e-Information Science is a free and open access electronic journal of a scientific-academic nature; it belongs to the School of Library and Information Science whose editorial entity is the University of Costa Rica.
Its primary objective is to disseminate the results of research in the different disciplines of knowledge related to information sciences, in thematic areas such as: librarianship, documentation, information and communication technology, research, statistical analysis and bibliometrics, archival science, information systems. It also publishes works on informatics and collective communication as long as they are related to the area of information sciences. To achieve this goal, e-Information Science receives articles in three languages: Spanish, English, and Portuguese.
The target audience of the journal are researchers, undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students, professionals in the field of information sciences and the general public interested in related topics.
The types of articles that are published are scientific articles and scientific essays.
Descriptors (assigned from the Documentation Sciences Thesaurus):Information science; librarianship; libraries; knowledge; research; information technologies; information systems; information metric studies; public libraries; school libraries; archival science; information policy; intellectual property; computer science and informatics; communication.
Mission: To disseminate the scientific studies of information science professionals with the continuous publication of high quality scientific and academic papers.
Vision: To be the scientific publication of reference in the area of information sciences for its quality, innovation and continuous improvement.
Values:
- Commitment
- Responsibility
- Ethics
- Teamwork
- Teamwork
- Quality
- Quality
- Efficiency
- Efficiency
The Journal e-Information Science was created in 2011 by the School of Library and Information Science (EBCI), from the analysis and reflection of the current context of library research and e-sciences, where today, the generation of new knowledge that arises not only from traditional research but also from new digital information sources requires new and better alternatives for the transfer and processing of research results, a much more open and flexible transfer, and with greater rigor in the verification of data and its processing (Sandí and Chinchila, 2011). In addition, the importance in the field of national and international librarianship of having a scientific and quality space that addresses new development and research topics was recognized.
In addition, e-Information Science seeks to be a tool that promotes the goals sought by the EBCI: "According to the evolution, need and progress of library services in the world and in the country, the career has strived to review and adjust the different curricula according to the needs of the historical moment framed within the national context, to support the educational and research needs of Costa Rican society" (Montero, 2011). In the same way, the journal has sought since 2011 to collaborate significantly in this evolution and progress in national and international librarianship.
In this way, "e-Science definitely gives a boost to the development of research and the generation of new knowledge. The constant production of knowledge requires effective means for its rapid dissemination. That is why electronic publications are an important vehicle. E-Information Science is one of these publications" (Sandí and Chinchila, 2011).
Source:
Montero Gálvez, V. (2001). Historical view of the Library and Information Science Career at the UCR, from 1968 to 1998. San José, C.R.: EUCR.
Sandí Sandí, M. and Chinchilla Arley, R. (2011). E-Information Science: an electronic journal at the service of knowledge transfer. Bibliotecas: Revista De La Escuela De Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información, 29(2). Retrieved from http://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/bibliotecas/article/view/3710
The review process of the e-Information Science Journal is carried out through the peer review system with the double-blind mode. The personal data of the reviewers and authors will be kept confidential in order to avoid conflicts between the parties. This process consists of several stages, which are detailed below.
1. The first stage is the first filter review carried out by the journal's work team. This is an attempt to anticipate those observations that the evaluators would make to the document, in order to strengthen it before starting the peer review process. In this review, the document is analyzed to ensure that it complies with the following stipulations:
- Follow the requirements requested in the instructions for authors.
- Have a well-conducted and applied methodology in the study.
- Present a clear and understandable writing, with a logical structure of ideas.
- No problems of plagiarism or duplicate publication.
It is recommended that authors rigorously review these aspects prior to submission. If the article is considered to fall seriously on one or more of these aspects, the paper will be rejected. This process may take approximately one month to complete.
2. Once the article passes the first filter, it is sent for peer review, using the peer review refereeing system procedure in which two reviewers external to the journal's publishing institution, experts in the subject of the article, read and analyze the manuscript to determine its quality and validity. It is estimated that this phase takes approximately two months.
The specialists have a maximum time of two weeks to analyze and review the article, evaluate it with the parameters indicated by the journal and the addition of specific observations. In this evaluation, reviewers must indicate an opinion according to the following judgments:
- It is recommended for publication
- It is recommended for publication in accordance with the comments
- Publication pending (document needs significant rethinking)
- Publication pending (document needs significant rethinking)
- Do not publish
Once this analysis is concluded, the article with its evaluation is sent to the editor. In the event that one of the reviewers does not agree with its publication, the article will be submitted to a third evaluation, to make the tie-breaker. This process may take an additional three weeks to complete.
