| ISSN - L 0041 - 8242 |
| E - ISSN 3005 - 5857 |
| ISSN 0041 - 8242 |
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Journal Policies
Access and Reuse Policy
Open Access Declaration
The University Journal joins the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Budapest Open Access Initiative - 2001), as we share the purpose of accelerating the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely accessible on the Internet, as articles are available on the web for everyone immediately after publication.
All users have free access to published articles on a global and unrestricted basis. Thus, published materials are available free of charge online. Revista La Universidad does NOT charge any fee for reading, downloading, copying, distributing, printing and using the materials for any purpose that is legal without financial, legal or technical barriers under the Creative Commons CC BY NC SA 4.0 license.
Journal License (Creative Commons CC BY-NC SA 4.0)
The academic and scientific texts published in the Journal "The University" are governed under the CC BY NCSA 4.0 license, this license does not allow commercial use of the original work or possible derivative works. In addition, the distribution of these derivative works must be made under a license equal to that which governs the original work (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es). The author is the sole holder of the publication rights and "La Universidad" Magazine holds the dissemination rights.
Guarantees and assignment of intellectual property rights
Authors who publish in Revista La Universidad agree to the following terms:
Authors continue as owners of their works, assigning only the rights of dissemination to La Universidad Magazine under the standards of the CC BY NC SA 4.0 License, this license allows using a work to create another work or content, modifying or not the original work, as long as the author is cited, the resulting work is shared under the same type of license and has no commercial purposes (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es)
Charge Policy
Charges policy
All users have free access to published articles on a global and unrestricted basis. Thus, published materials are available free of charge online. Revista La Universidad does NOT charge any fee for reading, downloading, copying, distributing, printing and using the materials for any purpose that is legal without financial, legal or technical barriers under the Creative Commons CC BY NC SA 4.0 license.
Scientific evaluation policy
The Revista "La Universidad" considers that the purpose of the practice of peer review is necessary to guarantee quality academic publications. Therefore, referees play a vital role in maintaining the high standards of the journal's publications, so all manuscripts are peer-reviewed following the procedure described below.
Type of refereeing: the refereeing is done under the Open peer review method, this is the refereeing that is done online in a publicly visible way. It is a general term that adapts to the objectives of Open Science, which includes the opening of reviewer and author identities, publication of review reports, interaction between the parties and greater participation in the peer review process.
Referees: for the evaluation of each manuscript there will be two reviewers, both experts in the area of study of the research, with the objective of achieving a high scientific level of the publications.
When the referee does not feel confident to evaluate a manuscript or does not have the time for such activity, he/she should immediately inform the Editorial Board and the latter should delegate another specialist.
Response time: the maximum time for referees to respond to texts is 2 weeks, a period in which reviewers may propose corrections and make observations to the text, with the aim of ensuring that they are duly addressed by the authors. So that the reviewers fully approve the article, approve with observations or disapprove the text.
Approved text: the manuscript was approved with minimal substantive and formal observations for publication.
Text with observations: the manuscript presents major observations of substance and form, it can only be published if the observations are overcome.
Failed text: the manuscript does not meet the minimum criteria for publication.
Editorial ethics policy
The Journal "La Universidad" is guided by the ethical criteria infused by the published COPE regulation https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines because its practices are in keeping with ethics in the field of academic publishing.
You can also consult and review our principles of editorial ethics in our Code of Ethics https://revistas.ues.edu.sv/index.php/launiversidad/codigoetica
Plagiarism detection policy
The Revista "La Universidad" publishes original content, for this reason, the works are subjected to exhaustive reviews in order to detect plagiarism or self-plagiarism:
Papers submitted to the journal go through the following processes:
• Review of the sworn letter where the authors declare that their article is original and undertake not to commit plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
•The Editorial Committee will submit the contents to different plagiarism tools (Quetext, Plag, Duplicheker, Google, Bing, Plagiarisma, Copyleaks, etc.) in order to identify serious intellectual property faults (misquotations, inadequate paraphrasing or minor modifications of a previously published work.
In case of finding plagiarism or self-plagiarism the work will be rejected, so it is recommended to consult the ethical criteria infused by the COPE regulation https://publicationethics.org/ and the Code of Ethics of the Journal "La Universidad" https://revistas.ues.edu.sv/index.php/launiversidad/codigoetica. The percentage of plagiarism/self-plagiarism or similarity accepted by the journal is 15%.
Privacy policy
Names and e-mail addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated in this journal and will not be provided to third parties or for use for other purposes.
Interoperability Policy
All publications of "The University" Journal portal incorporate interoperability protocols that allow their contents to be harvested by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters. Journals published through OJS (Open Journals System 3.x) incorporate the interoperability protocol OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) with the possibility of obtaining different formats for metadata.
https://revistas.ues.edu.sv/index.php/si/oai
Repository Policy
The journal "La Universidad" is housed in the repository of the University of El Salvador, which is managed by the Central Library, the repository contains all the scientific journals of the university, theses, graduation papers, newspaper libraries, among others. It uses DSpace, which is a software of choice for academic, non-profit and commercial organizations that create open digital repositories.
The journal develops several processes to ensure the permanent accessibility of the digital objects hosted on its own servers, such as:
1. backup copies, through a storage location where backup files are kept; 2.
Digital preservation metadata, accessible to the public free of charge according to the guidelines of the Open Access movement. These may be reused by third parties in any non-profit medium, without prior authorization, mentioning the OAI identifier and linking to the original metadata and the other requirements of the individual licenses associated with each document.
3. Use of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
4. Provides easy, controlled and standardized access to objects.
5. Files published on this portal are available in easily reproducible formats (PDF, HTML, and EPUB).
6. It is sustainable over time
Digital preservation policy
The Journal "The University" legitimizes the value of digitally preserving its archives and verifying their permanent availability in open access in the long term, in order to implement the UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage and thus ensure uninterrupted access to its articles.
The journal's website https://revistas.ues.edu.sv/index.php/launiversidad is developed in the open source program for managing and publishing academic and scientific journals online, Open Journal Systems (OJS), developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) whose initiative is to make the results of public research freely available, through Open Access, with the contribution of LOCKSS software that aims at long-term digital preservation.
Self-archiving policy
The Journal "The University" practices an archiving policy where authors are free to archive the post-print version of their article (version evaluated, revised and published by the journal) in different types of repositories or electronic media, under the conditions of the CC BY NC SA 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es recommending that reference be made to the first publication in the Journal "The University".
