Política Editorial
Focus and Scope
The name ARA, which means Time in the Tupi-Guarani linguistic trunk, evokes entities essential to life, including light, dawn, birth and renewal. Associated with these indicators are others, rare today: lucidity, illumination, union between extremes and temporality, responsible for thinking about the Other in the key to humanity. Ara composes numerous words as a prefix, for names of people, streets, rivers and cities, which recall a submerged vein, that is, the dazzling role of various ethnicities in the formation of the Americas.
ARA is a magazine published since 2016 by the Grupo Museu Patrimônio (GMP) of the University of São Paulo (USP). This periodical covers the following areas of knowledge: Architecture and Urbanism, Museology, Arts, Design, History and Education.
ARA publishes, mainly, original and unpublished articles originating from research, aimed at researchers, students or professionals.
The journal adopts the Diamond Open Access (OA) model and is supported and certified by the Agency for Libraries and Digital Collections of the University of São Paulo (ABCD-USP). It receives submissions in thematic calls, with submission and publication schedules specified in each call, detailed below.
Published biannually, ARA publishes thematic issues composed of articles, textual essays, visual essays, critical reviews and interviews, in Portuguese. Submissions must follow ARA's standards, available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/revistaara /about/submissions
ARA Journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge.
ARA Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.
ISSN: 2525-8354
Peer Review Process
The ARA journal adopts a double blind review policy, in which at least two reviewers, whether members of the Editorial Board or ad hoc reviewers, evaluate the contributions without identifying the authors. In case of divergence in the evaluation, a third reviewer will be requested. After the analysis, copies of the reviews will be sent to the authors, together with instructions for modifications, when necessary.
There will be a preliminary work called “desk-rejection”, through which the submitted article will be evaluated by the Associate Editors, according to the following criteria:
1. The submission must be original, including the absence of self-plagiarism. ARA uses iThenticate, a service provided by CrossRef, to identify similarity of texts in previously published scientific documents. More information can be obtained at: https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check;
2. The contribution must present a critical reflection, clearly related to the central theme of the issue. The following must be explicitly stated: objectives, methodology, theoretical, design and/or artistic references, concepts, processes and results obtained. References (bibliographic, audiovisual, design, artistic, etc.) must comply with ABNT NBR 10520 and NBR 6023 standards and be included at the end of the text;
3. The submission must comply with the formatting, page limit, and anonymity in the body of the article and in the file, indicated in the submission guidelines (https://revistas.usp.br/revistaara/about/submissions).;
4. Authors are expected to proofread the article before submission, and to use the template indicated by the journal;
5. Submissions will only be accepted in response to thematic calls. Papers that do not comply with the journal's standards will be returned to the authors. A maximum period of 5 (five) days will be granted for the authors to format the submission in accordance with the grammatical, editorial and bibliographical standards, and a new submission will be accepted - if corrected. If the whole does not comply with these unifying factors, with regret, it will be returned to the person who addressed it.
If the submission does not meet the criteria mentioned above, the Associate Editors may decide to reject it, without forwarding it to reviewers.
The information and concepts expressed in the texts are the sole responsibility of the authors. The final decision, however, rests with the editors.
The possible results of the submissions are: approval, approval with modifications and rejection.
Open Access Policy
This journal offers immediate open access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge.
Privacy Policy
The names and addresses provided in this journal will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.
Author Fee Exemption Policy
ARA does not charge any fees for the submission and processing of articles.
