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Open Science Policy

The journal Historia Y MEMORIA promotes the values and guiding principles of open science as defined in the recommendation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):

Values

Quality and integrity. The journal follows ethical editorial and evaluation processes and has statements of authorship and license to publish, privacy of information to ensure that the published scientific methods and results are of high quality, transparent and accurate.

Collective benefit. The journal recognizes that science is a global public good that belongs to all humankind, so it adopts the diamond open access model and publishes manuscripts under Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-ND open licenses.

Fairness and impartiality. The journal allows access to content at no cost and relies on the Open Journal System (OJS) portal to facilitate equitable, fair and reciprocal access to scientific results for different producers and consumers of knowledge, regardless of their location, nationality, race, age, sex, income, socioeconomic circumstances, professional stage, discipline, religion, disability, ethnicity, immigration status or other reasons.

Diversity and inclusion. The journal allows access to content in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese on topics and results of historical research.

 

History refers to the permanent dialogue between past and present, change and permanence, duration and event, the linear and the cyclical, the diachronic and the synchronic, to the thought that accounts for society in time. For its part, memory is one of the fields that shape our near past in which practices, social representations, collective imaginaries and the ways in which the population identifies itself in a context converge.

Historia Y MEMORIA intends to publish unpublished articles of research results in any field of history, which will be distributed in the special section and the free zone section, as well as in the reviews and debates section, where reviews, debates, interviews and other types of materials that generate academic discussions will be published.

 

 

 

Principles

  1. Transparency, scrutiny, criticism and reproducibility. The journal has an open access policy, declares the diamond open access route and follows a double-blind peer review process, which strengthens the rigor of scientific results, enhances their positive impact on society and increases the ability to solve problems related to the thematic spectrum defined in its scope.
  2. Equal opportunities. The journal allows access to publications at no cost, ensuring that authors and readers have the same opportunities to access, contribute to and benefit from science, regardless of their origin or circumstance.
  3. Responsibility, respect and accountability. The journal is aware of the public responsibility, intellectual integrity and possible conflicts of interest and social or ecological consequences of research results, follows ethical principles, requests authorship statements according to CREdiT methodology, data availability statements and defines processes to identify and address allegations of research misconduct, or to make additions and corrections, retractions, concerns, requests or complaints, as established in the journal's ethics policy.
  4. Collaboration, participation and inclusion. The journal allows access to its publications on the web in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese with the support of the OJS portal, in addition to being indexed in different databases, in order to contribute to scientific collaborations that transcend geographical, linguistic and resource borders.
  5. Sustainability. The journal is financed by the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC): Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Extensión (VIE), Doctorado en Historia, and is supported by the use of the OJS platform, which allows it to carry out its processes efficiently and financed in the long term.

 

The journal adheres to the “Manifesto on Science as a Global Public Good: Non-Commercial Open Access”, therefore, it is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-ND license in open access diamond route, providing for its immediate publication without charge for authors and readers.

Authors are urged to deposit the final versions of the articles in open access green route via institutional and/or thematic repositories, maintaining the persistent URL (with DOI) of the journal and it is suggested the promotion of these in all possible electronic media and academic networks.

Intellectual property and terms of use

The Journal allows authors to maintain the intellectual property rights of their manuscripts and accompanying materials, requesting to extend to the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) a license to distribute, communicate publicly, transform for purposes necessary for university management and heritage conservation with due acknowledgment of authorship.

The author has the right to share, copy, distribute, perform and publicly communicate the article in its published version, as well as to make a subsequent publication in a compilation of papers, lecture notes, theses or books, as long as he/she indicates the source of the publication (authors of the paper, journal, volume, number, date and DOI).

Persistent identifiers policy

The journal has a policy of persistent identifiers at the article level by granting DOI, at the author level by ORCID and whenever possible is requested to register identifiers at the level of institution and funder by ROR, in order to facilitate the semantic control of their records, enrich the data analytics and transparency in the conflict of interest.

 

Openness of journal metadata

The journal makes its metadata available to the academic and scientific communities through the interoperability of its infrastructures. If it is of interest, it can be connected through our OAI-PMH protocol [https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/historia_memoria/oai] and facilitates the collection of bibliographic references automatically through bibliographic reference managers.

 

Peer review process

The journal adopts double-blind peer review:

  1. double-blind peer review, in this model authors and reviewers do not know their identities, this is the standard format of the journal, and therefore the preprint policy will not be used.

 

Responsible metrics for scientific publications

This journal welcomes the recommendations of the “San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment” (DORA Declaration) on the measurement of science and understands its fundamental role in the conformation of knowledge networks and consolidation of the fields of knowledge; therefore, it explores metrics related to the circulation of its publications, with the conformation of networks of authorship, co-authorship and co-citations, territorial scopes (communities within the country), regional (Latin American communities) and international networks that are formed after publication.