About the Journal
Focus and Scope
USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics is the first Italian academic journal entirely dedicated to the study of U.S. history and politics. It is published annually by an editorial board of early-career and established scholars based in Italy and across Europe. Founded with the support of CISPEA (Inter-university Consortium for the Study of Euro-American History and Politics, https://www.cispea.it/) and the U.S. Embassy in Rome, the journal sets out to offer the occasion particularly to postgraduates and early career Italian and international scholars to publish innovative and ground-breaking academic research that investigates any aspects of U.S. history and politics: social, economic and intellectual developments, relations of gender, race and class, foreign policy, international relations, history of policies and institutions. The journal pays particular attention to recent historiographical trends, in particular global, transatlantic and Atlantic history, and to multidisciplinary approaches which successfully intermingle history with social and political sciences. USAbroad publishes in English. A double-blind peer-reviewed journal, USAbroad’s aim is to select and publish exclusively independent and top-quality scientific production.
By publishing world-leading research, USAbroad sets out to favor the professionalization and growth of a new generation of Italian scholars of American history and politics while at the same time opening opportunities to develop a fruitful platform for academic and scientific exchanges with early-career and established scholars of U.S. History based in Europe and United States.
Section Policy
Essays
USAbroad issues a call for essays once a year in December. Submissions are due in April.
Articles
USAbroad welcomes also article proposals outsides the thematic annual call for essays.
Bringing the History Back In
This column sets out to offer a space where scholars have the chance to publish broad and comprehensive articles that aim to give useful and original interpretations of the present from the perspective of the professional historian. We see this space as an open and an intergenerational forum, where senior historians have the opportunity to share their historical analyses in a publication edited by and aimed at early career researchers.
Unless explictly stated, the essays in this section are not peer reviewed.
Peer Review Process
All research essays published in USAbroad have undergone a rigorous peer-review process, involving a first evaluation from the Editorial Board and the Scientific Committee. This latter, composed by leading scholars and experts in different fields related to U.S. history and politics, will assure the compliance with the maximum standards of scientific quality. After the first screening from the Editorial Board and the Scientific Committee, selected essays will undergo a double-blind peer review process with external reviewers. This means that the reviewers and the authors don’t know each other’s identity. To facilitate this, the authors need to ensure that manuscripts submitted on the USAbroad platform are prepared in a way that does not reveal their identity. Reviewers are chosen on the base of their expertise and knowledge on the selected paper topics.
As part of the initial quality assessment, each article will undergo plagiarism detection through iThenticate.
Publication Frequency
USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics is an annual journal.
Indexing and Abstracting
The Journal is indexed in the following databases and search engines:
- ACNP – Italian Catalogue of Serials
- BASE – Bielefield Academic Search Engine
- DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
- ERIH PLUS – European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
- EZB – Electronic Journals Library, University of Regensburg
- Google Scholar – Academic search engine
- JournalTOCs – International aggregator of scientific articles TOCs
- Mir@bel – (Re)cueillir les savoirs
- ROAD – Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
- Open Policy Finder – Open Access policies database
- Ulrichsweb – Global Serials Directory
- Worldcat – The world’s largest library catalog
- ZDB - Zeitschriftendatenbank – German Union Catalogue of Serials
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, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.
Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.
The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.
Publication Fees
The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.
Ethics
USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics 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
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication
Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)
Ownership
Department of Political and Social Sciences – SPS
Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
Via Zamboni, 32
40126 - Bologna (Italy)
Inter-university Consortium for the Study of Euro-American History and Politics (CISPEA)
