About the Journal
Hispania Antiqva. Revista de Historia Antigua is an annual digital journal which publishes original scholarly articles on spanish about Ancient History of Hispania as well as unpublished book reviews in these same field.
Hispania Antiqva was first published in the University of Valladolid (Spain) in 1971 (I.S.S.N.: 1130-0515), in the area of Ancient History, and since that time it has appeared annually. It was the first scientific journal of ancient history in the spanish university. It is specialized in ancient history of Spain (Hispania) and publishes articles and reviews. 40 volumes in paper have been published, the last of them in 2016. The journal has been included in several prestigious national and international data bases (such as the ISOC, Latindex or ERIH).
In 2017 the Area of Ancient History of the Department of Ancient and Medieval History of the University of Valladolid decided to continue the journal as an electronic publication, beginning a new period which is considered to be a continuation of the former one. The articles included in the volumes corresponding to the years 1971-2016 have been digitalized and may be consulted at the following link: Hispania antiqua - Dialnet.
In its new digital format Hispania Antiqva aims to achieve and maintain the maximum level of scientific-academic quality, for which reason it will try to achieve international scope and comply with all the requisites of quality scientific publications.
The Editorial Board and the Editorial Advisory Board of Hispania Antiqva (whose names are indicated in the corresponding sections) are formed by members of the University of Valladolid and by a large number of members from other Spanish and foreign universities. Both include a sufficient number of specialists to cover all the thematic areas of the ancient history of Hispania. More than a third of the Editorial Board is composed of members from institutions unrelated to the publisher (the University of Valladolid). With regard to the Editorial Advisory Board, over 75% of the members are not affiliated with the University of Valladolid while more than 45% work in foreign institutions. The members of the Editorial Board and the Editorial Advisory Board will ensure the continuing achievement of the level of quality of Hispania Antiqva.
The members of the Editorial Team will publish articles that have received a positive evaluation in the blind evaluation process. At least 75% of the articles published in Hispania Antiqva will be by authors with no relation to member of the Editorial Team.
Hispania Antiqva. Revista de Historia Antigua does not have either article submission charges or article processing charges. Articles and reviews published in Hispania Antiqva may be included in thematic or institutional repositories immediately after their publication as long as the text is not modified and the place where it is published is clearly stated.
Institutional affiliation
This journal is owned by the University of Valladolid (Spain), which provides its digital hosting and is responsible for its maintenance and management through Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid (EdUVa) and the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC). The University of Valladolid guarantees open access to the contents of the journal. The works published in the journal will be included in the Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Valladolid, guaranteeing their long-term preservation.
Peer Review Process:
Articles which do not comply with all the requisites established in the "Submissions > Author Guidelines" will be returned to the authors for their eventual correction. Articles which comply with all the requisites will be subject to a double process of evaluation: At first, the Editorial Board will make a selection from the work received, valuing if they meet the applicable requirements to quality academic publications. In a second moment, articles that have passed the first selection will be submitted to two experts in the field for a blind examination.
In order to maintain anonymity, authors are requested to refrain from referring to themselves in the first person. Should the evaluations be contradictory, the Editorial Board would request a third evaluation and then decide whether to publish the article. The decision of the Editorial Board is final and the authors will be informed of the decision within a maximum of six months following the reception of the paper. As a consideration to the referees, authors are kindly asked not to submit their article to another journal until they have received the results of the evaluation.
Articles with two positive reports will be sent to the authors to make the corrections suggested by the evaluators. The authors have a maximum period of one month to return articles which will be published when they are corrected.
Publication Frequency:
Hispania Antiqva. Revista de Historia Antigua is an annual publication.
The deadline for sending articles and reviews to each volume opens on 1st January. The current volume will be closed when one sufficient number of articles and reviews have been published. November 30th will be the closing date for each current volume. As a period of six months is required for the reviewing process, May 30th is the deadline for articles to appear in the current volume (if the deaddline for sending articles is closed before, woud be indicated in the section "Announcements"). Reviews may be sent until November 15th. Contributions receiving a positive evaluation will be published shortly after recepction.
Code of Conduct
The journal will comply with the ethical code established in the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines, which adheres to the principles proposed by the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE). This guide establishes the ethical way of proceeding by authors, editorial committees and reviewers, the content of which is summarized below:
- Authors
Authors of articles must undertake to conduct their research in an ethical and responsible manner, in compliance with prevailing legislation and the aspects included in section 1 of the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines. Work shall be original and unpublished, and shall be duly attributed to those who have prepared it, avoiding plagiarism (misappropriation of others' work or ideas), self-plagiarism (taking advantage of ideas or previous works of one's own authorship without citing the source) and multiple or redundant publication of the same work. Clear reference should be made to the sources used and to previous papers on the same subject matter, explaining the origin of the data and ideas, of the literal quotations or of other resources (such as graphs, images, tables, etc.). Failure to comply with these aspects may lead to the public disavowal of the articles, as explained in section 2. 2 of the aforementioned guide.
