About the Journal

Focus and Scope

State Archives of Assyria Bulletin publishes articles dealing with the Neo-Assyrian Empire (ca. 1000–612 BC) from the philological, archaeological, historical, religious, cultural, economic, administrative, ideological, and communicative points of view, concerning Assyria and the surrounding Near Eastern states. It also accepts scientific articles related to the immediately preceding and following periods (the Middle Assyrian age and the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Persian empires), with special attention to the cultural and religious world of the Bible, and to the contacts of all kinds with the Aegean and Greek world of the first half of the first millennium BC.

Section Policies

The articles section publishes articles of various kinds (essays, notes, bibliographical information); the articles in this section are evaluated by the Editorial Board and subjected to double-blind refereeing by an external reviewer.

Peer review process

The articles in the articles section are subjected to double blind refereeing by at least one external reviewer after examination and favorable judgment by the Editorial Board.

Frequency of publication

Annual with the possibility of subdividing into two issues

Open access policy

State Archives of Assyria Bulletin (SAAB) is an open access journal. The users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles according to the Creative Commons License (CC-BY), in the belief that making research freely availa­ble to the public improves the exchange of knowledge globally. No charge is required from the authors for submitting proposals (Submission charges) nor for the review process or for publication (article processing charges). The Editorial Board reserves the right to accept a number of proposals that can be materially MONITORED and published within the indicated times.

Archiving

State Archives of Assyria Bulletin participates in LOCKSS

Code of Ethics and Anti-Plagiarism Measures

Code of Ethics for Publications

All articles published in the State Archives of Assyria Bulletin (SAAB) are peer-reviewed according to the methods indicated in the Code of Ethics for Publications developed by Cope: Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Authors, editors, and referees must know and share the following principles.

Anti-plagiarism measures

All articles submitted to State Archives of Assyria Bulletin (SAAB) are carefully checked for detecting any improper use of other scientific works through specific software, such as Compilatio. If plagiarism were detected, the procedure followed is that recommended in the guidelines developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (http://publicationethics.org/resources/ flowcharts). If, on the other hand, some reader would report plagiarism in an article, the Editorial Board:

  1. informs the reporter of the abuse about the immediate start of the procedure;
  2. verifies the degree of the actual coincidence of the article with the text or the texts that were allegedly plagiarized;
  3. informs all the members of the Editorial Board about the event in order to deliberate collectively the steps to be taken;
  4. communicates the evidence from the comparison with any pla­giarized text to the article's author and asks him to account for it.

In case of plagiarism of other texts, the Editorial Board:

  1. informs the author of the plagiarized contribution and the director of the journal and/or series in which it was published;
  2. publishes the official withdrawal of the published article;
  3. withdraws the article from the web;
  4. does not allow the plagiarist to publish any further publication in the journal.

Duties of the Editors

Decision on Publication

The members of the Editorial Board are responsible for deciding whether to publish the submitted articles The Editors may consult the referees for taking informed decisions.

Fairness

The members of the Editorial Board assess the articles submitted for publica­tion considering exclusively their content, without any discrimination against the authors as regards gender, sexual orientation, religion, race, ethnicity, citizenship, or political opinions.

Privacy

The members of the Editorial Board and the other members of the journal's staff pledge to circulate information about the submitted articles ONLY to the author, the referees, and the publisher.

Conflict of interest and circulation

The members of the Editorial Board pledge not to use data and information present in an article submitted for publication in their own publications without the author's written consent.

Duties of the Referees

Contribution to the decisions of the Editorial Board

Peer review is a procedure which helps the members of the Editorial Board to take informed decisions regarding the articles submitted, and allows tHE authors to improve their articles.

Respect of Deadlines

A referee must promptly communicate to the members of the Editorial Commiteee not to feel competent about the topics addressed in the article, or not to be able to carry out the assessment within schedule.

Privacy

Each article is entrusted for reading with the obligation of total confidentiality. Therefore, the article can be discussed with others only upon explicit authorization from the the members of the Editorial Board.

Objectivity

Peer review must be conducted objectively. Any personal judgment about the author is inappropriate. Referees are required to motivate their decisions adequately.

Indication of texts

Referees pledge to indicate precisely the bibliographic details of the most important works overlooked by the author. Referees must also report to the members of the Editorial Board any similarities or overlaps of the article with other works they know.

Conflict of interest and disclosure

All information and indications from referees during the peer review are con­fidential and cannot be used for personal purposes. Referees are required not to accept reading articles for which there is a conflict of interest due to prev­ious relationships of collaboration or competition with the author and/or with his/her institution.

Duties of the authors

Access and Data Storage

If the Editorial Board deems it appropriate, the authors of the articles are required to make available the sources and/or the data about which the research was based so that they are stored for a reasonable period after publication and can be made accessible to others for verification.

Originality and plagiarism

Authors must declare that they have composed an original work in all its parts and to have cited all the texts they have used.

Multiple, repetitive, and/or concurrent publications

The author should not publish articles presenting the same research results in more than one journal. A contemporaneous submission of the very same text to more than one journal is an ethically incorrect and unacceptable behavior.

Indication of sources

The author must always provide the correct indication of the sources and the articles mentioned in the article.

Authorship of the work

The authorship of the work must be correctly attributed, and all those who have contributed significantly to the conception, organization, implementa­tion, and re-elaboration of the research in the background of the article must be indicated as co-authors. If other people have participated significantly in some phases of the research, their contribution must be explicitly acknow­ledged. In the case of articles written by multiple authors, the author who sends the text to the journal must declare that he has correctly indicated the names of all the other co-authors and that he has obtained their approval of the final version of the article and their consent to publication.

Conflict of interest and disclosure

All authors must explicitly declare that no conflict of interest influenced the achieved results or the proposed interpretations. Authors must also indicate any body funding their research, and/or any project financing the article.

Errors in published articles

When an author identifies a significant error or inaccuracy in one of his articles, he must promptly inform the Editorial Board and provide the information for indicating the corrections at the bottom of the article.