About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The magazine offers studies and research in the history of art in its various articulations, mainly in its historical critical, theoretical and methodological aspects.

Peer Review Process

Figure is a peer-review journal. All submitted articles will undergo a peer review process, based on initial editor screening and anonymised refereeing by at least two selected experts.

Publication Frequency

The journal is published once a 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 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 its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board.

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

Figure 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.

Editorial Board

Daniele Benati, Sonia Cavicchioli, Marzia Faietti, Stefano Ferrari, Antonella Huber, Vincenzo Gheroldi, Paolo Granata, Irene Graziani, Fabrizio Lollini, Federica Muzzarelli, Marinella Pigozzi, Roberto Pinto, Tiziana Tampieri, Chiara Tartarini, Sara Ugolini.

Indexing and Abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases:

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)

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