About the Journal

Glocalism (ISSN 2283-7949) is a peer-reviewed, open-access and cross-disciplinary journal, established in 2013 and, since 2024, published by Milano University Press on behalf of the association Globus et Locus.

As Glocalism is a six-monthly journal, two issues are published annually.

However, after having gone through the peer review process, and accepted, each article is immediately published online on the journal's "First View" page.

Glocalism does not have article submission charges (ASCs) or article processing charges (APCs). All the articles are published without publication fees and are freely available online. They are published under the liberal Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International [CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed]). The author holds the copyright and retains publishing rights without restrictions.

Pre-print and post-print versions can be distributed under the same license.

Glocalism complies with the COPE Core Practices for Journal Publishers. It is identified by an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). Each article carries a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which serves as a unique electronic identification tag.

Manuscripts submitted to Glocalism are automatically checked by Crossref Similarity Check, powered by iThenticate, to detect possible plagiarism.

Glocalism’s website images are from Pixabay.com, which allows users to utilise content for free (without having to attribute the author) and to modify or adapt it into new works.

 

Archiving

The journal has enabled the PKP PN (Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network) plugin, in order to preserve digital contents through LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) project.

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Glocalism is included in “UGC-CARE List Group I”, prepared by the “Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics”, which was established by the UGC – University Grants Commission (New Delhi, India):

Glocalism is included in the list of Class A journals by ANVUR (Italy) for ASN  in the following sectors: 

  • 11/B1 (since 2021)
  • 14/A1 (since 2021)
  • 14/B1 (since 2021)

Glocalism is recognised as a scientific journal by ANVUR (Italy) for ASN  in the following fields:

  • Area 08 – Ingegneria civile ed Architettura
  • Area 10 – Scienze dell’antichità, filologico-letterarie e storico-artistiche
  • Area 11 – Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche
  • Area 12 – Scienze giuridiche
  • Area 13 – Scienze economiche e statistiche
  • Area 14 – Scienze politiche e sociali

Open to all authors:

Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation is committed to openness and inclusivity in scholarly publishing without author-facing charges for reading or publishing. We welcome submissions from all authors, regardless of their institutional affiliation, geographical location, or academic status. Submissions only must align with the aims and scope of the journal and meet the required quality standards once the reviewing process is completed.

Community-owned:

Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation is owned by Milano University Press, a public institution/organisation dedicated to advancing research and scholarship. The journal’s ownership and governance structure reflect its mission to support open and accessible academic publishing. We confirm that any commercial service providers involved in our operations only deal with service-related aspects of journal publishing. All content-related aspects of publishing, such as submission, peer review, acceptance, publication frequency, and scope of the journal, are controlled by the editors / the owners of the journal.