Convergences - Journal of Research and Arts Education is an open access journal dedicated to scientific research, having DOI and E-ISSN, which publishes articles in the areas of design, music and visual arts, evaluated in a double-blind peer review system.

The Convergences Journal publishes free of charge, in open access, the original results evaluated by peers, which explain experiences and results from research and practice in the areas of design, music and the visual arts. Through Original papers, Case Reports or Review Papers, by by professionals researchers and scholarly contributors, it promotes knowledge related to the activities of design, music and other visual arts in all its domains of application, as well as its history, its teaching and learning.

The authors and readers of this journal are mainly professionals, students, researchers and scholars from all fields of design, music and visual arts at an international level.

Convergences is published in May and November of each year and accepts papers written in Portuguese, English or Spanish. In 2021, Convergences Journal limited to publishing a maximum of 12 articles per issue, totaling 24 articles per year.

In addition to exporting metadata to various databases, since 2020, all Convergences Journal articles are deposited in the SciELO Portugal collection, PKP PN and in the Scientific Repository of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, also in Open Access.

Call for papers is permanently open.

E-ISSN (Online) 1646-9054
ISSN (Print) 2184-0180
Edições IPCB

Cyclostratigraphy and Rhythmic Climate Change (CRCC) is an international open access peer-reviewed online journal (using DOI) publishing original research articles focused on cyclostratigraphic records, orbital, sub-orbital or seasonal records of climate change, astrochronology and integrated stratigraphy with a cyclostratigraphic component. There is no restriction on geological time or palaeogeographic origin and we welcome theoretical issues on the expression of climate cycles in the Geological record and astronomical models of climate change, as well as issues on the development of new analytic tools for cyclostratigraphy. 

The detailed scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to, orbital and seasonal expression of climate change on Earth and other planets (e.g. Mars), in marine and continental settings, in sediments or ice cores, varve chronology, improvements of the Geologic Time Scale, orbital configuration across major environmental perturbations in Earth’s history, influence of orbital climate change on carbon and other geochemical element cycles, links between orbital configuration and seasonal climate change, astronomical time scales, changes in tidal dissipation and day-length over time, or orbital influence on sea-level change. 

Types of articles

We welcome short and long original manuscripts as well as review papers.

The articles are deposited in open online archives, without any embargo period, where they will be permanently and openly accessible. CRCC is distributed under a Creative Commons BY licence, which means that all content is freely available without any charge to anyone, including the authors.

Authors can already submit their work using this web-site.

This is Opscidia's demo journal! Its main aim is to demonstrate all the features of the platform. 
All the material in demo journal is either some old work from Sylvain that we republish or non peer-reviewed material.
We will gradually upload a diversity of material to show the extent of our possibilities and features.