LEGAL STUDIES; SOCIAL SCIENCE; NORMATIVE STUDIES; THEORY OF LAW; SOCIOLOGY OF LAW; PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

Journal IUS Doctrina ISSN Impreso: 1659-3685 ISSN electrónico: 1659-3707

OAI: https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/iusdoctrina/oai

About the Journal

About the Journal

About the journal 

Ius Doctrina is an academic journal of the Institute of Legal Studies of the University of Costa Rica, that publishes current and innovative studies of legal phenomena from different perspectives : normative, theory of law and sociology of law, as well as from other social disciplines, like Sociology, Political Science and Philosophy. As part of the objectives of Institute of Legal Studies, the journal is directed to academics ans students, as well as to the apllicators of law.

Frequency of publication

IUS Doctrina has been an annual journal for several years, publishing a single issue each year  between October and November.

Evaluation process for articles

All work submitted for review to be published in the IUS Doctrina journal must be submitted through the electronic journal, for which the authors must first register, once the registration is done, they must proceed to the incorporation of the article through the submission system.

Papers must be original, unpublished and may not be submitted in whole or in part to another journal. All publications will be disclosed electronically, based on the rules of disclosure and transfer of rights by the authors. IUS Doctrina does not charge authors for any concept. The average duration of the evaluation process is one month. 

The peer review system is as follows:

  • Articles received are reviewed by the editor, if they meet the minimum formal requirements, they are sent to an external peer expert in the subject matter (referee) to which the article refers (single blind system).
  • The referees will be external to the Editorial Board, may be national or foreign and will be appointed by the Academic Direction and the editor of the journal. They will have one month to render their opinion.
  • The opinion of the referees will evaluate the quality of the arguments, the methodology of the research, as well as its conclusions and the impact and contribution they imply for the state of knowledge and legal praxis. 
  • Once the opinion has been rendered by the peers, it will be submitted to the Editorial Board of the Journal.
  • The decision of the Editorial Board will be communicated to the author, and in case it is necessary to make any modification or correction, the author will be granted a period of 5 days to do so.

Open Access Policy

Following the policies of the University of Costa Rica and the Vice Rector's Office for Research, as well as the Budapest Initiative for Open Access, IUS Doctrina provides completely free access to its contents, considering that open access is an indispensable principle for "a scientific culture that promotes the dissemination, disclosure and recognition of science, technology and innovation, as a social and cultural heritage" (article 11.l of the University of Costa Rica Research Regulations).

In accordance with the above, any user is allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or use the content of IUS Doctrina for any legal purpose, without any financial, legal or technical barrier. Likewise, the reproduction and distribution of its content is authorized, with the only limitation of citing the original source. For further details, Revista IUS Doctrina uses for all its content the Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Digital Preservation Policy

IUS Doctrina Magazine has the PKP PLN Preservation Network, which corresponds to the preservation network model distributed by a private network of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) that guarantees the journal a permanent and secure archive. LOCKSS is an open source program developed by the Stanford University Library. This PKP PLN tool is provided by OJS for any of its journals.
Likewise, articles are preserved by the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad de Costa Rica, which corresponds to the publishing entity of this journal.

Copyrights 
Authors who submit their articles for evaluation by the IUS Doctrina Journal retain their copyrights. Therefore, they have the ability to grant permission for publication to the journal for publication in digital format under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.
It should be noted that this magazine, in accordance with the Costa Rican legal system, accepts all the guidelines contemplated in Law No. 6683, Law of Copyright and Related Rights of the Republic of Costa Rica, as well as its reform in Law 7979.

Interoperability Protocol

The journal provides an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface that allows its contents to be harvested by other distribution systems.

Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0.

You can consult it at the following link:

https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/iusdoctrina/oai

History of the journal

The IUS Doctrina Journal arises under the direction of M.Sc. Anahí Fajardo, as an initiative of the Law School of the University of Costa Rica in 2007, seeking to offer a virtual alternative as a means of dissemination of legal knowledge, through a biannual publication, while providing a space to publish students who have defended their final graduation work with distinction. Through the Legal Informatics Unit, from the first semester of 2008, the first issue was published with five articles by prominent national jurists.

Since 2011, the Scientific Council of the Institute of Legal Research made the decision to create a Journal of this Academic Research Unit, initially intending it to be called Studia Juridica Cuadernos Digitales de Ciencias Jurídicas, but a series of difficulties prevented the Journal project from materializing in the publication of an issue.

On April 5, 2014, in session 5-2014, the Scientific Council of the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas decided that the Revista Jurídica Ius- Doctrina would become the official journal of said institute. Dr. Javier Llobet became the Academic Director of the Journal and M.Sc.. Anahí Fajardo, as the Editorial Director of the Journal.

Subsequently, during the period 2017-2018, the Academic Direction of the Journal was in charge of Dr. Hugo Muñoz Ureña, Director of the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas; while the Editor of the Journal was M.Sc. Agustín Gutiérrez Carro.

Currently, since February 2019, the Academic Direction is in charge of the new Director of the Institute, Dr. Gustavo Chan Mora; and its Editor is M.Sc. Agustín Gutiérrez Carro.

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