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 4.0 International 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.

Publication Fees

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

Ethics

“piano b. Arti e culture visive” adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Indexing and abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases and search engines:

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Dipartimento delle Arti – DAR
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Piazzetta G. Morandi, 2
40125 - Bologna (Italy)