About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The present Journal aims to celebrate the Mediterranean sea and contribute to developing themes, studies and imagery that the krater signed by the Greek Aristonothos still evokes today. Deposed in the tomb of an Etruscan, it tells of stories and relationships between different cultures that take place in this sea and on the lands which connects.
Created in 2007 in paper version as a series publishing conference proceedings and miscellaneous volumes, since 2010 it has also been online on the OJS platform of the University of Milan. Since 2020 Aristonothos has finally turned into a journal, accepting articles from scholars of antiquities studies with particular reference to the cultures of the Mediterranean basin and becoming a forum where innovative and original research and contributions can converge.
Peer review process
In order to guarantee the scientific quality of the journal, the proposed contributions will be sent to at least two anonymous reviewers (according to the blind peer review system) who will evaluate their originality and method. The paper, subject to the opinion of the reviewers, may be accepted, returned to the authors for changes or corrections or rejected. Peer review 2020-2023
Open Access Policy
This journal provides open access to its contents, in the belief that making research freely available to the public improves the exchange of knowledge globally, inspired by the founding principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/translations).
Publishing fee
In order to guarantee the widest circulation and fruition of its contents, the journal does not require any kind of financial contribution or expense for publishing the contributions.
Editorial rights policy
The Authors retain the rights to their work and assign to the Journal the right of first publication of the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons License - Attribution 4.0 International which allows others to share the work indicating the intellectual authorship and the first publication on this Journal. The Authors also grant the perpetual right to distribute it free to the public in any medium and anywhere in the world, including communication to the public via the Journal's website.
Preprint and postprint version of the articles can be archived anywhere under the same license.
The Authors may adhere to other non-exclusive license agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work (e.g. deposit it in an institutional archive or publish it in a monograph), provided they indicate that the first publication took place in this Journal.
The Authors retain the right to disseminate the work with open access, through their website or through an institutional or disciplinary archive, from the time of its publication.
The Authors retain the right to create derivative works and to reproduce, distribute, perform or publicly display their work during lectures, conferences or presentations, or other works of a scientific nature and professional activities by specifying the place of publication.
The Authors renounce, in agreement with the Publisher, any form of remuneration granted by the national legislation in force to authors and publishers for non-profit reprography and library loan rights.
Archiving
The University of Milan has an archiving agreement with the Central National Libraries of Florence and Rome within the framework of the national project Magazzini Digitali.
The journal has enabled the PKP PN (Preservation Network) plugin, in order to preserve digital contents through LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) project.
Plagiarism
Editors have a duty to act promptly in case of errors and misconducts, both proven and alleged. This duty extends to both published and unpublished papers. In case such as errors in articles or in the publication process, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, appropriate steps will be taken, following the recommendations, guidelines and flowcharts from COPE (https://publicationethics.org/retraction-guidelines). Corrections will happen with due prominence, including the publication of an erratum (errors from the publication process), corrigendum (errors from the Author(s)) or, in the most severe cases, the retraction of the affected work. Retracted papers will be retained online, and they will be prominently marked as a retraction in all online versions, including the PDF, for the benefit of future readers.
iThenticate
The journal performs a Similarity Check on the submissions received, through iThenticate software.
