Boletín del Museo del Prado

General information

ISSN: 0210-8143
eISSN: 2952-0630

Focus and scope

The Boletín del Museo del Prado is a scholarly magazine published annually and aimed at the academic community and the interested public. Since 1980 it has published original articles by members of the museum’s staff as well as external authors from both Spain and elsewhere.

The magazine’s contents address a wide range of topics linked to the Museum’s collections, which date from Antiquity to the 20^th century, explore aspects inherent to museology, the material nature and preservation of works of art, and analyse aspects of art theory and visual culture. The publication also features essays on the history of the Museo del Prado and the evolution of its building and museography.

The Boletín del Museo del Prado is published in both print format and electronically in PDF format.

Frequency

The Boletín del Museo del Prado is an annual scholarly magazine which is published in the month of November.

Sections of the Boletín

Guest text

Starting with the 2024 issue, the Boletín will include a new section consisting of an essay or critical text that will address current relevant themes or present the state of different issues in the field of art history and museums. These texts will be written by prominent professionals in the subject at the request of the Editor of the Boletín and will not be subject to double-blind peer review.

Articles

This section includes unpublished and original scholarly articles. These texts must not have been submitted, even partially, for approval by another publication, neither in Spanish nor in any other foreign language. Articles will be submitted for double-blind peer review.

Evaluation policy

Since 2015 (volume XXXIII) the Boletín has used the procedure of double-blind peer review.

The editorial team reserves the right to reject proposals received without undertaking an external evaluation if they consider that they do not meet the standards of quality, content and relevance for the scholarly aims of the Boletín, as well as the presentation and format requirements set out in the Instructions for Authors and in the Style Sheet.

The evaluation method used is double-blind peer review, which maintains the anonymity of both the author and the reviewers. The originals are submitted to the external opinion of two specialists in the field. If the reports do not concur another evaluation will be requested from a third specialist. Following the opinion the Editorial Board will decide whether or not to publish the article, notifying the author, and will decide which issue of the Boletín the accepted article will appear in.

Articles will include the dates of arrival and acceptance of the texts.

A list of the external evaluators of the Boletín is published every 5 years.

Authors who wish to publish in the Boletín can find out here about the Instructions for presenting texts, the Style Sheet (PDF file) and the Guide to good practices of the Boletín (PDF file).

Costs of publishing

The Boletín del Museo del Prado is published thanks to sponsorship from the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado.

Publication of articles in the Boletín del Museo del Prado does not involve any cost to authors, who are not liable for any expenses derived from the publication of their article, such as editorial costs, page counts, etc.

Authors of the texts are not liable for any costs related to obtaining images. The Boletín del Museo del Prado will be responsible for obtaining high-resolution images and the management of their reproduction rights.

Open access policy

The Boletín del Museo del Prado promotes open access to researchers to facilitate knowledge exchange, the visibility of authors and their works, and their rapid citation.

In accordance with the principles of the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), all articles in the Boletín are available free of charge and immediately in PDF format on this web page (back issues) from the moment of publication and without restrictions. This allows all interested researchers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, and use them for any other legal purpose.

In addition, the Boletín del Museo del Prado is also published in print format and is available for purchase from the Prado’s shop or from www.tiendaprado.com.

Authorship identification

The Boletín del Museo del Prado uses the ORCID® persistent digital identifier as an authorship normalization system.

Self-archiving and research data deposit policy

To encourage productive exchanges and a better and more effective citation of the published texts, the Boletín del Museo del Prado permits self-archiving in the author's institutional repository, on their personal website and in other FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) repositories. It also facilitates the dissemination of their content on academic networks of interest. To ensure access to the document the full source must be provided and the full URL of the article must be added.

Interoperability

The website of the Boletín allows the RDF (Resource Description Framework) of any article to be downloaded.

The RDF is one of the most recommended format families (in the FAIR principles, for example) for providing interoperability and the publication and exchange of metadata and open data.

Privacy statement

The Boletín del Museo del Prado will only use the names, email addresses and other data provided for the purposes declared by it, and this data will not be available for any other purpose or person. In compliance with Law 3/2018, of December 5, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights, you are informed that the personal data provided will be added to (or updated on) the database of the Museo Nacional del Prado. The purpose of data processing is that of the purposes declared by this magazine. You have the right to access, rectify, cancel or oppose in the terms set out in the Law, a right you can exercise by writing to the Delegate for Data Protection of the Museo Nacional del Prado, by email: dpd@museodelprado.es; or to the following postal address:

Delegado Protección de Datos Museo Nacional del Prado. C/ Ruiz de Alarcón 23. 28014 Madrid.

Copyright and licenses

Both the magazine and the articles are published under the Creative Commons CC BY Attribution 4.0 International license, which can be consulted at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/