Editorial Team's Functions
The PSE Editorial Team is made up of the editorial team, the technical team composed of the layout people and the UCOPress Director.
Editorial team
The editorial team is made up of the three Editors of the journal, the people who assume the functions of Associate Editors and the members of the Editorial Board.
The three Editors of the journal are responsible for the institutional representation of the journal. They decide on the appointment and dismissal of the members of the team of associate editors and the editorial board. They are responsible for delegating tasks to each of the team members and dictate the general guidelines and scope of the journal. In addition, they are responsible for planning the content of the publication, reviewing and adjusting the originals received for the unification and correction of all contributions, assigning reviewers and ensuring that the reviews and decisions of the editorial process are carried out in accordance with the standards of the publication. They also ensure that the content of the journal's platform is accurate and up to date.
The main function of the Associate Editors is, together with the Editors of the journal, to propose and design the scientific strategies of the journal and to carry out periodic evaluations of results. In addition, they provide conceptual and scientific support and may assume high-level evaluator functions. They also contribute to the international dissemination of the journal.
The Scientific Committee will advise the Editors of the journal in the search for a high quality and relevant publication. It is composed of a group of Ph.D. researchers with recognized international prestige in different areas of the journal's field of knowledge.
Layout team
The people responsible for the layout of the articles published in the journal belong to two editorial layout companies (Ostraca and Librum Editorial) selected by the journal's editors due to their experience and expertise in this part of the process. Their main function is to correctly organize and distribute the text and graphic elements on the page, adapting the format of the different elements to the design of the publication. In addition, they must semantically mark the content of each article by generating the XML file, with the aim of facilitating its storage, exchange and subsequent processing by computer systems.
Technical team
The person(s) that make up the technical team are responsible for the maintenance and updating of the journal's web page, the incorporation of the technical advances of the OJS platform. The management of computer problems that any user of the platform may have. In addition, to coordinate the training, supervision and dissemination strategies of the journal.