Journal History
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ALMANACK is an academic-scientific journal aimed at an audience of specialists in the humanities, particularly History. It is dedicated to publishing original articles linked to the multiple issues in the history of the formation of national states between the 18th and 19th centuries, and it is particularly interested in the Brazilian and Latin American processes. Since the 19th century, when it was exalted as the most advanced product and promoter of civilization, the State emerged as a privileged theme among those who took it upon themselves to tell the story of the new representative and constitutional regimes. The same was true for the nation that, with specific characteristics in the territories of colonial origin, appeared as fundamental in the reconstruction of the bonds of belonging of individuals to each other and of a common past. Not least, this period became known as the creation of modern nationalities and, in terms of constitutionalism, the emergence of individuals as citizens, the rule of law, the construction of rational bureaucracies, the public regulation of contracts, and the liberation of mechanisms of the market and of state controls. However, many of these issues had their roots in transformations that occurred at least a century earlier, when the Western world had experienced a crisis in its political, social, and cultural paradigms that was revealed in the conception that the heritage of the past - from then, identified with something ancient - it should be destroyed or, at the very least, reformulated. State, nation, as well as the political entity that was formed from the convergence of these two spheres have since been the object of several controversies, ranging from their valorization as fundamental explanatory categories for the human sciences to their complete negation as outdated formulas of thinking about societies. Recently, both have been put back into question, given the profound political and social transformations that herald another crisis, that of the nation-state model, in the context of so-called globalization. A number of factors have contributed to re-discussing the attributions and character that historiography has traditionally associated with the State: the creation of new national states in Eastern Europe, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, giving rise to regional autonomies and the emergence of ethnic-based national identities; the process of globalization and the constitution of supranational bodies (the European Parliament, the European Union), emptying the centrality of the State as an agent of political action and source of rights, and modifying, by partially overcoming borders, national identities; the resurgence of social minority movements, especially of blacks, women and homosexuals, promoting the creation of segmented identities, based on ethnicity, gender and sexual options, among others, claiming the right and respect for cultural differences; the aggravation of social inequalities and the bankruptcy of the social welfare state, making some rights (employment, education, health) an almost privilege; finally, the redemocratization process in Latin American countries, including Brazil, emphasizing the role of civil society as a space for political action, almost in opposition to the State, and more recently, the processes of plurinational states. It is in this context that the emergence in Brazil, in the first decade of the 21st century, of two large parallel academic initiatives - each involving researchers from different national and international universities - aimed at investigating, in the light of new analysis perspectives, the processes correlates of construction and development of the State and the nation in Brazil. The first of them was carried out by researchers gathered around the Thematic Project Formation of the State and the Nation: Brazil, c.1780-c.1850 under the direction of István Jancsó (USP, in memoriam), which had the support granted by FAPESP, between the years 2005-2009, and was headquartered at the Institute of Brazilian Studies of the University of São Paulo. Between 2005 and 2010, she produced the Revista Almanack Braziliense. Focused on the publication of studies on the history of Brazil and Portuguese America in the 18th and 19th centuries, and focusing on the process of formation of the State and the nation in Brazil in its internal dimensions as well as its interfaces with the Hispanic world and the global situation, the magazine published 11 semiannual issues, consolidating itself as an academic reference in the area. The second initiative originated within the scope of the Center for Studies of the 1800s (CEO), which has resulted in three successive projects financed by PRONEX / CNPq – FAPERJ: Nation and citizenship in the Empire: new horizons (2003-2006), Dimensions of citizenship in the 19th century (2006-2009), and Dimensions and borders of the Brazilian State in the 19th century (2009-2012); the first two under the coordination of José Murilo de Carvalho (UFRJ) and the third by Lúcia Bastos Pereira das Neves (UERJ). The fruitful academic dialogue developed by these two projects over the years gave rise to the partnership that materialized in ALMANACK, based at the Federal University of São Paulo since 2011. The researchers involved in this endeavor are linked to several national institutions in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, and Espírito Santo - UNIFESP, USP, UFF, UNIRIO, UERJ, UFJF, UFOP, UFES, UFRJ, UFSJ, UFRRJ and PUC-RJ, in addition to counting on the participation of researchers of foreign institutions based in Argentina, Guyana, United States, Spain and France. This is an innovative and promising interinstitutional experience, which contributed to further expanding dialogue, dissemination of work, and critical understanding of the period in question. Furthermore, in 2013, the CEO also led the creation of the Brazilian Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEO - https://www.seo.org.br/), to which ALMANACK is linked as a partner. ALMANACK seeks to condense what, despite the natural and healthy differences that characterize the researchers involved in it, represents the great convergence that links them to this common project: the intention of revisiting, from new perspectives, the theme of the formation of the Brazilian State and nation, thought of as historical constructions and as spaces for disputes, negotiations, conflicts and diverse desires, in order to entangle, as in a mosaic of projects and identities, multiple spheres or circumscriptions (political, bureaucratic, geographic, social, cultural and economic). The Journal, which has been part of the SciELO collection since 2016, is produced using free software for the production of electronic journals (OJS), guarantees better navigation and search conditions, in addition to reinforcing what the researchers involved in it have always been a crucial issue: the construction of a journal with completely open and free access, fundamental conditions for the journal’s sustainability.
