Open Access Policy

The “Fundamental Rights” journal adopts an open access policy, and therefore it – and the contributions contained therein – will be freely accessible from the journal’s website, with the possibility of downloading the various articles published from time to time. Consequently, the authors waive any financial claims or editorial rights, thus providing the consequent release, and guaranteeing the veracity of the data presented in the paper and the objectivity of the contents contained therein, reporting data and references accurately. In particular, the author must clearly and precisely indicate the sources and bibliographic references mentioned in their contribution. In the case of publication of images, tables, graphs, or other contributions already published, it is the author’s obligation to obtain prior authorization for their use. Any fraudulent, intentionally omitted, or inaccurate statements constitute behavior contrary to the journal’s code of ethics and, consequently, unacceptable.

Publication Procedure

By submitting their publication proposal, the author accepts the evaluation procedure adopted by the journal, which normally consists of “double-blind peer review.” The evaluation procedure is bound by the laws in force regarding defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism, as well as the editorial, policy, and privacy regulations of the Journal’s Publisher, which are understood here as referred to, repeated, and transcribed. By submitting the publication proposal, the authors implicitly declare that they have read, understood, and approved both these regulations and the journal’s editorial guidelines.

Authorship of the Work and Originality

Both the author and the co-authors of the work must be correctly indicated. Co-authors are considered, in particular, all those who have made a concrete and relevant contribution for the purposes of conceiving and completing the research – or some of its phases – underlying the contribution. In the case of contributions written by multiple authors, the author who submits the publication proposal must obligatorily indicate precisely the name of all the co-authors, as well as obtain from them the approval of the final version of the contribution and their consent to publication.

The contributions submitted to the “Fundamental Rights” journal must be unpublished and respect the requirement of originality. The authors, therefore, must guarantee that their contribution is original and unpublished, also undertaking not to propose the same contribution to more than one journal simultaneously.

Conflict of Interest

Authors must indicate all sources of financial support underlying the research project on which their contribution is based, as well as any financial or general conflicts of interest that could influence the outcomes or interpretations attributable to their contribution.

Erratums

In the event that an author should discover particularly relevant errors or inaccuracies within their published contribution, they are obliged to communicate this to the editorial board promptly in order to coordinate the procedure for the withdrawal and correction of the text.

Information on the Processing of Personal Data

Pursuant to Reg. (EC) 27/04/2016, n. 2016/679/EU “Regulation of the European Parliament on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data” and, in particular, Articles 13 and 32, it is declared that the Journal collects the personal data of Authors for the sole purposes of publishing articles and essays; it does not disclose the data thus collected to third parties nor does it carry out so-called data “profiling” activities. The data collected consists exclusively of the name and email address provided with the start of the collaboration for the publication of the article; the data controller and data processor is the Ownership of the Journal and, for it, the Steering Committee pro tempore (the composition of which is indicated on the website www.fundamentalrights.it); the rights of the data subject collected by the Journal can be exercised by contacting the same by email, at the address direzione@fundamentalrights.it and others present on the website www.fundamentalrights.it; the Journal is not legally obliged to keep the data collected and, at the request of the interested party, will rectify, modify, and delete them; the deletion of the data will make it impossible to continue receiving information on the activities and publications of the Journal; the data will be kept indefinitely, until the termination of the Journal’s activities, unless a deletion request is proposed by the interested party; the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the national supervisory authority which, for the Italian Republic, is the Guarantor for the protection of personal data (the authority’s website is https://www.garanteprivacy.it); for any further need or clarification regarding this information and/or the processing of personal data and the consequent exercise of the related rights, it is possible to contact the email address direzione@fundamentalrights.it.