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EDITORIAL POLICIES

• Focus and scope
• Peer Review Process
• Frequency of publication
• Open Access Policy
• Archive
• Code of Ethics for publications
• Indexing
• Gratuitousness of publications (APC-ASC)
• Quality control

Focus and scope
Opus. Quaderno di storia, architettura, restauro, disegno welcomes scientific essays based on research and original interpretations of topics related to history and criticism of architecture, theory and project of restoration, design and  representation of the built environment. The aim is to focus on the processes of knowledge, analysis, and  management of cultural architectural heritage. Researches based on interdisciplinary associations and open to international comparison are preferred.
Quaderno di storia, architettura, restauro, disegno publishes essays in Italian, French, English, Spanish

Peer Review Process
The proposal of the papers to be published is submitted for the approval to the Direttore Responsabile and Comitato Direttivo (Managing Director and Executive Committee) that will examine its compliance with the interests and objectives of the journal. Special attention is vested in the originality of the work, which must be unpublished and not submitted at the same time to other journals. The paper is then submitted to the judgment of two anonymous reviewers - double-blind review - who will communicate to the Director their assessments on the originality, exhaustiveness and quality of the work. The Director and Executive Committee, based on the judgment of the reviewers, will ultimately decide whether or not to publish the paper.

Frequency of publication
The essays of the journal will be published all together, as part of a full issue, with a definitive summary, on an annual basis.

Open Access Policy
Opus. Quaderno di storia, architettura, restauro, disegno follows an "open access" policy, starting 18 months after publication, to all its contents in the belief that free unclosed access to research guarantees a greater exchange of knowledge.
Opus. Quaderno di storia, architettura, restauro, disegno history does not require authors to contribute with any input for the publication and review of papers (APC-ASC)
By submitting a paper to the journal, the author implicitly accepts its publication under the Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial 2.0 Generic License.
The authors retain the copyright on their contributions, while ensuring that anyone, starting 18 months after publication, can download, reuse, reprint, distribute, and copy published materials, according to the definition sanctioned by BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative's definition of Open Access) as long as the author and the title of the journal are correctly quoted and the usage is not for commercial purposes.

Storage
Opus. Quaderno di storia, architettura, restauro, disegno uses PKP Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) for digital archiving policy, with the creation of permanent archives of the journal dedicated to the preservation and recovery of content (more on the LOCKSS Program).

Publications Code of Ethics
Opus. Quaderno di storia, architettura, restauro, disegno is a peer-reviewed scientific journal inspired by the code of ethics of publications developed by COPE: Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Publishing decisions
The Managing Director and Executive Committee of Opus. Quaderno di storia, architettura, restauro, disegno are responsible for the final decision on the publication of the papers, but only after hearing the opinion of the reviewers, according to the peer-reviewed scientific evaluation system. The reviewers (referees), chosen by the Executive Committee according to a criterion of competence and high qualification in the matter, will operate in the double blind peer-review mode. The texts published in the "Editoriale" (Editorial), "Attualità" (Current topics)  and "Recensioni" (Reviews) sections are not subject to anonymous review, unless otherwise decided by the Executive Committee.

Correctness
The Managing Director and Executive Committee evaluate the papers that are presented for publication on the basis of their content without discrimination of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, citizenship, political orientation of the authors.

Data privacy and retention
The Managing Director, the Executive Committee and members of the Editorial Staff undertake not to disclose information about the submitted papers to other people other than the author, referees and publisher.
The Editorial Staff keeps in a confidential database the results of the reporting processes of the papers, allowed or not to be published.

Conflict of interest and transparency
The Managing Director, the Executive Committee and members of the Editorial Staff undertake not to use in their own research the contents of a paper submitted for publication without the written consent of the author.
Opus. Quaderno di storia, architettura, restauro, disegno, uses the same evaluation procedure, anonymous and objective, with the contributions submitted for publication by the members of the Executive Committee and the Editorial Staff.