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Open Science Compliance
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ALMANACK is in accordance with current Open Science principles. The Unifesp Periodical Portal, where it is also located, developed by the Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Research, the Unifesp Publishing House, and the Coordination of the Library Network and the Information Technology Superintendence, is also in compliance with the development of open science debate and practices, with the aim of developing and sharing, through social media, transparent and accessible knowledge (FOSTER Open Science Definition). In this sense, ALMANACK accepts manuscripts that have been previously deposited on a non-commercial Preprints server, as long as they have not been simultaneously submitted for peer review in another journal. The responsible author must inform whether the manuscript is deposited on a Preprints server and must provide the corresponding DOI. No submission and/or publication fees are charged for any text submitted to the Journal. |
Publication Ethics
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ALMANACK adopts the ethical guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), of the Code of Ethics American Educational Research Association, the Code of Good Scientific Practices – FAPESP and the Council of Science Editors (CSE) in relation to publication. The conduct followed in relation to Bad Conduct and Sanctions is described below. |
Focus and Scope
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ALMANACK is an academic-scientific journal aimed at an audience of specialists in the humanities, particularly History. It is dedicated to publishing original articles linked to the multiple issues of the history of the formation of national states between the 18th and 19th centuries. It is particularly interested in the Brazilian and Latin American process. Our mission is to publish original articles, the result of research that promotes advanced knowledge of our disciplinary area and contributes to renewing historiography at an international level.
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Digital Preservation
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Unifesp's Periodicals Portal, within the scope of the Research Data Repositories Network launched by FAPESP, joins the integrated effort of the Rectory, Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Research, the Unifesp Publishing House, the Coordination of the Libraries Network and the Information Technology Superintendence so that the science produced and published by any instance of the university is based on a data management and preservation plan. In this sense, the Periodicals Portal was born integrated with the UNIFESP Scientific Data Repository, supported by the Dataverse platform, and with the Cariniana Network, a Brazilian network of digital preservation services. |
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Bibliographical Sheet
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Periodical title: Almanack Short title: Almanack (Guarulhos) Published by: Guarulhos SP: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola de Filosofia Letras e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de História Periodicity: Quarterly Publication mode: Continuous Publication Year of creation of the periodical: 2011 |
Websites and Social Media
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ALMANACK is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes texts that deal with its theme, be they articles, historiographical reports, texts arising from discussion, essays, and reviews, always encouraging comparative and theoretical-methodological approaches. It adopts the ethical guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Code of Ethics American Educational Research Association, the Code of Good Scientific Practices (FAPESP), and the Council of Science Editors (CSE) in relation to publication. ALMANACK is divided into four sections: the Forum and Dossier, which are composed of articles previously commissioned by the Editorial Board or by an ad hoc organizer. The Article and Review sections are open continually for submissions and proposals for preparing Dossiers per the rules below. All articles can be submitted in Portuguese, English, French, or Spanish. The instructions for submission are below. All manuscripts submitted to ALMANACK pass through a pre-selection where their approach to the topic is evaluated in terms of relevance, clarity of writing, and concordance with the journal’s stated purpose. Forums and Dossiers should be published together with a short text introducing the topic, including title and bibliography, and in both Portuguese and English. The Forum is a section comprising three articles originating from a semi-annual event held by the journal, where researchers are invited to present an unpublished text on a specific topic, which is published in the following journal issue. Unlike other journals, the forum is a space for discussion, open criticism, and presentation of the most current research in the area. The evaluation of the manuscripts submitted to the Dossier section will be carried out by a commission designated by the Editorial Board, involving the organizers, journal advisors, and ad hoc peer reviewers. |
Peer review process
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ALMANACK adopts the double-blind peer review process, which involves two or more referees assigned to review the manuscript. The identities of the reviewers and authors are concealed from each other throughout the evaluation process. However, following the principles of Open Science, ALMANACK offers authors and reviewers the possibility of mutually revealing their identities during the evaluation process. In cases of mutual consent, the journal provides the option for direct dialogue between authors and reviewers via the journal's interface. This permission is granted upon completion of the submission and review forms. At the end of each year, the journal publishes the names of the reviewers who participated in the evaluation process. The name of the editor responsible for the evaluation process is indicated at the end of each text. All scientific contributions are reviewed by the Editor, members of the Editorial Board, and/or invited reviewers, using the following processes: Initial Review: at this stage, the Editorial Assistant evaluates whether the manuscripts comply with the rules set out in the Author's Guidelines. The manuscripts are returned to the authors if they do not meet the criteria. Evaluation Process: manuscripts that pass the initial review are assigned two independent reviewers based on their expertise in the relevant field. Feedback: reviewers communicate their assessments directly through the journal's OJS system. The decision can be "Accept the article," "Mandatory revisions required," "Resubmit for re-evaluation," or "Reject the submission." If the decision is to "Resubmit for re-evaluation," the manuscript must be revised by the author and resubmitted for a second round of peer review. Approval or Rejection: based on the evaluations, the editorial board decides on the approval or rejection of the manuscript. If accepted, the manuscript proceeds to the editing process for publication. |
