Open access
scopio Magazine Architecture, Art and Image Journal is a fully open access journal, allowing for immediate and free access to its content.
We share the beliefs expressed in the Declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) that by removing access barriers to academic journals such as Sophia will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.
Author charges
scopio Magazine Architecture, Art and Image does not charge any article processing charges nor submission charges; submission is entirely free for authors.
Licensing Terms
To achieve this goal, Authors agree to publish their articles in scopio Magazine Architecture, Art and Image Journal licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). As such, users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, provided these uses are non commercial, and that no derivatives are shared, commercially or not, in compliance with the terms of the license.
All the above mentioned uses require the user to give appropriate credit. This includes providing the name of the Author(s), that of Sophia Journal and the publisher scopio Editions. The credit should also include the copyright notice, the license notice with a link, a disclaimer notice and a link to the article in scopio Magazine Architecture, Art and Image Journal. Users may do this in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the Author(s), scopio Magazine Architecture, Art and Image Journal and/ or U. PORTO PRESS / scopio Editions endorses you or your use. For detailed information, please refer to the terms of the license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as well as Sophia's Copyright Terms.
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Copyright terms
Copyright on the articles and visual essays published in scopio Magazine Architecture, Art and Image Journal is held by their Author(s). In order to publish in scopio Magazine Architecture, Art and Image Journal, Authors agree to license their work under a CC BY NC-ND 4.0 International license, granting usage rights. Please refer to our Open Access Policy and Licensing Terms section (here).
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Author Self-Archiving Policy
scopio Magazine Architecture, Art and Image Journal recommends that Authors publish their articles and/ or visual essays on their personal websites, as well as in institutional repositories (provided they mention its first publication in scopio Magazine Architecture, Art and Image Journal by U.PORTO PRESS / scopio Editions, as a way to foster the circulation and exchange of knowledge as widely as possible, in the spirit of the open access movement.
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The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Ethical Guidelines
scopio Magazine is committed to ensuring the highest standards of ethics in publication and quality of articles. Once your paper has been approved by the editor(s), it will then be double blind peer reviewed by expert referees.
Conformance to principles of publication ethics is expected of all parties involved in the act of publishing. Editors, Authors and Reviewers are required, in particular, to abide by the following standards (based on the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE).
Editors: Based on the review report of the referees, the editor can accept, reject, or request modifications to the manuscript. The editor must ensure that each manuscript is evaluated solely on the basis of academic merit and that information regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors is not disclosed to anyone other than the reviewers and other editorial advisers, as appropriate. The editor must not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the author. Editors must take reasonable responsive measures when ethical complaints are presented concerning a submitted or published manuscript.
Authors: Authors should present an accurate account of their original research as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original works and that any work of others authors, or sources have been appropriately credited and referenced. Plagiarism in all its forms is unacceptable: scopio Magazine uses the software “Turnitin” for its detection. Authors should not submit the same manuscript simultaneously to more than one publication at a time. The corresponding author should ensure that there is a full consensus of all co-authors in approving the final version of the paper and its submission for publication.
Reviewers: Information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors should be kept confidential. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must not be used for personal advantage. If the selected referee feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript, he should excuse himself from the review process. If the reviewer feels he does not meet the conditions to complete the review of the manuscript within the stipulated time, this information must be communicated to the editor immediately. Reviews should be done objectively and observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have any conflicts of interest.
Plagiarism
We use the services of Crossref Similarity Check and iThenticate to scan all the submissions received, before these are sent to the Reviewers. Sophia reserves itself the right to refuse all the articles that after the scan reveal an inadequate percentage of similarity.
