About the Journal
Focus and Scope
OS is a laboratory of ideas and research through which it is intended to promote the centrality of historical studies in the practices of knowledge, transmission and enhancement of production landscapes.
The Journal is expression of the National Association RESpro - Rete di storici per i paesaggi della produzione and is committed to giving voice to all researchers interested in defending and supporting the historical culture of work and places of production in all their declinations, economic and social, modern and contemporary, architecture and art, in an interdisciplinary perspective constantly open to the world of conservation, archaeology, geography and communication.
OS includes historical studies and applied research on production systems, from forestry-pastoral environments to agriculture and industry, and on rural and urban landscapes, captured in their material and immaterial dimensions and in their different economic, political, social, artistic and territorial articulations.
OS is a scientific journal published in Open Access on the platform SHARE Riviste within the Convention Universities Share, under the patronage of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.
All texts published in OS will be evaluated following the double blind peer review process, by two or more readers identified within a wide international circle of specialists.
In order to contribute to forthcoming issues of the journal with essays and articles, please send an abstract of the proposal, with contact details and a brief biographical profile, to resproretedistorici@gmail.com
The proposed publication will be evaluated by the Steering Committee and the Scientific Committee.
Journal Sections
Essays: OS publishes original works in Italian and in other languages (English, French and Spanish). It accepts a broad time range from the Middle Ages onwards. It welcomes theoretical contributions, historiographical debates as well as research based on case studies. It is possible to submit proposals to initiate monographic issues.
Territories at work: this is a section allocated to collecting news and reports on scientific and dissemination initiatives relating to the issues examined by OS. The material and any documentation (programs, posters) must be sent directly to the scientific committee of the journal.
The OS library: OS promotes the dissemination of scientific research results and the debate on historiographic production through editorial reviews, comments and recommendations.
Author Guidelines
Authors have to adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in Editorial rules, available at the following link:
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.
OS does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges.
OS is is published under a Licence Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
With the licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, copy and re-distribute the material in any medium format under the following terms: the user must give appropriate credit, provides a link to the license, and indicates changes were made. The user may not use the material for commercial purposes; if he/she remixes, transforms, or builds upon the material, he/she may not distribute the modified material. The work must be properly attributed to its author and OS should be mentioned. Furthermore, the author retains the publishing rights.
OS endorses the principles proposed by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) supporting a free dissemination of scientific research. By “open access” to peer-reviewed research literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving (by RoMEO/SHERPA)
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author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) |
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author can archive publisher's version/PDF |
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On open access repositories Publisher's version/PDF may be used Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence 4.0 is available |
Publication ethics and publication malpractice
The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential model for OS.
It is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer and the publisher.
OS's ethic statements are based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Authors, editors and referees are required to know and share the following principles.
Duties of Editors
Publication decisions
The editors of the OS are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
Fair play
The editors at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality
The editors and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author.
Duties of Reviewers
Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review assists 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 editor and excuse himself from the review process.
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
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editors attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Duties of Authors
Reporting standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
Data Access and Retention
If applicable, authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
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. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editors or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
Plagiarism Policy
All articles submitted to OS Journal will be checked to detect plagiarism.
A specific process is followed to manage a case of plagiarism.
OS follows the guidelines contained in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) flowcharts (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).
In the case of suspected plagiarism in a published article:
1) The person who advised OS of the situation is informed about the process to be followed.
2) The contributions are compared to check the degree of copying.
3) All Editors of OS are informed and asked for their comments.
4) The author of the article in question is contacted with documentary evidence of the case of plagiarism and is asked for a response.
If the author is found guilty of plagiarism:
1) The editor of the journal/series in which the original plagiarised contribution was published and the authors of the plagiarised article/book are informed;
2) OS publishes an official retraction of the paper;
3) The article is withdrawn from the OS site;
4) OS will not publish any article of the author concerned for a period of 5 years.
Indexing & Abstracting
OS appears in the main databases of journals and in the catalogues of hundreds libraries worldwide.
Consent and Privacy Policy
The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to informs readers about the
authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.
This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here.
The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.
Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design.
The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.
