About the Journal

 

Aims and scope

Bulletin of Regional Natural History (BORNH), formerly Bollettino della Società dei Naturalisti in Napoli, is an online peer reviewed open access journal from Società dei Naturalisti in Napoli that promotes in-depth studies dealing with environmental, natural and earth sciences at local and regional scale.

 

BORNH publishes research articles, review articles, commentaries, commented and reasoned checklists, technical papers on methodological innovations or improvements, as well as on the practical application of these resources towards the development of effective conservation policy and practice. BORNH publishes studies in all branches of Natural Sciences dealing with biological diversity, ecology and evolution of ecosystems: zoology, geology, mineralogy, ecology, palaeontology, botany, systematics and phylogenetics, ecology and ethology, developmental biology, conservation biology, parasitology, geomorphology, chemistry, naturalistic museology. Contributions of history and philosophy of natural sciences are also welcome.

 

Peer Review process

Submitted manuscripts are preliminarily evaluated by the Editor in Chief, who checks that they are adhering to the scope of the journal and representing a major contribution deserving publication in an international journal, and by the Assistant Editor, who checks that they include all that is required from the journal’s Author Guidelines.  If the submitted manuscript passes these steps, it will be assigned by the Editor in-Chief to the Associate Editor who sends the submitted ms to two reviewers he or she believes would be appropriate. The peer review process is double-blind and may take more than one round, if necessary, before final acceptance of the manuscript. The Editorial Office reserves the right to make editorial changes. Submitted manuscript, revised version of manuscript, proofs and other correspondence concerning editorial matters should be addressed to the Editorial Office (bornh@societanaturalistinapoli.it, and cc: fabio.guarino@unina.it)

 

Publication Frequency

This journal is published every four months. 

 

Consent and Privacy Policy

This journal provides open access to its content, believing that making research freely available to the public improves knowledge exchange globally. 

It publishes its contents with open access, to ensure the widest possible dissemination and circulation of historical knowledge examined by the scientific community. BORNH does not charge for the submission and / or peer review of articles (APCs). All published material is licensed under the "Creative Commons - Attribution" license (CC-BY 4.0). With the CC-BY license, the authors maintain the copyright on their contributions, however guaranteeing anyone the possibility to download, reuse, reprint and distribute the materials published by BORNH, upon condition that both author and Journal's title are duly cited. Publishing rights are attributed to the author/s.

 

CC-BY license

The journal uses the CC-BY license which allows third parties to reproduce, distribute, communicate, and publicly exhibit, represent, perform, act and modify this work, as long as the author and the journal are cited.

 

Data protection

This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here. Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.

 

Contributors

BORNH is published by the University Center for Libraries on the servers of the University Center for Information Systems of the University of Naples Federico II.