Aims and Scope

Articles appearing in Artium Quaestiones, journal published by the Institute of Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University since 1979, concern modern and contemporary art as well as the art of earlier periods, including architecture.  Special attention is given to theoretical and methodological issues of art history and visual culture and particularly research on Central-Eastern Europe. Artium Quaestiones publishes original and advanced studies which pave new ways of scholary investigation and/or testify to a reception and critical application of the existing methodological perspectives to art of the region, foreign art and global artistic phenomena. The Editors of Artium Quaestiones invite submissions from both recognized, established scholars and young researchers of art and visual culture, Polish and international. In doing so we have the ambition to reach the widest possible international audiences of students and scholars i czynne uczestnictwo w akademickiej debacie. 

Recognizable feature of Artium Quaestiones are also critical reviews of most recent scholarship and, more importantly, translations of theoretical and analytical texts, including articles and book chapters by such authors as Rosalind Krauss, Hal Foster, Mieke Bal, William J. Thomas Mitchell, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Griselda Pollock, Georges Didi-Huberman, Louis Marin, Horst Bredekamp, Max Imdahl, Hans Belting, Bruno Latour or Geoffrey Batchen. In many cases they were the first translations of texts by these authors in Poland.

Artium Quaestiones welcomes articles written in English, German and Polish. 

Apart from being published in hard copies, the latest issues of our yearly (from no. 26, 2015) are also available electronically via PRESSto UAM Open Access platform.

Moreover, all full archive of Artium Quaestiones (since 1979) has been digitalized and is available for downloading at University of Heidelberg library website. 

Artium Quaestiones is listed on European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) and Index Copernicus International (ICI), The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH) database, Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). It is also accessible in open access at EBSCO database. 

In 2019 the journal received a two-year long grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education – Support for Academic Journals and in 2022 the follow-up grant – Development of Academic Journals.  Articles published in Artium Quaestiones receive 70 points (according to the Ministry’s list of academic journals).

Editorial and reviewing process:

All submissions (except for translations of the already published, recognized texts) are subject to double-blind peer rewove boy specialist in a given discipline or area or research, affiliated at institutions other than the authors of the texts. Before the submission is sent to external readers it undergoes evaluation by the editorial team and must be accepted. If the external reviews differ significantly (acceptance vs rejection) the text is sent to a third reader. 

Submissions  should be made electronically via email aq.redakcja@amu.edu.pl or via OJS on Pressto Platform.

Publication of articles in Artium Questiones is free of charge. 

The submission, reviewing and editorial process takes place in the following stages:

Submission 

1. Call for papers
Concerns thematic section only – announced in late summer/early autumn
Authors interested in publishing in other sections (Varia, Commentaries etc.) can submit their proposals throughout the year. However, they need to account for the fact that we publish once a year at the turn of November and December.
2. Submission of abstracts by prospective Authors via OJS system or sent by email to aq.redakcja@amu.edu.pl.
3. Selection of abstracts by the Editorial Board.
Authors of selected abstracts are notified within 2-3 weeks after the deadline about the Editorial Board’s decision and asked to submit a complete text within 2-3 months.
4. Submission of texts by selected Authors.
Only texts which meet the deadline specified by the Editorial Board will qualify for the stage of reviews.
5. Review of submitted texts by the Editorial Board.
The editors have the right to reject a submitted text without sending it to external reviewers if they decide the text does not come up to scholarly standards of the journal.

Peer-review and article acceptance

6. Double blind peer review evaluation process.
Anonymized articles are sent to reviewers who are normally given between 2-4 weeks for writing the review. Reviewers can accept, reject a text or accept it on the condition of introducing changes they indicate as necessary.
7. Returning reviewed texts and reviews to Authors (if necessary).
8. Correction of texts by Authors (if necessary).
9. Final acceptance of texts for publication (by reviewers and the editors). The decision about the final acceptance for print is usually made in spring. The Authors of texts qualified for publication are obliged to sign a publishing agreement provided by the Editors.
10. Editorial process.

Review Form

Authors need to comply with editorial standards and cooperate with proof-readers and editors. Their texts are returned for correction twice: after first correction and at proof stage.
Authors can expect their texts to be published towards the end of each calendar year (November-December)

Copyright Notice
The copyrights are regulated by author's statement and publication agreement prepared by Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Authors are responsible for the originality of texts published and regulating the coprights of accompanying visual materials, unless the materials come from the Editorial Team. The author retains unrestricted copyrights rights.

Anti-plagiarism measures
 To ensure the originality and high quality of published articles, the journal applies the latest procedures for evaluating them, and uses the Crossref Similarity Check anti-plagiarism system using iThenticate software. 
The system makes it possible to identify similarities in a text by comparing it with publications available on the Internet and indexed databases, and identifying the sources of passages. Works in which borrowings from other authors are found inappropriately cited or plagiarized will be rejected by the editors, and violations of either copyright or good scientific practice will be reported to the management of the author's employing institution.

Should plagiarism be found in a published paper, the Editorial Board will withdraw the text and post a notice to this effect on the journal's website and/or in the printed version.

Open Access Policy
The journal provides immediate, open access (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International) to all its content based on the principle that the research published under open access policy accelerates the spreading, impact and the development of scholarship and the exchange of knowledge. The editors encourage authors to include their published articles in open repositories under the condition that the link to the journal's site and DOI no. of the original publication is given.
The journal does not charge the authors any fees related to the process of publication.

Data Archiving
The PRESSto platform digitally preserves the content of this journal using the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), which provides digital long-term preservation of data and secured access to the content of the journal. The journal "Artium Qaestiones" complies with the I40C standards for open citations.