Focus and Scope
Electronic scientific magazine Mediamusic is a scholarly e-journal of music and sound in electronic mass media, film, Internet, and multimedia. And also on any problems of sound arts presented by multimedia art criticism, multimedia musicology or sound engineering, multimedia cultural studies or pedagogy. The e-journal publishes scientific reviews and articles on audiovisual theory, history and practice, in the fields of musicology, art criticism, cultural studies, pedagogy, etc.
Section Policies
Peer Review Process
All scientific publications are reviewed:
- All materials are reviewed and may be rejected by Editorial board or returned to the contributors for revision. Reviewing is confidential (single blind review). The peer review is made in electronic form.
- The contributor is entitled to provide an external peer review on submitted materials.
- Peer reviews are stored for 5 years.
- Materials of the Editorial council's members and materials for unified Info page are not reviewed.
- The reviewer is selected from the Editorial board's members or invited by the editorial team from outside. The reviewer is a recognized expert on the subject of peer-reviewed materials and has publications on this and related topics during the last 3 years.
- Аn electronic copy of the peer review (without the name of the reviewer) or a reasoned refusal in the publication is sent to the author upon request.
- If prompted, electronic copies of the reviews can be sent to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation.
- Term of consideration of submitted materials does not exceed 9 months.
- The final decision on publication is taken by Editor in Chief and Editorial council.
- Managing Editor informs the authors about the decision.
- Articles are published only after the contributors will make all the necessary changes proposed by the editorial team. Attention! Articles are published in the html-version.
- Gonorars to the authors are not paid, fees for reviewing and editing are not charged.
- In the case of publication, the authors guarantee the transfer of a proprietary copyright on their materials (non-exclusive license), and the authors pay for publishing services: technical support of materials (html-layout, xml-files production, CD production, archiving and including materials in the science-metric databases, scientific libraries and into Informregister), legal support of multimedia materials.*
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Open Access Policy
Open and free access.
Publication Ethics
# Author's duties
- to indicate the references to literature
- to indicate the source of funding
- to provide only the correct information
- to be responsible for the providing information
- to ensure that no plagiarism and fraudulent data
- to provide material for the peer review
- to participate in the editing process
- to provide the retractions or corrections of mistakes
- all authors must significantly
- contribute to the research
# Reviewer's duties
- to be objective in their judgments
- to have no conflict of interest in relation to the authors, researches and funding
- to verify the borrowing and citations
- to check materials for the plagiarism
- to check the accuracy of references
- to consider the material confidentially
# Editor's duties
- to have the responsibility for accepting/rejecting an article or review
- to have no conflict of interest in relation to researches
- to promote the publication of correction or retraction
- to conform to the intellectual and ethical standards
- to appoint the reviewers and preserve their anonymity
- to conrol the publication ethics (see COPE)
# Publisher's duties
- to publish approved materials
- to conclude the licensing agreements with authors
- to archive published materials
- to distribute information on publications in the science-metric databases
- to provide a legal support for multimedia materials
- to prevent the prevalence of business over science
- to advertise the magazine