1. Focus and Scope
   

«Connessioni remote» is a bi-annual open access scientific journal directed by Anna Monteverdi, on the relationship between technology, visual art and theater; is inspired by Giacomo Verde's technological art and artivism. It is divided into the following sections: Techno-theatro (Performing arts and technology); Artivism (Media Activism, Networking as art); Giacomo Verde's Archive (essays on the artist and unpublished materials); Artist Tributes (videos, animations, net art works). The section Do it in practise is edited by Vanessa Vozzo.The journal adopts open access policy to guarantee the maximum diffusion and usability of the contents. The articles of the journal are divided into: essays approved by the editors and subjected to an anonymous double scientific review following a call and in articles and interventions not subject to revision selected by the editorial committee.

Qui: Open Access policy, Creative Commons licency, Copyrights, Archiving

 

2. Peer review process
   

Each submitted manuscript via call must be approved before by the Editors and then it is reviewed by two external reviewers under a double-blind peer review process where both the reviewers and the authors are kept anonymous. Reviewers are asked to evaluate the manuscript based on its originality and soundness of methodology. Contributions extra call (for the section Artistic Tribute or as generic article)  are reviewed by Editors themeselves withour Peer review and they are processed and stored by the University’s journal hosting platform (OJS).

3. Publication Frequency
   

«Connessioni remote» will publish two issues every year, six-monthly.

4. Open access Policy

The journal «Connessioni remote» provides immediate open access to its content on the principles that publicly funded research must be freely accessible to the public and that making research freely available supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and fosters progress. «Connessioni remote» is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0). With the licence CC-BY, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy their contribution. The work must be properly attributed to its author. «Connessioni remote» does not charge either submission or publication fees nor article-processing expenses. 

5. Publication Ethics
   

Connessioni remote is a peer-reviewed journal, informed by the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All parties involved in the act of publishing (the Authors, the Editors, the Reviewers) agree to the following standards of expected ethical behavior.

Editors

• Accountability and Responsibility for Journal Content
  
• The Editors take full responsibility for everything published in the Journal. The Editors may confer with the Scientific Committee or Reviewers in making their decision. The Editors are constrained by the requirements of current laws about libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
• Fair Play
• The Editors evaluate manuscripts on academic merit alone, without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
• Editorial Confidentiality
  
• The Editors and any Editorial Staff strive to protect the confidentiality of Authors’ material. They must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, the reviewers or potential reviewers, the Editorial Staff.
• Conflicts of Interest
• Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in Editors’ own research without the express written consent of the Author.

Peer Reviewers

• Professional Responsibility
  
• The peer review process is an essential model for Connessioni remote. The peer review process assists the Editors in accepting or rejecting a manuscript and the Authors in improving their paper.
• Timeliness
  
• Referees who feel unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that a prompt review will be impossible, should promptly notify the editor and excuse themselves 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.
• Bias and competing interests
• The Referee provides a fair, honest, and unbiased assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the manuscript. Any personal judgment on the author is inappropriate.
• Bibliographical Advice
  
• The Referee should explain what additional analyses would clarify the work submitted. The Referee should also call to the Editors’ attention any substantial similarity between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
• Conflicts of Interest
  
• Any information obtained through the peer review process is confidential and can’t be used for personal interests.

Authors

• Authorship and Responsibility
  
• All Authors take responsibility for the conduct and validity of their research, and must always appropriately quote from their sources.
• Multiple 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.
• Authorship of the Paper
  
• All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate 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.
• Rights
• The Authors maintain their rights to intellectual property, granting the Journal the non exclusive right of publishing the paper.
• Errors and Corrections
  
• If an Author detects a substantial error, he must promptly inform the Editors.

6. Archiving

The University of Milan has an archival arrangement with the National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome within the national project Magazzini Digitali.

Archiving

The University of Milan has an archival arrangement with the National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome within 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 di COPE.  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.