About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Pròdìgi (Digital Products) is a journal of the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna. It is devoted to the dissemination and critical valorisation of digital research outputs in the humanities. The journal has been established within the Italian Ministry of University and Research’s “Departments of Excellence” initiative (2023–2027; Law no. 232, 1 December 2016).

It publishes scholarly contributions, primarily data papers and data summaries. These contributions document and analyse digital objects, including non-traditional ones. They present humanities data in digital form and promote interdisciplinary methods and pedagogical practices.

Digital products include, but are not limited to:

  • Virtual exhibitions: digital spaces for presenting works, thematic paths, and cultural narratives;

  • Digital didactic projects: tools and initiatives for teaching, learning, and public engagement;

  • Software and applications: resources that support research and the enhancement of cultural heritage;

  • Digital editions: scholarly publications and textual resources in advanced digital formats;

  • Other categories include digital text corpora, catalogues of online resources, digitised collections, and web applications (e.g. thematic paths, research interfaces, data visualisation tools). Multimedia objects are also considered.

Pròdìgi is not only a venue for publication. It is also a site of critical inquiry into the role of digital technologies in academic and cultural practices. The journal treats these technologies as a space for innovation in research, teaching, and third mission activities. It welcomes contributions that connect these domains and highlight their shared potential. Pròdìgi functions as both a dynamic repository of digital scholarship and a laboratory for rethinking how knowledge is produced, taught, and shared.

Section Policies

The journal is organised into two sections: Data Papers and Data Summaries.

Data Paper

A data paper is a short scholarly article (maximum 5,000 words, excluding references). It includes the metadata of an online digital resource (identified by a persistent DOI), along with a description of its contents, research methodologies, and relevant bibliography.

Submissions to this section are subject to peer review.

Data Summary

A data summary is a bibliographic record. It includes only metadata, a brief description, and a bibliographic reference to an online resource for which the author is responsible.

Submissions to this section are not peer reviewed.

Responsibility for the formal accuracy of the data lies with the author and the editorial team.

Peer Review Process

Pròdìgi is a single-blind peer-reviewed journal. All submissions, whether received through open calls or by invitation, undergo an initial screening by at least one editor, who is a member of the Scientific Committee. If the submission is deemed suitable, it is sent to at least two reviewers from the journal’s reviewer pool for detailed evaluation. As part of the preliminary checks, all articles are screened for plagiarism using iThenticate.

Reviewers are selected by the Scientific Committee. Selection is based on several factors, including expertise, subject competence, recommendations from authors or editors, and prior reviewing activity. Reviewers include domain specialists with backgrounds in the humanities and/or interdisciplinary fields.

The journal adopts a single-blind peer review model. Authors do not know the identity of the reviewers, while reviewers are aware of the author’s identity.

The aim of the review process is to provide authors with an informed and reasoned assessment of their submission. Reviews should also offer constructive suggestions for improvement in view of publication.

First-time reviewers are contacted informally to confirm their availability. Acceptance of the invitation is completed by replying to the e-mail and including both the Journal Editor and the Journal Manager among the recipients.

Reviewers receive an e-mail containing the title and abstract of the submission, a link to the review platform, and the review deadline. If the reviewer does not yet have an account, they are asked to register and select “reviewer” as their role.

By accessing the link provided, reviewers must formally accept or decline the assignment. Upon acceptance, an automated confirmation e-mail is sent to the Editorial Board. The manuscript then becomes available for download and review.

Reviewers are expected to submit their report and complete the evaluation form within four weeks of accepting the assignment. PDF files may be uploaded to provide detailed comments.

For any queries, reviewers should contact the Journal Manager.

Publication Frequency

The journal is published annually on a rolling publication basis. Special issues may occasionally be released outside the regular publication schedule.

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.

Authors are welcome to post pre-submission versions, the original submitted version of the manuscript (preprint) and the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories.

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Ethics

Pròdìgi 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 with the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository and request a DOI to identify the digital resource described in the submitted article.

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

Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica – FICLIT
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Via Zamboni, 32
40126 - Bologna (Italy)