About the Journal

Focus and Scope

«Artes – Rivista di arte, letteratura e musica dell’Officina San Francesco Bologna» features articles in Italian, English, French, German and Spanish exploring issues related to the arts, literature, music and cultural history, including as they relate to the Franciscan tradition of valuing the person.

Section Policies

Articles

Submissions welcome / Peer Reviewed

Opinion pages and notes

Submissions welcome / Not Peer Reviewed

Activities of the Officina San Francesco

Not accepting submissions / Not Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

«Artes – Rivista di arte, letteratura e musica dell’Officina San Francesco Bologna» employs double-blind peer review. . On receiving the article, the Editor in consultation with the Associate Editors will assess whether the submission is eligible for review; preliminary checks include anti-plagiarism verification using iThenticate software. If deemed eligible, the editorial staff will send the submission, in an anonymized format, to two external reviewers. After receiving the Reviewers’ opinions, the Editor may opt for one of the following:

the submission is rejected;
the submission may be accepted after making the changes suggested by the Reviewers. In this case, the Author will have the opportunity to re-submit the paper, taking into account the comments of the Reviewers. If the requested changes are substantial, the new version of the text may be sent anonymously to the Reviewers for further evaluation and potential final approval;
the submission is accepted as-is and can be published in its current form.

In all cases, the Authors will be receive a copy of the Reviewers’ comments.

The entire review process will take not longer than six months.

Publication Frequency

The Journal publishes one issue per year.

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 the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to their Author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions of either the Author(s) or the Journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the Journal about every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish in this Journal maintain the copyrights.

Authors are welcome to post 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

Artes 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:

ACNP – Italian Catalogue of Serials
BASE – Bielefield Academic Search Engine
Bibliografia internazionale dantesca
DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
EBSCO - Modern Language Association International Bibliography
EBSCO - RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek – Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
ERIH PLUS – European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
Google Scholar – Academic search engine
KubiKat
Regesta Imperii – Literature database for the Middle Ages
Ulrich’s – Global Serials Directory
Worldcat – The world’s largest library catalog

Archiving Policy

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

Publisher

Dipartimento delle Arti – DAR

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
via Barberia 4
40123 - Bologna (Italy)