About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal deals with Italian Prehistory and Protohistory. The journal intends to spread to the scientific world the results of recent researches and studies about prehistory and protohistory, in order to bring out knowledge and information on the issues and contexts of the most remote ages of history. The publication in digital format allows to draw attention to those contributions often waiting for suitable editorial spaces, due to their peculiar wealth of data and documentation. The journal aims to become an area of sharing and debate on the analysis and interpretations of prehistoric contexts, research methods, and economic and social transformations of prehistory.

Peer Review Process

The journal policy states that for each submission, the Journal Manager or the Section Editor identify one or two reviewers among scholars and experts of the topic related to the paper submitted. Once accepted, the reviewer has fixed time to evaluate the submission. Authors must understand the peer review process as an opportunity to improve their product, with the advice of experts that can identify weak points or sections not completely explained. Reviewers can help to correct the paper with suggestions and proposals. The Peer Review Process is simply consultative and the editor is not formally obliged to accept conclusions of reviewers.

Publication Frequency

The journal is annual.

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.

This journal is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence 4.0 (CC-BY-NC).

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the final version of the papers, without commercial purposes. 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, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal board for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Publication Fees

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

Ethics

IpoTESI di Preistoria 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:

  • ACNP – Italian Catalogue of Serials
  • BASE – Bielefield Academic Search Engine
  • DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Google Scholar – Academic search engine
  • JournalTOCs – International aggregator of scientific articles TOCs
  • 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 within the national project Magazzini Digitali: http://www.depositolegale.it/editori-aderenti/

Publisher

Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà – DISCI
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Piazza S. Giovanni in Monte 2
40124 - Bologna (Italy)