Convergences - Journal of Research and Arts Education is a Diamond 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 (no-fee for publishing or reading), 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 Fundamental Research Papers, Case Reports or Review Papers, 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 – Journal of Research and Arts Education is a Diamond Open Access journal that provides immediate and unrestricted access to all its content, without any fees for submission, processing, or publication to authors or institutions (No APC – No Article Processing Charges) and without any cost or registration requirement for readers.

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), allowing unrestricted reading, downloading, copying, distribution, printing, and lawful reuse, provided that the original authors and source are properly cited.

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.

Convergences Journal was was founded in 2008 and accepted to Scopus Indexation in July 2023.

In addition to exporting metadata to various databases, since 2020, all Convergences Journal articles are deposited in the SciELO Portugal collection, PKP PN, is listed on DOAJ, Sherpa/Romeo, on the Internet Archive and in the Scientific Repository of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco and is indexed by Scopus.

Call for papers is permanently open.

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