About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The main focus of the journal will be to promote a global discussion forum and an interdisciplinary exchange among scholars exploring the topic of TV serial narratives from different perspectives.

SERIES will encourage innovation and research, contributing to a better understanding of the narrative, technological, economic, social, and cultural impact of TV serial dramas. To this end, some areas of interest will be:

  • Narrative analysis of specific phenomena, with a focus on innovative elements;
  • Studies on the influence and/or connection of serial narratives with forms of socialization and acculturation driven by social technologies;
  • Analysis of TV seriality as capable of advancing aesthetic thought;
  • Study of the relationship between technology and narrative;
  • Studies on the economic and innovative formulas in terms of the production chain and marketing strategies;
  • The impact and significance of serial products from a political, ethnological, or educational perspective;
  • The historical approach in terms of media history in order to locate and identify influences on TV seriality;
  • Studies on the evolution and characteristics of the phenomenon in different geographical areas;
  • Analyses and studies focusing on audiences. 

Peer Review Process

The review process combines double-blind reviewing and open reviewing.
The editors will assess whether the submission is eligible for review. After this formal assessment, if positive, the submission will be sent to two external referees.

Under particular circumstances, we may return to reviewers for further advice, or we may ask for the opinion of a third reviewer.

Based on the review reports the editors will make one of the following decisions:

  1. The submission is rejected. In this case, a written explanation will be provided.
  2. The submission is accepted with reviews. The author will have the opportunity to rework the paper, taking into account the comments of the referees and the editors. After the author's revision, the editors will assess the paper and make a final decision on publication.
  3. The submission is accepted.

The whole review process will take no longer than six months.
Editorials, Interviews, and Book Reviews will not be peer-reviewed.

Publication Frequency

The journal is biannual.

Open Access Policy

This journal 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.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to their author(s). It is not necessary to ask for further permissions both to the author(s) or the journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal of every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish in this journal maintain copyrights.

Authors are welcome to post pre-submission versions, the original submitted version of the manuscript (preprint), and the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories. Self-archiving can happen only upon the acceptance of the submission.

Publication Fees

The Journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Indexing and abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases:

  • ACNP – Italian Catalogue of Serials
  • BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
  • DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
  • ERIH PLUS - European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
  • Google Scholar – Academic search engine
  • JournalTOCs – The latest Journal Tables of Contents
  • ROAD – Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources
  • Scopus – The largest database of peer-reviewed literature
  • Open Policy Finder – Open Access policies database
  • Ulrich’s – Global Serials Directory
  • WorldCat – The world's largest library catalog
  • ZDB - Zeitschriftendatenbank – German Union Catalogue of Serials

Ethics

SERIES adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

SERIES is a joint project of the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Università di Bologna.

Universitat Politècnica de Valencia
Camino de Vera, s/n
46022 - Valencia

Dipartimento delle Arti – DAR
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Via Barberia, 4
40123 - Bologna (Italy)