Open data
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ALMANACK encourages authors to deposit their data in freely accessible repositories to share data, codes, and other materials resulting from research. Indicates reading of the following documents produced by SciELO: Research data citation guide: https://wp.scielo. org/wp-content/uploads/guia-de-citacao-de-dados_pt.pdf. List of repositories for depositing research data: https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/Lista-de-Repositorios-Recomenda dos_pt.pdf. |
Fee Collection
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All content published in ALMANACK is licensed under the Creative Commons (CC-BY) Attribution 4.0 International license, and no submission fees are charged. |
Adoption of similarity-checking software
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The journal Almanack follows the guidelines of the Guide to the Use of Artificial Intelligence Communication Tools and Resources for Research from the SciELO Network. It uses Turnitin software to detect similarities with other texts in the submitted materials. All articles submitted to the magazine undergo this verification. Manuscripts that have been plagiarized will be rejected, and the Authors may be sanctioned according to the penalties determined by the Editorial Board as stipulated below. |
Ethics and Misconduct Policy, Errata and Retraction
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ALMANACK adopts the Office of Research Integrity's definition of research misconduct, which includes fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in the preparation, execution, or review of research or in the reporting of research results. Research misconduct does not include honest errors or differences of opinion. Any cases of misconduct will be treated with the appropriate sanctions established by the Editorial Board.
In cases of duplicate or redundant publishing practices, corrections, and retractions, ALMANACK has adopted the following recommendations:
Sanctions: practices that detract from scientific integrity, such as plagiarism, duplicate publications, or redundant publications, will be presented to the Editorial Board for review. The Board will decide on the appropriate sanction, including suspension from publishing in this journal for a determined length of time. Authors will be immediately notified of any developments in the sanctioning process. Privacy Statement: the names and addresses provided in this periodical will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties. |
Conflict of Interest Policy
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Conflicts of interest can be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial in nature. These occur when authors, reviewers, and/or editors have interests that may influence manuscripts' creation and/or evaluation. At the time of submitting an article, the author must acknowledge and declare any financial or other conflict of interest that may have influenced their work. In cases where there is, even potentially, a conflict of interest, the author must report it in a document signed in their own hand and attach it on the OJS platform of the journal. More information on this can be found at Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest. |
Sex and Gender and Race Issues
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ALMANACK supports the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER as well as the set of DEIA Principles (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility). We follow a policy of gender and racial equity in the formation of the editorial board, as well as in proposing contributions to the Journal in all its sections, and we are attentive to the implementation of policies regarding inclusion and accessibility. |
Ethics Committee
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ALMANACK recommends that authors submit their research to the Ethics Committees of their institutions, which are responsible for approving compliance with its guidelines according to each area of knowledge. |
Copyright
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The Author/s are the copyright holders of the submitted manuscripts. They grant ALMANACK the right to publish the aforementioned text in accordance with the open license policy defended by the journal. |
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
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The data, concepts, and opinions presented in the works, as well as the accuracy of documentary and bibliographical references, are the sole responsibility of the authors. All content published on ALMANACK is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC-BY). Attribution 4.0 International license and does not pay a submission fee. |
Sponsors and Development Agencies
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ALMANACK received occasional support from the CNPq Universal Research Projects of Gladys Sabina Ribeiro and Lucia Maria Bastos Pereira das Neves. |
Editor-in-Chief
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Deputy Editor-in-Chief
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Executive Editor
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Dossier Editor
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Communication Editor
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Deputy Communications Editor
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Review Editor
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Editorial Board
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Consulting Board
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Technical Team
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Guidelines for Submitting Reviews and Dossier Proposals
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Reviews:
Organization of Dossiers: ALMANACK accepts proposals for dossiers that meet the following editorial guidelines and directions:
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Authorship and contributions
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ALMANACK recommends that authorship be based on the following criteria:
All contributors who do not meet the authorship criteria should be mentioned in the Acknowledgments section, as well as the financial support from funding agencies. |
Manuscript Preparation
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The manuscript should be submitted in a Microsoft Office Word file, which should contain a maximum of 11,000 words, including the title, abstract, keywords, and footnotes, in Times New Roman font, size 12. The files should not exceed 2 MB. To facilitate the evaluation process, ALMANACK recommends that authors submit their manuscripts in separate files as follows:
Authorship should be removed from Word properties. To do this, open the text in Word, click on the "File" menu, and select "Info." Then click on "Properties," choose "Advanced Properties," click on "Summary," and delete the content of the "Author" field. If the Author agrees to reveal his/her identity, as well as the original being available in a Preprint repository, this action is unnecessary. At the time of submission, the authors choose whether they wish to consent to disclose their identity. In this case, the previous action to remove authorship is unnecessary.