Quality
The Executive Committee periodically reviews the peer-review process in order to introduce possible improvements. It also reserves the right to consult with an additional referee in the event of a conflict between multiple opinions when the decision about the publication of the paper cannot be resolved by the Executive Committee alone. Collaboration with a reviewer will be interrupted if the evaluation process standards have not been met at any moment, time or way.

Referee duties

Contribution to the editorial decision
Peer-review is a procedure that helps editors make decisions about the papers submitted and can help the author to improve their contribution.

Respect for the times
The referee who does not feel adequate to the task proposed or who knows that they cannot carry out the reading on the required time is obliged to report in a timely manner to the Executive Committee.

Confidentiality
Any text, assigned to referees anonymously, must be considered confidential. Therefore, such texts should not be discussed with others without explicit permission from the Executive Committee.

Objectivity
Peer-review must be conducted objectively. Any personal judgment on the author is inappropriate. Referees are required to adequately justify their judgments according to a standardized card provided to them by the Executive Committee.

Text indications
The referees undertake to indicate the bibliographic extension of fundamental works possibly overlooked by the author. The referee must also report to the editors any similarities or appropriations of other works known to them found during the reading process.

Conflict of interest and disclosure
Confidential information or guidance obtained during the peer-review process must be considered confidential and cannot be used for personal purposes. If the referee identifies the paternity of the test submitted to their assessment and there are conflicts of interest due to previous collaborative relationships, they are obliged not to accept the assessment, the same is true in the event of a competitive situation.

If the referee calls for changes to the text as the condition of its publication, and the Managing Director and Executive Committee judge it to be appropriate, it may verify its adoption by the author – where the author decides to accept them – before giving definitive consent to the publication.

Author duties

Originality and plagiarism
The authors are required to submit for appreciation unpublished and original contributions in all their parts and to cite, according to editorial rules, all the texts used.

Multiple, repetitive and/or concurrent publications
The author undertakes not to publish essays that present the same research in more than one journal. To present the same text to more than one journal at the same time is a behavior considered inappropriate to the normal functioning of the scientific community.

Specifying sources
The author must always provide the correct indication of the sources and contributions mentioned in the essay.

Authorship of the work
The author who sends the text to the evaluation  must ensure that all those who have made a significant contribution to the idealization, implementation and reworking of the research underlying the essay appear as co-authors, and that they have given their approval to the final version of the essay and its publication.
If other people have participated significantly in certain stages of the research, their contribution must be explicitly recognized, in the manner normally adopted by the scientific community.

Conflict of interest and disclosure
In presenting their contribution to Opus. Quaderno di storia, architettura, restauro, disegno, the authors implicitly admit that there are no conflicts of interest that may have affected the results achieved or the interpretations proposed. The authors must also indicate any financial source of the research and/or project through which the paper was carried out.

Errors in published papers
When an author identifies a relevant error or inaccuracy in a essay, they are required to inform the journal's management in a timely manner, providing all the information needed to make the appropriate corrections.

Indexing
Opus. Quaderno di storia, architettura, restauro, disegno is in the main databases of periodicals and in the catalogs of numerous national and international libraries.

• ANCP - Catalogo Italiano dei Periodici (Italian Catalog of Periodic)
• BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
• OPAC - Catalogo del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (National Library Service Catalog)
• Google Scholar - Academic Search Engine
• JOURN - Academic Search Engine
• OCLC WorldCat, analytics
• Copac - Copac academic and national library catalogue
• KUBIKAT - Single library catalogue of Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in München, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte iin Paris, Hertziana Library in Rome
• ZDB – Zeitschriftendatenbank (Journal Database Bank)
• Zeitschriftenverzeichnis der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Journal Catalog of the Max Planck Society)
• Biblioteca Hertziana (Hertziana Library)

Free publication (APC-ASC)
Publication in Opus. Quaderno di storia, architettura, restauro, disegno is free, as well as the review of papers (APC-ASC)

Quality control
Opus. Quaderno di storia, architettura, restauro, disegno is also included in important international databases such as: SCOPUS (in the process of being defined); Thomson Reuters Web of Science "Core Collection", in ESCI - Emerging Sources Citation Index (WoS – Web of Science).