Journal Policies

 

Aims and Scope   

Mabatim is a peer-reviewed academic annual published in Hebrew by the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

The journal is included in the list of journals recognized by the Council for Higher Education’s Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC).

Published in an online open-access format, the journal provides a platform for the publication of original scholarly articles in the fields of art and visual culture, spanning all periods, subjects, and media.

In addition, the journal includes sections devoted to exhibition reviews and reviews of scholarly books.

The primary language of publication is Hebrew. All articles include abstracts in both Hebrew and English.

 For further information, please write to mabatim.art@gmail.com

Open access

This journal provides immediate open access to its content.

By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

There are no article processing charges, submission fees, or any other costs required of authors to submit articles to or publish articles in this journal.

 This journal publishes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0):https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction, and adaptation in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal a non-exclusive right to publish the work under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

Copyright notice

The article is an original work, created solely by the author, and has not been previously published, in whole or in part, in any journal, book, or other publication, whether in print or online, in an academic or any other context.

The article is not under review, consideration, or submission to any other journal or publisher.

Copyright in the article is held by the author.

The article does not contain obscene, defamatory, libelous, or otherwise unlawful material, nor does it infringe upon privacy rights, and to the best of the author’s knowledge does not violate any applicable law.

Publication of the article does not constitute an offense or violation of any law and does not infringe upon the rights of any third party, including intellectual property rights and copyrights of any individual or entity.

Full and exclusive responsibility for securing written permission to use any visual materials not owned by the author rests with the author.

The author bears full and exclusive responsibility for the content of the article. The journal Mabatim shall bear no responsibility in cases of plagiarism or any other infringement committed by the author.

The author undertakes to indemnify and hold the publisher harmless against any damages, losses, expenses, or payments (including legal costs and attorneys’ fees) arising from any claim, demand, or legal proceeding related to the content of the article.

The author retains full copyright in the article. No transfer of copyright is required for publication. Any future transfer of copyright, if agreed upon, must be executed in writing between the author and the journal Mabatim.

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal a non-exclusive right to publish the work under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

Peer review

To provide an expert, fair, and unbiased evaluation of the article’s strengths and weaknesses.

Guiding questions for reviewers:

●     Does the article offer an original contribution to the field?

●     Is the argument persuasive?

●     Does the author make appropriate use of up-to-date scholarly literature?

●     Does the article make a meaningful contribution to research in the field?

●     What are the article’s main strengths and weaknesses?

●     Is the article well written (clear, coherent, and fluent writing)?

●     Should the article be published? If revisions are required, please specify them.

●     Should the article be rejected? If so, please explain the main shortcomings of the submission.

Publication frequency

Mabatim journal is published once per year.

Author Fees

The journal does not charge authors any article processing charges (APCs) or submission fees.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Mabatim is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics. The journal follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Authors must ensure that their work is original, not under consideration elsewhere, and that all sources and materials (including images) are properly cited and used with permission. All authors must approve the submission and disclose any conflicts of interest.

Editors evaluate submissions based on academic merit and are responsible for ensuring a fair, unbiased, and confidential peer review process.

Reviewers are expected to provide objective and constructive evaluations, maintain confidentiality, and disclose any conflicts of interest.

The journal does not tolerate plagiarism or unethical research practices. In cases of suspected misconduct, appropriate action will be taken in accordance with COPE guidelines, including rejection, correction, or retraction of published articles.

Archiving and preservation policy

The journal participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PN), which provides long-term digital preservation and secure archiving of published content.