About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Griseldaonline aims to promote discussion and criticism starting from the texts (mainly, but not exclusively, literary), encouraging different approaches and methodologies. Griseldaonline publishes surveys and research that reflect the vastness and articulation of literary and cultural criticism. The magazine is in band A for the scientific-disciplinary sectors of Area 10 (Sciences of antiquity, philological-literary and historical-artistic) and, in particular, welcomes contributions related to the following areas:

  • Italian Literature
  • Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature
  • Drama, Art, Music and Performance Studies
  • Cinema, Photography and Television
  • Latin Language and Literature
  • Classical Philology

Section Policies

Tema

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Methodologica

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Omnibus

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Authors have to submit their contributions to the journal by accessing the platform and they can contact the editorial staff of the Journal by writing to the following address: .

The review process consist of a double blind peer review. The editors will assess whether the submission is eligible for review. As part of the initial quality assessment, each article will undergo plagiarism detection through iThenticate . After this formal assessment, if positive, the submission will be sent to one external referee.

Based on the review reports the editors will make one of the following decisions:

  1. The submission is rejected. In this case, a written explanation will be provided.

  2. The submission is rejected in its current state. In this case, the author will have the opportunity to re-submit the paper, taking into account the comments of the referees and the editor. When the submission is rejected in its current state (B) and the author wants to improve the paper, the editor assigned to that paper will support the author.

  3. The submission is accepted.

The whole review process will take not more than six months. Editorial, Interviews and Book Reviews will not be peer reviewed.

Publication Frequency

The journal publish two issues per year, in Summer and in Winter. Until 2018, the journal has been 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.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 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). Any derived work must be distributed under the same license. It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal 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 fees.

Ethics

Griseldaonline 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 and search engines:

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 di filologia classica e italianistica - Università di Bologna - FICLIT

Via Zamboni, 32
40126 - Bologna
Italy