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Additional documents
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When submitting, authors are requested to:
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Citation Rules
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ALMANACK employs a system of footnotes for citations. In this system, all references (author, year, page) for books, articles, theses, or similar sources should be indicated as footnotes in a simplified manner. For example: Carvalho, 1980, p. 36. Only at the end, in the bibliography, should the complete references of the works actually cited in the text be provided. The references mentioned in the manuscript should be numbered in Arabic numerals corresponding to the information cited in the footnotes.
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Citation Standards
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For final bibliography citations, you should follow the following pattern: ABNT NBR – 6023.
PALACIOS, Guillermo. Messianismo e expropriação camponesa. Uma nova expedição ao Reino da Pedra Encantada do Rodeador, Pernambuco, 1820. Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 147, p. 71-108, Feb. 2002. doi: https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i147p71-108
CARVALHO, José Murilo de. A construção da ordem: a elite política imperial. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Campus, 1980.
JANCSÓ, István; PIMENTA, João Paulo Garrido. Peças de um mosaico (ou apontamentos para o estudo da emergência da identidade nacional Brazileira). In: MOTA, Carlos Guilherme (org.). Viagem incompleta. A experiência Brazileira (1500-2000). Formação: histórias, 2. ed. São Paulo: SENAC, 2000. p. 127-175.
HOLANDA, Sérgio Buarque de. A herança colonial – sua desagregação. In: HOLANDA, Sérgio Buarque de (org.). História Geral da Civilização Brazileira. Tomo II: o Brazil monárquico. Vol. 1: O processo de emancipação. São Paulo: DIFEL, 1962. p. 9-39.
GUIMARÃES, Lúcia Maria Paschoal. Debaixo da imediata proteção de sua majestade imperial: o IHGB (1838-1889). 1995. 339f. Tese (Doutorado em História Social). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 1995.
BERNARDES, Denis Antônio de Mendonça. Progresso e rotina: notas exploratórias sobre a questão da modernização técnica em Pernambuco, no século XIX. In: SIMPÓSIO NACIONAL DA ASSOCIAÇÃO DOS PROFESSORES UNIVERSITÁRIOS DE HISTÓRIA, 9., 1977, Florianópolis. Anais do IX Simpósio Nacional da Associação dos Professores Universitários de História. O homem e a técnica. São Paulo: ANPUH, 1979. p.495-514, v.2.
CUNHA, Mafalda Soares da; MONTEIRO, Nuno Gonçalo. Aristocracia, poder e família em Portugal, séculos XV-XVIII. In: CUNHA, Mafalda Soares da; FRANCO, Juan Hernández (orgs.). Sociedade, família e poder na Península Ibérica: elementos para uma História Comparativa. Lisboa: Edições Colibri: CIDEHUS – Universidade de Évora: Universidad de Murcia, 2010. p.47-75. Available at: http://www.ics.ul.pt/rdonweb-docs/Nuno%20Monteiro_2010_n1.pdf. Accessed on: Mar 13, 2015.
COLLECÇÃO dos actos dos parlamentos, e leis dos soberanos da Europa. Lisboa: Na Oficina de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, 1768. Biblioteca Nacional. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Seção de Obras Raras, V-70, 1, 22. COUTINHO, Francisco de Souza. Cartas escritas de França a El-Rei D. João IV. [s.l.]: [s.n.], 1651. Biblioteca Geral. Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
In the final bibliography, DO NOT USE DASHES in references whose authorship is the same as the previous reference. Repeat the authors' names and titles in the same way. For example:
Manuscripts should be submitted through the OJS system on the journal's website: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/alm/index. Before the publication of accepted articles, corresponding authors will receive the referee reports and must adjust the text according to the suggestions received. Afterward, they will send the revised article to the journal, highlighting the changes made in yellow. Once the modifications have been verified, the article will be prepared for publication. Before that, the author will receive the revised text in a Word file. Corrections or changes that the author requests at this stage should be limited to typographical errors; the content or authorship cannot be altered. |
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