Journal focus, scope and publishing frequency

The InterSedes Journal is a multidisciplinary publication that collects the contributions of the university community of the different campuses of the University of Costa Rica, as well as of any other national or foreign universities that consider the Journal an ideal means of communicating their knowledge.

The Journal has a multidisciplinary nature that ensures that each issue offers a diversity of topics. This character makes it possible to organize thematic sections for each issue and according to the supply of manuscripts. The character of the Journal is multidisciplinary, so that the campuses are fully represented in accordance with the research and academic practice that they develop.

The purpose of the Journal is to offer a mean by which to disseminate the knowledge resulting from research, academic and creativity activities, for the people from all the campuses of the University of Costa Rica, as well as from any other university. The Journal is published in open access twice a year. Its ISSN is 2215-2458. At the present, the Journal has been indexed by UCRIndex, Latindex, REDALyC and SciElo.

The Journal publishes scientific articles, technical notes, book reviews, bibliographic reviews and literary works (stories, poems, literary essays).

The works are received throughout the year. The magazine publishes two issues a year, each January (it covers the period from January to June) and July (it covers the period from July to December).

The results of the evaluation are delivered as soon as possible (depending on the availability of the evaluators).

The Journal offers the possibility of locating debates or problems around a common theme. Likewise, it allows the organization of a section by invited editors (for example, a researcher from a Headquarters, or even from another university, who would like to collect collaborations on the same topic worked by several colleagues). Foreign authors can contribute to a debate or even offer several manuscripts that make up a section

Finally, its official languages ​​are Spanish and English, which facilitates a wider dissemination of knowledge when receiving manuscripts from other countries.

Peer review process

In order to ensure high-quality publications, the Journal follows an arbitration system based on external peer evaluation according to the field of specialty of each manuscript. This evaluation is double blind: neither the author nor the evaluator know each other.

Due to the multidisciplinary nature of the Journal, it is recommended that the author indicate at least two people who can act as peer reviewers to contribute to the peer bank.

The article evaluation process goes through five different moments.

1. The author must complete the article and own data from the Open Journal System, otherwise the proposal will not reach the editor of the journal.
2. The editor reviews compliance with the requirements of Intersedes Journal in the article.
3. The article is submitted to the opinion process by academic peers external to the University of Costa Rica, chosen by the Editorial Board of the InterSedes magazine, according to the thematic axes and specialization of the work, and under the double-blind modality (anonymous). and using the formula: Intersedes Journal evaluation form. The results of the evaluation will be delivered as soon as possible (depending on the availability of the people evaluating the manuscripts).
4. The evaluations could recommend modifications to the article or adjustments of another nature, which will be conditions to conclude the definitive evaluation. The author will have two weeks to integrate them into the article and send it to the magazine.
5. The final decision whether or not to publish the article corresponds to the Editorial Board of Intersedes Journal.

Evaluation standards

1. The author must send the Letter of Originality (sworn statement), signed and transferring the rights for the dissemination of the articles. This letter must be attached to the article(s).
2. The receipt of articles does not presuppose their publication.
3. Articles must include the academic or scientific affiliation of the authors.
4. Articles must include the title, abstract and keywords in two languages, in their original language, be it Spanish or English; but when the original language is English, the second language must be Spanish.
5. For keywords in Spanish and English it is recommended the use of the UNESCO Thesaurus, web address: http://vocabularies.unesco.org/browser/thesaurus/es/.
6. The submitted article must not be postulated for simultaneous publication in other journals or editorial bodies.
7. The peer review process takes an average of 6 weeks.
8. The final decision of whether the article is published is made by the Editorial Board of Intersedes Journal.

Open access policy

The contributions that are published in the InterSedes Journal are freely and immediately accessible to anyone who consults the respective website. The principle that governs this policy is that the results of the research and academic work should be freely available to the public, thereby promoting greater exchange of information by stimulating the dissemination of knowledge and creating a greater regional impact where the University of Costa Rica is located.

 The articles published have a Creative Commons license "Atribution NonCommercial-NoDerivs" By NC-ND 3.0 of Costa Rica.

