Opuscula is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome. The annual contains articles within classical archaeology, ancient history, art, architecture and philology, as well as research reviews and book reviews within these subjects. Serving as the main channel for Swedish archaeological research in the Mediterranean, Opuscula strives to provide a strong international academic impact for its peer reviewers, as well as its authors and their research.
Open Access Policy
All content in Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome is published with immediate open access. Readers do not need to pay or register to access the content.
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Authors are encouraged to deposit the final published version of their article for self-archiving (on their personal website) and/or archiving in an institutional repository immediately after publication.
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Authors retain the copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome. Authors can use their text in any way they see fit, including republishing it in different forms, such as online, in books, popular science articles or similar, once it has been published in Opuscula. The Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome would appreciate if authors acknowledge the publication in Opuscula when republishing their work — it is polite, but not required.
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE
All texts in Opuscula are published under the terms of the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0, which means that the texts may be freely shared — copied and redistributed in any medium or format and for any purpose, including commercial purposes. The material may also be adapted — for example, translated or built upon — for any purpose, including commercial use.
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Volumes 16–18 (2023–2025): All text is published with immediate open access under the CC BY license. All images are used with permission from the rights holders, credited in the captions, and explicitly excluded from the CC BY license.
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Volumes 1–15 (2008–2022): These issues were made openly available as PDFs six months after the printed edition was published. No Creative Commons license applies to these volumes.
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