You can view the evaluation formula by going to here
3. Then, the Editorial Board and the editor analyze the inputs generated by the peers and the evaluation opinion is made. If accepted, the documents will be returned to the author, with the purpose of including the observations and recommendations made by the evaluators and the Editorial Board, within a period of 15 to 22 days. If the document is not submitted on time, its publication will be moved to the next issue. If the Committee's decision is not to publish the article, this will be communicated to the author.
The final decision on the publication of the article will be made in writing.
The final decision on whether to publish or reject the manuscript, will always be the responsibility of the journal's editorial committee.
4. When the author submits the article with corrections, these will be verified by the editor and those who have evaluated it. If the document still does not meet the requested corrections and quality standards, it will be sent again until the document is ready according to the requested criteria. This second return may imply significant delays in the publication of the manuscript, so it is recommended that the corrections are fully complied with in the first delivery.
Finally, the Editorial Board of the journal is responsible for the delivery and return of the papers; in addition to reviewing the use of citations and bibliographic references, and recommendations on the form of the articles.
The estimated time from the date of receipt of the document to the date of acceptance is approximately 4.5 months.
Any questions about this process, please write to: revista.ebci@ucr.ac.cr
The periodicity of the journal e-Ciencias de la Información is biannual with continuous publication. The first issue is published on January 1st and covers the months from January to June (opens on January 1st and closes on June 30th), and the second issue is published on July 1st and covers the months from July to December (opens on July 1st and closes on December 31st). Articles are received throughout the year and are assigned to an issue according to their arrival; they are published once they are ready.
Note: Starting from volume 14(2) in 2024, the continuous publication model is implemented.
The journal e-Information Science does NOT make any charges related to the application, evaluation, publication or assignment of the Open Access license.
e-Information Science is a scientific journal that follows the principles of the international Open Access movement established in Budapest (BOAI, 2002), Berlin (2003) and Bethesda (2003); thus, the publications of this journal comply with these conditions:
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To grant the free, irrevocable, worldwide right to access, copy, use, distribute, transmit, display, print for personal use, make adaptations and derivatives, and distribute, with appropriate acknowledgments of authorship.
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Access a complete version of the document and its supplementary materials with indication of permission for its use in standard electronic format and its deposit in an appropriate digital repository supported by an academic institution, government, a society or organization that follows open access standards, unrestricted distribution and interoperability mechanisms.
e-Information Science registers your contributions under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license; this license allows others to remix, tweak, and create from your work non-commercially, as long as they credit and license your new creations under the same terms.
The journal e-Information Science makes available its Policy of Ethics and Good Editorial Practices, and notifies that it uses the software Turnitin to make plagiarism detection in submitted manuscripts. Both of these aspects were approved by the Editorial Board on August 31, 2016 and are based on the following documents:
International:
- Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, from Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE, 2015).
- COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers, from Committee on Publication Ethics (2013).
- Retraction Guidelines, from Committee on Publication Ethics (2009).
- Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, from International Committee Of Medical Journal Editors (2015).
- Ethics in Research & Publication, Elsevier (2014).
- Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, COPE (2011).
- Ethics in scientific journals, Baiget (2010).
National:
- Law No. 6683 on Copyrights and Related Rights and its reforms in Law No. 7979, of the Republic of Costa Rica.
- Regulations on Research, University of Costa Rica (2016).
To read the full Policy, click here
The journal e-Information Sciences, in accordance with the policies of the University of Costa Rica, seeks to promote the use of non-sexist language in scientific publications. For this reason, the journal requests those who submit papers for publication in the portal to use forms that include both women and men in their texts. The use of non-sexist language is not a binding criterion for the rejection of the manuscript; however, applicants must abide by the recommendations that may arise during the editorial process of the manuscript to ensure that the text presents non-sexist language.
Supporting guidelines
The journal has preservation of its digital files (pdf) through a redundant storage system which consists of an array of hard drives in order to create a greater tolerance to failures, the device is located in the facilities of the Centro Centroamericano de Población of the University of Costa Rica, and is guarded under lock and key with controlled access.
