OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Otium. Archeologia e cultura del Mondo antico:

• provides open access to its content;
• does not have article processing charges (APC) nor article submission charges (ASC);
• With the licence CC-BY, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy their contribution. The work must be properly attributed to its author and Otium. Archeologia del Mondo Antico should be mentioned.

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

Submissions are first evaluated by the Editors / Board of Directors and by the members of the Editorial Boards within three weeks. If the manuscript is considered suitable for publication, it is sent to two reviewers.

Two referees will be asked to evaluate the manuscript within two weeks, choosing one of the following judgment: A (positive) – B (negative) – C (revision needed). If the reviews are positive, but the manuscript requires to be revised and resubmitted, the author is expected to submit the revised version in three weeks. The peer review process is double-blind, whereby both referees and authors are kept anonymous.

Publication decisions by the Editors / Board of Directors are final.

 

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

The journal Otium is published in two issues per year. Once the current issue is open, scientific contributions are progressively uploaded until the issue is closed.

INDEXING

Otium is indexed by the following abstracting and indexing services:

• Dyabola

LEGAL DEPOSIT

Otium is experimenting the National legal deposition and long-term digital preservation service. Within the project the persistent identifier NBN (national bibliographic number) is assigned to each article.

 

ARCHIVING

Otium utilizes the LOCKSS, system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

  

PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

Otium. Archeologia e Cultura del Mondo antico is an online, open access and double-blind peer-reviewed journal.Otium’’s ethic statements are based on the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors  developed by the COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics

It is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the Editorial Board, the Peer-Reviewers, the Authors and the Publisher.

 

DUTIES OF EDITORS

Publication Decisions

The Board of Directors of Otium. Archeologia e Cultura del Mondo antico has final responsibility for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. It is guided in reaching his decision referees’ reports and may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision. The Board of Directors and the Editorial Board operate in the best interests of the Journal, for the purpose of improving its quality.

Fair Play

Editors at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

Editors and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers and other editorial advisors, as appropriate.

Retracting Published Works

Editors are obliged to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies whenever appropriate.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an Editor-in-Chief's (or any member of the Editorial Board) own research without the express written consent of the author.

 

DUTIES OF REVIEWERS

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

The double-blind peer review assists the Board of Directors and the Editors in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editors.

Confidentiality

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 Editors.

Standards of Objectivity

Review of submitted manuscripts shall be objective and the reviewers shall express their views clearly with supporting arguments to the Editors through the double-blind peer review process.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers shall not accept for review any manuscript for which there is a potential conflict of interest.

DUTIES OF AUTHORS

Originality and Plagiarism

Authors promise to submit only original, unpublished research, to present their work in a neat and orderly fashion and, whenever necessary, to discuss it with the Editors. They provide correct indications of all bibliographic sources and/or any other accessed source utilized in the preparation of their work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Copyright

Authors guarantee that their work, figures included, does not infringe any existing copyright and discharge the Editors of any potential liability.

In the case of a derivative work (translation, summary, adaptation, etc.), in order to ascertain the potential ownership of intellectual property and economic exploitation of the author/s or of the publisher/s of the original work, Otium. Archelogia e Cultura del Mondo antico states that the bibliographical reference of the original work should be the following: Author/s, Title, Publisher, Place of Publication, Year of Publication, URL (if available), etc..

Authors guarantee that their work is not libellous or detrimental to anyone’s moral and/or economic rights.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.

Errors in Published Works

When an Author discovers any significant error or inaccuracy in his/her published work, it is the Author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editors and cooperate with the editors to retract or correct the paper.