Article Submission and Review Process for Umění/Art

All submissions to Umění/Art, with the exception of contributions to the “Reviews” section, undergo a multi-stage evaluation process prior to acceptance for publication.

The first stage involves an editorial review, during which the editorial team assesses whether the manuscript aligns with the thematic scope of the journal and meets the basic formal and substantive criteria for potential publications.

In the second stage, the editorial board evaluates the overall scholarly and formal quality of the submission and recommends potential peer reviewers.

The third and most important stage is a double-blind peer review process.

At any stage in proceedings, the manuscript may be returned to the author for revision or may be rejected outright. The editorial team informs the author of the outcome of the evaluation process.

Peer Review

Manuscripts submitted for publication are reviewed by at least two independent experts in the field covered in the submission. Reviewers must not be in a conflict of interest with the authors (see the journal’s Publication Ethics for details).

Reviewers are selected exclusively by the editorial team based on recommendations from the editorial board. The peer review process is conducted under conditions of mutual anonymity. Peer reviews are internal documents of the editorial staff and are submitted solely to an authorised representative of the editorial team.

Reviewers must not distribute the submitted manuscript, share it with third parties, or use the information it contains for personal or other purposes.

A peer review form is available from the editorial office to facilitate preparation of the review. The standard timeframe for completing a review is two to four weeks.

The review should clearly offer both general and specific comments on the manuscript, including references to relevant scholarly literature that may be missing. The review must explicitly state whether the manuscript is recommend for publications and, if so, under what conditions.

Review outcomes

The editorial team communicates the results of the peer review to the author.

The author is required to respond to reviewers’ comments and revise the manuscript accordingly, following the editorial team’s guidance.

If an author has specific and substantiated reasons for not accepting certain reviewer comments, they must inform the editorial team, which will decide on how to proceed.

If an author has doubts regarding the legitimacy of the entire peer review process, they may submit a written response to the editor-in-chief. The editor-in-chief will share this response with the reviewers and the editorial board. The editorial board will then decide on the course of action to be taken.

In the event of any such dispute, the decision of the editorial board is final.

Fees and Remuneration

No fees are charged for the submission, processing or publication of manuscripts.

Authors do not receive any remuneration for submitting or publishing contributions.

Securing licensing rights for images used in a manuscript, translations into a foreign language, and other requirements necessary for publication are handled in agreement with the editorial team. These responsibilities rest primarily with the author.

Open Access

Umění/Art is published under a Libre Open Access model. This model of scholarly communication ensures free, immediate and online access to academic articles for all users without restriction. It allows for unrestricted reading, downloading, copying, sharing, storing, printing, searching and hyperlinking, in accordance with the terms of the CreativeCommons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivates).
The CC BY-NC-ND 4.0/International license is a publicly available legal framework that defines the permitted scope of use of a Work.
Under this licence, any individual may:

• Share – reproduce and distribute the Work in any medium or format,
• Include the Work in a collective publication (e.g. as part of a compendium),

provided the following conditions are met:

• Attribution – the original work must be properly cited, including the title, author, source (Umění/Art), and the licence used (with a link to the full text of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence conditions),
• NonCommercial use only – the work may not be used for commercial purposes,
• NoDerivatives – any edited, supplemented or otherwise modified version of the Work may not be redistributed.

The full text of the licence terms is available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs.

Licence Terms in Umění/Art

By submitting a contribution (hereinafter the “Work”) to the editorial team of Umění/Art, the author grants a licence to the publisher, the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (hereinafter the “Publisher”), under the following conditions, which fully comply with Czech legislation: Act 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code; and Act 121/2000 Coll., the Copyright Act):