At the same time the articles are stored in the backup system of the School of Library and Information Science of the University of Costa Rica.
It also has the digital backup provided by the institutional repository of the University of Costa Rica.
The articles are stored in the backup system of the School of Librarianship and Information Sciences of the University of Costa Rica.
The LOCKSS system is also used as a means to create a file that is distributed among the associated libraries, which create a backup that allows harvesting the articles in case their restoration is necessary.
Plagiarism is a fraudulent act that consists of the use of bibliographic material prepared by third parties without directly acknowledging the authorship of others, making it appear that the text presented is one's own, either partially or in its entirety.
In the e-ciencias de la Información journal, the detection of plagiarism and self-plagiarism can compromise the publication of the manuscript submitted, for this purpose, the TURNITIN software is used, which facilitates the search for bibliographic coincidences.
If plagiarism is found, the persons involved will be notified and if the situation is not resolved, the manuscript will be rejected for publication in this journal.
Each case will be evaluated individually by the Editorial Committee to determine the most appropriate course of action in each situation in accordance with the code of ethics and good editorial practices of the Journal.
e-Information Sciences is indexed and registered in the most important national and Latin American and Caribbean databases, such as:
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Our complete list of indexes, databases, catalogs, and other similar information systems in which e-Information Science is found is as follows:
Indexes:
- Emerging Source Citation Index: Web of Science (WOS) index that identifies and observes emerging scientific publications for possible inclusion in its database.
- UCRIndex: index of scientific journals of the University of Costa Rica.
- SciELO: electronic library and indexer of scientific journals on the Internet in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- SciELO Citation Index: cooperative platform between Scielo and Thomson Reuters for the promotion of articles published by journals in SciELO and citation accounting in Web of Science.
- ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences): web portal and index of scientific journals developed by the Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) of the European Science Foundation (ESF).
- CIRC (Integrated Classification of Scientific Journals): classification of scientific journals in the Social and Human Sciences by the EC3 Research Group for the Evaluation of Science and Scientific Communication.
- OEI: index of journals from the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture.
- PKP|Index
- LILACS: Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences
Catalogues:
- REDALYC: open access online scientific journal library of Latin American and Caribbean, Spanish and Portuguese scientific journals, promoted by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México for the diffusion of science.
- LATINDEX: information system on scientific research, technical-professional and popular science and cultural journals published in the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal.
- Sherpa/Romeo: database of editorial policies regarding the self-archiving of journal articles on the web and open access bases.
- REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico): platform for the aggregation of scientific and academic content in electronic format produced in the Ibero-American area.
- DIALNET: bibliographic portal of Hispanic scientific literature, from the University of La Rioja, Spain.
- CLASE: bibliographic database in social sciences and humanities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) that integrates scientific journals from Latin America and the Caribbean.
- COPAC: union catalog of some of the largest university libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
- SUDOC: union catalog of libraries and document centers in higher education and research.
- OCLC World Cat: worldwide union catalog of bibliographic resources.
- eJournal navigator: journal catalog of Augusta University, USA.
- BIBLAT: Bibliografica Latinoamericana in scientific and social research journals.
Directories:
- DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals): online directory of quality open access scientific journals.
- MIAR: (Matrix of Information for the Analysis of Journals): database that gathers key information for the identification and analysis of journals, which generates correspondence matrices between journals, identified by their ISSN and the databases and repertoires that index or include them.
- ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources): is a service offered by the ISSN International Center with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO.
- HINARI: the World Health Organization's access to research for health program.
- SABIO: electronic resources portal of the University of Navarra, Spain.
- SAI: directory of electronic periodicals on librarianship of the Argentine Information Society.
- RecBib: website on electronic information resources and sources in the area of information sciences.
- Open Science Directory: directory of open access journals for developing countries from EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library.
- Ulrich's Periodical Directory: global directory of periodicals from ProQuest.
Repositories:
- Kimuk: Costa Rica's national repository promoted by the National Council of Rectors (CONARE).
- Kerwá: institutional repository of the University of Costa Rica.
- e-LIS: open access repository in the area of library and information science.
- LA Reference: network of open access repositories in science.
- BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): international multidisciplinary repository of the Bielefeld University Library, Germany.
Search Engines:
The e-ciencias de la informacion journal makes available to its contributors the following tools that will serve to improve the quality of the writing of scientific articles:
You can see the workflow here
