Open Access Policy

The author(s) grant(s) a license for publication, understood as a permission where the owner of the intellectual property right gives the Centro de Investigación y Capacitación en Administración Pública (CICAP) permission for publication.

Therefore, the sending of the manuscript by the author(s) is interpreted as the understanding and acceptance of the conditions of the publication regulations and generates an editing contract where the authors grant CICAP, the right to reproduce and disseminate it. CICAP cannot modify the work without the authorization of the authors.

The Revista Científica Administrar lo Público is an Open Access journal, which means that all its content is available free of charge to users and their institutions. Readers are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, as well as use them for any other lawful purpose, without the need for prior permission from the publisher or the authors.

Regarding the licensing aspects of the ALP Journal's production, the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) open-source license is used for published articles.

This implies the freedom to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material.

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
  • NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
  • ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

Furthermore, each published manuscript will include its bibliographic header to ensure it can be harvested by indexers and repositories. Additionally, the Open Access distinctive mark is included to facilitate its identification and contribution to Open Science.

                 

The ALP journal is funded by ordinary resources from the Centro de Investigación y Capacitación en Administración Pública (CICAP), the Vicerrectoría de Investigación, and the Universidad de Costa Rica. There are no fees for the publication of or access to the published articles. In no way does the absence of costs influence editorial decision-making or the quality of the articles and materials published.