Policies

1. Open Access Policy

Artology: Studies in the Arts 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.

The Journal’s Open Access Policy is based on the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

Anyone is free to download, re-use, print, and share the published content.

2. Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

3. Article Processing and Submission Charges

Authors can publish free of charge: no payments are required, as Artology does not impose article submission charges or article processing charges (APCs).

4. Peer Review

Artology selects papers for publication through a double-blind peer review process, ensuring the quality and integrity of the content. In accordance with international ethical guidelines, the Editorial and Advisory Boards are committed to maintaining a fair, impartial, and timely review process.

Decisions regarding acceptance or rejection will be made within three months of submission and will be based solely on the importance, originality, and scholarly relevance of the work. Reviewers are selected from a pool of scholars with expertise relevant to the submission, and their identities—as well as those of the authors—remain anonymous throughout the process.

Editors strive to protect the confidentiality of all materials and require reviewers to do the same. Any manuscript received for review is treated as a confidential document. Reviewers will not be given access until they have agreed to review the submission.

Reviewers are asked to provide constructive feedback, focusing on the manuscript’s strengths and weaknesses and supporting their evaluations with clear evidence. Evaluation criteria include: impact on the field, originality, methodological rigor, relevance to Artology, usefulness of findings, quality of argumentation, referencing, and overall writing style.

Editors guarantee transparency and ethical conduct in peer review and are responsible for taking appropriate actions in case of misconduct or conflicts of interest. Manuscripts are not shared with editors of other journals unless agreed upon by the author or in cases of alleged misconduct. Submission status is only communicated to the authors. Artology's web-based system prevents unauthorized access.

5. Copyright Policy

The author grants Artology: Studies in the Arts the right to publish the work for the first time—or republish it—within one year from submission, and a perpetual non-exclusive license to distribute the work free of charge worldwide by any means, including via Artology’s website.

The author retains the right to create derivative works and to reproduce, distribute, perform, or publicly display their work in the context of conferences, presentations, lectures, or any other professional activity.

Authors are also entitled to disseminate their work in its published form via their personal or institutional websites, or through disciplinary repositories, without restrictions.

Preprint and postprint version of the articles can be archived anywhere under the same license.

In accordance with national legislation, authors waive any forms of compensation for non-profit photocopying rights and library lending.

6. Online-First Article Policy

Artology: Studies in the Arts initially publishes chosen articles online prior to their formal inclusion in an issue. These online-first items are allocated provisional pagination, indicating that the page numbers are not definitive and may be altered upon inclusion in the whole issue.

This tentative pagination is intended solely for the preliminary online release and should not be regarded as the official numbering for the final version. Upon compilation and readiness for publication, the pages will be renumbered in accordance with the definitive pagination of the issue, and the article will be allocated the final volume and issue number.

This policy guarantees the timely availability of online-first articles to readers while preserving the correctness and uniformity of the journal's final published format.