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.

Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, LLI provides an open space for reflection on the evolving nature of work and the emerging patterns of social interaction that are being shaped by current production dynamics.

The journal is intended for an academic and scholarly readership, as well as legal professionals.

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts are subject to peer review by two anonymous referees who are external to the journal’s editorial bodies. These referees are selected by the Scientific Committee on the basis of their specific expertise. If the referees disagree, the manuscript will be submitted to a third anonymous referee for a final decision. Submitting a manuscript implies acceptance of the double-blind peer review process by the author.

The Editorial Board will communicate the reviewers’ decision 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

The journal has an open-access policy for all content, based on the belief that free access to research promotes greater knowledge exchange.

By submitting their work for publication, authors agree to its release under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This allows contributions to be downloaded, reused, reprinted, modified, distributed and/or copied. All works must be correctly attributed to their authors.

Authors retain their copyright without restriction and may also freely distribute preprint and postprint versions of their work.

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 must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

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)