About the Journal

APPROACH AND SCOPE 

Estudios journal is a free, open access publication of the School of General Studies of the University of Costa Rica. The journal is published every six months. Its objective is the publication and dissemination of inter and transdisciplinary academic and scientific production that includes a humanistic approach. Traditionally, the journal has been interested in the humanistic areas of philosophy, literature and history, specifically Costa Rican history, Latin American history, universal history and cultural history. 

This publication is oriented to students, teachers, researchers and the general public. Estudios journal publishes academic articles, thematic dossiers, reviews, biographies, documents of historical interest and lectures related to the topics of interest of the magazine. The journal is open to submissions of documents in Spanish and English original and unpublished. 

The Estudios Journal does not request or charge any economic fee for the reception, processing or publication of articles.

Estudios journal has several sections. The peer-reviewed sections include the academic articles and the thematic dossiers. The non-reviewed sections include biographies, bibliographical reviews, documents of historical interest and lectures related to the topics covered in the journal. 

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY 

The periodicity of the journal is six-monthly: the first issue covers the months of June to November, the second issue, the months of December to May. Depending on the number of articles received, the magazine publishes one special issue per year. 

Digital preservation policies

Estudios journal preserves its digital documents by means of a redundant storage system consisting of a series of hard disks, which are kept at the School of General Studies of the University of Costa Rica. In addition, all publications are backed up in the cloud storage service associated with the journal's e-mail account. Moreover, our publication also uses the PKP Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) Preservation System, for more information you can visit this link: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1659-3316. Finally, as a precautionary measure, all published works are in Kerwá, the Institutional Repository of the University of Costa Rica, and in Kimuk, the National Repository of Costa Rica. 

Journal History 

The first issue of Revista Estudios was prepared by professors from the Chair of Historia de la Cultura at University of Costa Rica in July 1978. Its first director was Professor Rose Marie Karpinsky.  

Its initial purpose was "to become an instrument of university dialogue in national and international contexts", to bring historical and academic research into Estudios Generales classrooms and to get rid of "the deafness of the times", that is, the lack of communication of intellectual thought due to the absence of channels for it. 

The journal began with four sections: national history, Latin American history, world history, and bibliographic reviews. From its earliest issues, the journal highlighted the role of professors from Estudios Generales who carried out the 1957 reform. Additionally, the journal embodied an interest in discussing issues related to Central American and Costa Rican realities, as well as current world issues. 

Thus, early on, the journal demonstrated an interest in humanism and the humanities. It consistently provides consideration on the importance of the humanities in the integral training of students and professionals, the professional responsibility regarding scientific knowledge and, in more recent issues, it addresses topics such as human rights, advocacy of public universities and open knowledge. 

For more than 25 years, the journal was edited and distributed in print form. Starting in 2007, the process of transitioning to digital format began, first through its inclusion to the regional online information system, Latindex, and then through University of Costa Rica’s academic journal portal in 2012. This meant that the journal was edited and published in the Open Journal System from that point on. 

Although the Revista Estudios was born as a history journal, over the course of more than three decades it has become a means of promoting humanist thought