Reviews must be conducted objectively, and explained clearly with supporting arguments.

Reviewers must not consider manuscripts of authors with whom they may have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships and connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected with the papers.

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Reviewers must identify relevant published works that has not been cited by the authors. A reviewer must also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Duties of Authors

Author guarantees that the text evaluated is original, unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for evaluation or publication to other journals; and s/he accepts the selection procedure of the text, and the peer review process.

If the manuscript is accepted by the journal, the author acknowledges that the publisher will be entitled to the publication right, authorizing all the uses mentioned on the release form that s/he must sign before the publication.

Author must properly acknowledge the sources of their work and obtain the necessary permits to the publication of images, tables, or other content already published in accordance with the Italian copyright law. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

The authorship must be correctly recognized specifying, in the case of a co-authored contribution, the names of all the co-authors. All the ones that might have brought a significant contribution to the conception, organization and realization of the research on which the manuscript is based on, must be indicated as co-authors. If others have contributed in a significant way to some phases of the research, their contribution must be formally recognized.

If the author becomes aware of any major errors in the publication, s/he shall immediately notify the editors and provide them with appropriate retractions or corrections of mistakes, also sending the errata.

All authors must disclose any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Archiving Policy

The University of Bologna has an archival arrangement with the National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome within the national project Magazzini Digitali.
http://www.depositolegale.it/editori-aderenti/