About the Journal
Aims and Scope
Pro Musica Sacra is a peer‑reviewed scholarly annual devoted to research on music in the Catholic Church. Its areas of interest include choral studies, sacred music composition, organ music, Gregorian chant, liturgics, the history of church music, and sacred music performance. The editorial team consists of specialists affiliated with the Institute of Church Music at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland. The journal accepts submissions in Polish and English.
APCs
The journal does not charge any fees to authors for any part of the submission or publication process.
Double anonymous peer review
Initial screening is done by the Editorial Board. If the subject is appropriate, all submissions to be considered for publication in the Articles section will be subject to a double anonymous peer review process, i.e. the reviewers will not know the identity of the author(s) and the author(s) will not know the identity of the reviewers (each article will be sent to two reviewers, that are independent of the authors, i.e. not affiliated with the same institution). All other submissions to the journal will be subject to review by the Editorial Board.
Open Access and Repository Policy
The journal provides readers with immediate free access to all published content under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Authors are allowed to deposit versions of their work in an institutional or other repository of their choice. The Repository Policy of the Publisher is recorded at Open policy finder provided by Jisc.
Indexing of the journal in databases
The journal is indexed in international databases:
- The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH),
- Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL),
- ROAD - Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources,
- ERIH PLUS,
- Arianta Polish Scientific and Professional Electronic Journals,
- Polska Biblioteka Naukowa (PBN),
- Biblioteka Nauki
The Ethics and Malpractice
To prevent ghostwriting and guest authorship, the editorial staff requires that the input of each author be disclosed, in particular the authorship of the concept, assumptions, methods and relevant passages. The editorial staff must also be informed of the sources from which the publication has been financed. Since ghostwriting and guest authorship are manifestations of the lack of scholarly diligence, the authors of articles are requested to submit statements to the editorial staff concerning the professional and financial input of entities which have contributed to the publication. In cases of suspected or alleged misconduct, we will follow the COPE flowcharts.
Plagiarism policy
Each submission undergoes a plagiarism check using Crossref Similarity Check, powered by iThenticate, prior to the review process. Manuscripts found to contain plagiarism will be rejected.
Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS systems to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.
Journal History
The first issue of the journal was published in 2004 under the title Musicam Sacram Promovere. The following year, the second volume of studies, titled Pro Musica Sacra, was published. Since then, new volumes have been published at an average rate of one issue per year (with an additional special issue published in 2009). Since 2011, the journal has been published as an annual with ISSN 2083-4039 for the print version and ISSN 2391-6729 for the online version. In the past, international authorities in various fields of musical life were invited to collaborate with our journal. Currently, the journal collaborates with several international research centres: the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome and the universities in Graz and Cologne.