Copyright notice

Authors who apply to this Journal accept the following conditions:

1. The authors retain their copyright and assign the right to the first publication of their work to the Journal.
2. Authors may have non-exclusive license agreements to distribute the version of the published work (Examples: deposit it in an institutional repository, publish it in a book or monographic volume) provided that the initial publication in this Journal is indicated.
3. Authors can disseminate their work published in this Journal through the Internet to increase the citations of their work.

The articles published in the journal may freely be used for educational and scientific purposes, as long as the correct bibliographic reference is made. The commercial use of the articles published in this journal is punishable by international regulations.

 

Free publication

InterSedes Journal is a free magazine. Your registration, submission, and evaluation of manuscripts, as well as the editorial process, are completely free. The University of Costa Rica covers the costs of each publication, so that the authors are not asked for any kind of payment.

Preservation policies

InterSedes Journal has implemented the CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Save) digital preservation system to guarantee the permanence and security of the journal’s articles. CLOCKSS is based on the open source LOCKSS software developed at the Stanford University Library. This software enables libraries to retain their chosen web journals. Each file is constantly validated against other caches in the same libraries and, if the content is found to have been corrupted or lost, the other caches or those in the journal are used for restoration. The InterSedes journal is included in the LOCKSS filing system of the University of Costa Rica.

Ethical standards

The edition of the Journal presents a series of demands, that are set as rules for those who submit a manuscript to the InterSedes Journal for publication. These rules have been prepared in accordance with the criteria of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which on its website -www.publicationethics.org - has set out an ethical guide for publication.

The guidelines are stated in such a way that they reflect how the articles or contributions should be presented:

1. Contributions must be the product of the author's research and academic practice and must be original with respect to previous productions by him or by other people. Therefore, the publications must not be redundant or duplicate (self-plagiarism), and they must not contain any plagiarism.
2. Publications must be entirely transparent with respect to the reference sources from which the ideas and data that are not of their own creation come.
3. In relation to the data provided, these must have scientific support, so that the empirical, theoretical, or practical support from where they were generated can be appreciated.
4. The authorship of the contributions must be clearly indicated from the moment they are submitted for evaluation. Any change must be made in advance of the publication. Furthermore, if the articles presented are the product of research projects with several scholars, they must have participated in the entire research process.
5. The manuscripts that are delivered to the Journal must obey the intentions of their authors of communicating or making known the results of their research or projects, so they must not contain any conflict of interest with any instance, institution or person.
6. The contributions that are delivered to the InterSedes Journal should not be sent simultaneously to other magazines, as this compromises the originality of the articles and the rights to their publication. Any previous version (preprint) that has been placed in institutional repositories for reading and feedback from other academic peers, must be withdrawn at the time of sending the manuscript to the journal.
7. The authors undertake to apply the recommendations derived from the arbitration and publication process, such as:
   1. The review and incorporation of the corrections suggested by the evaluator.
   2. To answer to the observations and doubts resulting from the edition of the document (correction of style and adaptation to the editorial guideline).

These basic rules must be applied by each author, by the Management of the Journal and by the Editorial Board.

Code of ethics and plagiarism detection system

InterSedes journal adheres to national and international ethical regulations on the publication of documents. This journal is supported by the regulations of the Committee on Publication Ethics COPE and uses the tools of the Turnitin platform to detect academic and professional plagiarism.

The editorial process of InterSedes journal is carried out by editors, authors, and reviewers. The editors are responsible for the transparent and impartial compliance of the journal’s rules and regulations. The authors are responsible for sending original, novel, and unpublished research only to our journal while the peer review is taking place and for the clarity of sponsors, methodology and sources used. The authors are responsible for the content of their published papers. And the reviewers undertake to communicate possible anomalies, plagiarism or fraud in the assigned investigations, to evaluate the papers according to the regulations and the times established by the journal, and to base their opinions in accordance with the journal’s evaluation forms, arguing the possible rejections or contributions to improve the quality of the document received, as well as to abstain from the use of the information from the papers until their publication in the InterSedes journal.

If plagiarism is detected, the manuscript is immediately rejected and the author is informed of the editorial decision.

If a fault is detected against the rules indicated above in the first evaluation to which the manuscript is submitted, the author will be notified immediately and their collaboration will be returned as unapproved. The above applies to translations of articles already approved. The reception, evaluation and approval of manuscripts is the responsibility of the InterSedes Journal regarding the manuscripts received.

Privacy statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by this journal and will not be available for any other purpose or other person.