Information from private conversations or discussions with others in academia or science may not be used without their explicit permission. If images or graphics that are not originally from the author are included in the work, they must have express permission to use them and cite the authorship appropriately.
Woks that are being evaluated in whole or in part by another publisher cannot be submitted. Once submitted to Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, the originals cannot be sent to another journal or publisher until the evaluation process has been completed.
- Editorial committee
The members of the editorial committee must ensure the quality of the publications, promoting good practices in research, trying to avoid malpractice and trying to speed up the publication processes.
The evaluation process must be managed fairly and impartially, respecting the thinking of those who have written the work and guaranteeing them the right to disagree with the evaluation reports.
It is the responsibility of the editorial committee to manage the evaluation process of publications fairly and impartially, respecting the thinking of authors and guaranteeing them the right to disagree with the evaluation reports.
Members of the editorial committees must respect the confidentiality of the articles and their contents until the time of publication and may not use the data in the work for their own research, unless they have the express permission of the authors.
The editorial committees may consider the refusal of authors to have their work evaluated by certain persons, evaluating whether the reasons provided are justified, but they are not obliged to dispense with the use of these persons.
The editorial committees shall recognise the work of the reviewers, issuing, where appropriate, the corresponding accreditations to those who have adequately carried out their work.
The editorial committee must try to avoid malpractice in research (redundant publication, plagiarism or selfplagiarism, omission of cited sources, invented, misrepresented, manipulated or unauthorised use of data ...). Where instances of research malpractice are noted in manuscripts received, the author will be invited to correct them if the misuse affects a small part of the article, and the manuscript will be rejected if it affects a substantial part.
If malpractice is discovered after publication, the editorial committee will request clarifications from the author and, after evaluating their explanations, will make a decision on the matter. If only part of the work contains errors, this can be resolved by publishing an erratum. If the malpractice affects a substantial part of the article, it must be retracted, in accordance with the procedure described in section 2. 2 of the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines.
Likewise, the editorial committee will try to resolve any possible conflicts of interest described in section 2. 4 of the aforementioned guide.
- Reviewer/s
Reviewers must refrain from reviewing the works if they had any relationship with the authors that would advise against it, as explained in section 3 of the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines.
The work of reviewers must be confidential, both during the evaluation process and after the eventual publication of the evaluated work. Reviewers will not be able to use the evaluated content for their own personal benefit or that of other people, and they must respect the opinions and intellectual position of those who have written the articles, judging the work objectively and impartially, arguing their judgements appropriately, showing respect, constructively correcting possible errors and providing suggestions for improvement with regard to the contents, formal presentation, writing and bibliography used in the work.
In the event that any malpractice is detected in the work reviewed, reviewers must notify the editorial committees so that their members can take the corresponding decisions.
Reviewers are required to submit their reports within the agreed time. If they are unable to complete their task on time, or if they do not consider themselves capable of evaluating the work, they should inform the members of the editorial committees as soon as possible.
Open Access Policy and Copyright Notice:
This journal enables free and immediate access to its content to foster global knowledge.
The articles published at Hispania Antiqva. Revista de Historia Antigua will have a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
The journal allows the authors to retain publishing rights. Authors may reprint their articles in other media without having to request authorization, provided they indicate that the article was originally published in Hispania Antiqva. Revista de Historia Antigua.
Privacy Statement:
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by this journal (namely, those relating the processing of manuscripts submitted for publication, their evaluating process, or the distribution of information concerning the published works) and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Under REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), users can exercise their rights to request access to, and to rectification and erasure (right to be forgotten) of their personal information, restriction of and/or objection to data processing and portability, as well as not to transfer and/ or share your information with third parties individually.
Indexing:
Hispania Antiqua is indexed in the following databases or repositories:
L'Année philologique, CARHUS Plus+ 2014, CIRC. Clasificación integrada de revistas científicas (with a value greater than D), DIALNET, ERIHPlus, Periodicals Index Online , MIAR SHERPA/RoMEO, Dulcinea, DICE, RESH, ISOC, Regesta Imperii
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and preservation of digital files
A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) will be assigned to the articles published in the journal. The articles will also be housed in the Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Valladolid and in other databases, and will be archived by the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC).
Plagiarism prevention tool
The journal has an plagiarism prevention tool provided by the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC).