About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Labour & Law Issues is a digital journal that deals with labour law, employment and industrial relations in the context of juridical and social sciences.

LLI intends to start a debate on labour law values and rules and on hybridizations passing through them. Preferring a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis, LLI provides an open space to reflect on new work identities and social relations drawing by contemporary productive dynamics.

The journal refers to a scientific and academic readership.

Through dialogue between social - political sciences and humanities, the journals aims to contribute to the re-thinking of legal categories of employment relationship, collective systems and industrial relations.

LLI is rated “Class A” by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) for the academic fields of area 12 (law studies).

Peer Review Process

Acceptance of articles for publication is subject to a double blind peer review. The two external and anonymous referees are chosen on the basis of their specific competences and research fields. In case of disagreement between reviewers, the contribute will be submitted to the judgment of a third anonymous referee. By submitting an article, the author implicitly accepts the double blind peer review process.

The Editorial Board will give a judgment both in case of approval or non-approval of the article, within a months from the date of submission.

As part of the initial quality assessment, each article will undergo plagiarism detection through iThenticate.

Publication Frequency

LLI is published twice a year. The issues are published on July and December.

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 without restrictions.

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

Labour & Law Issues 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 to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

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.

Indexing and abstracting

The Journal is referenced in the following databases:

  • ACNP – Catalogo Nazionale dei Periodici
  • BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
  • DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
  • DoGi – Dottrina Giuridica, abstract di articoli giuridici italiani
  • ERIH PLUS – European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
  • EZB – Electronic Journals Library, University of Regensburg
  • Il Foro Italiano – Banche dati
  • Google Scholar – Academic search engine
  • Jisc Library Hub Discover
  • JournalTOCs – International aggregator of scientific articles TOCs
  • Latindex – Online Regional Information System for Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal
  • Mir@bel – (Re)cueillir les savoirs
  • Open Policy Finder – Open Access policies database
  • ROAD – Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
  • Ulrichsweb – Global Serials Directory
  • Worldcat – The world’s largest library catalog
  • ZDB - Zeitschriftendatenbank – German Union Catalogue of Serials

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche – DSG
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

via Zamboni 27/29
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

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