1. The author declares that the Work is original, has not been previously published and has not been submitted elsewhere for publication, with the exception of academic social networks serving the scholarly community (e.g. ResearchGate, Academia.edu).
2. The author confirms that they are the original author of the Work and are authorised to submit it to the editorial team of Umění/Art.
3. In the case of co-authored Works, the submitting author declares that they have informed the co-authors of the licensing terms and are authorised to submit the Work on their behalf.
4. In the case of an employee-created Work, the author confirms they have informed their employer of the licensing terms and are authorised to submit the Work to Umění/Art.
5. The author agrees that if the Work is accepted for publication in Umění/Art, it will be disseminated under the terms of CreativeCommons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International. The full text of the licence is available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs.
6. The author declares that granting this licence does not infringe upon the rights of third parties, including – but not limited to – those of employers, previous publishers, co-authors and other rights holders. Should this declaration prove untrue, the author accepts full responsibility for any resulting damages.
7. The author grants the Publisher a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use the Work by all known means (particularly reproduction, dissemination and public communication) for the full duration of the proprietary rights.
8. The author is permitted to self-archive the Publisher’s postprint immediately via repositories, personal websites, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc. Authors must also provide a link to the published version of the Work, including its DOI.
9. The author agrees that, upon publication, the Work will be printed in Umění/Art and simultaneously made available to the public free of charge in electronic form ia the Kramerius Digital Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences or the Publisher’s digital journal archive.
10. The author consents to the inclusion of the Work in scholarly, bibliographic and citation databases, digital libraries and information systems (e.g. CEEOL, JSTOR), in which the journal may be indexed in the future. However, the Publisher is not obliged to use this permission to include the Work in databases and information systems.

Publication Ethics

The publication ethics of the journal Umění/Art abide by international standards for editors and authors and the recommended best practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for editors, authors, reviewers and editorial board members. The aim of the journal’s publication ethics is to prevent unlawful and unethical practices at every stage of the publication process.

Editorial Responsibilities

The editorial team

• is responsible for the overall content of the journal, its scholarly orientation and the quality of published contributions;
• seeks to prevent any conflicts of interests between authors and reviewers and guarantees mutual anonymity for all parties involved in the peer review process;
• edits submitted texts for language and style and may propose substantive revisions or additions, while respecting the author’s original voice and literary style, provided these remain within the conventions of academic writing;
• maintains objectivity and impartiality, treats all submitted contributions as confidential material, and does not disclose them to any third parties except reviewers and editorial board members;
• prepares documentation for meetings of the editorial board, submits received manuscripts and proposals for special issues for review, and informs the board about any appeals made by authors in response to peer review or other disputed matters;
• will not accept for editorial processing any manuscript suspected of lacking originality, is the result of plagiarism, or otherwise violates the journal’s publication ethics in a significant way.

Authors’ Responsibilities

The authors

• guarantee that the manuscript has not been simultaneously submitted to another journal and that the same or substantially similar text has not been previously published elsewhere. They also guarantee that the submission is not the result of plagiarism or redundancy (i.e. does not unnecessarily repeat sections of their previously published work);
• hold copyright on the submitted text;
• must not remain anonymous to the editorial team and are required to submit their contact information along with the manuscript to enable ongoing communication. Authors are obliged to respond to reviewers’ comments and implement the proposed revisions If an author considers a reviewer’s recommendation to be unjustified, they have the right to address a reasoned response to the editor-in-chief, who will forward the author’s position to the reviewers and the editorial board;
• must provide complete source references for each image included in the submission;
• are responsible for securing image reproduction rights or for arranging sufficiently in advance with the editorial team to obtain such rights;
• are required to indicate institutional affiliation as well as any grants or other forms of support that contributed to the creation of the article.

Only individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the research may be listed as co-authors. Co-authorship is defined by meeting one or both of the following criteria:

• significant involvement in the conceptualisation of the article, data acquisition or data analysis and interpretation;
• participation in the drafting of the article or in its critical revision (intellectual contribution).

Activities that do not qualify for co-authorship include fundraising, data collection, general supervision of the research team, or the application of a so-called gift or honorary authorship.

Reviewers’ Responsibilities

Reviewers must maintain objectivity and evaluate manuscripts fairly and impartially. Their comments and assessments must be supported by clear and reasoned arguments. If a reviewer finds themselves in a conflict of interest, they are obliged to notify the editorial team promptly and withdraw from the review process. A conflict of interests includes, but is not limited to:

• close professional, institutional or personal ties to the author or any member of the authorial team (e.g. employment at the same institution);
• collaboration on the same project within recent years;
• professional financial or personal benefits that the reviewer may derive from either the acceptance or rejection of the submission.

Reviewers

• must inform the editorial team if they suspect the submitted text constitutes plagiarism or involves other unethical publishing practices;
• are expected to follow the Umění/Art editorial guidelines, including compliance with deadlines;
• must treat all reviewed submissions as confidential – texts and accompanying materials may not be shared with third parties or used for personal or other purposes;
• in addition to specific and general comments, must state clearly whether and under what conditions they recommend the evaluated text for publication.