Open Access Policy and Guides for good practices

This journal provides immediate open access to its content because it believes in one essential principle: offering the public free access to research facilitates the global exchange of knowledge.

UcoArte. Revista de Teoría e Historia del Arte appreciates the quality and results of the research published in each issue. For this reason, it takes as a reference the Ethics toolkit for a successful editorial office y Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing  promoted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). With the objective of promoting an accessible and free culture, the journal will always ensure free access to each of its contents. For more information, please feel free to consult the following links:

Ethics toolkit for a successful editorial office

Principles of Transparency y Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing

All the members of the editorial board are committed to evaluating and managing the original works with the greatest impartiality and always respecting the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). All parties involved in the review process will remain in the strictest confidence. When a conflict of interest occurs, that is, when the proposal to be evaluated is related in any way to the evaluator or the editorial board, they must reject the evaluation process of the work submitted.

All papers published by UcoArte will be licensed under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), so both the reading and research community is free to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium, as well as remix, transform and build upon the material for any purpose. However, anyone using the published article is required to cite attribution for the content they use, always give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence and indicate if changes have been made. The license can be found at the bottom of the website and in the sections of each article we publish.  In UcoArte we believe that culture should be free and accessible to interested people, for this reason in our website you can download scientific articles at no cost, as well as the research community will not be charged for publishing in the journal. 

On this basis, at UcoArte. Revista de Teoría e Historia del Arte, we take into account the following points:

 

                                                                   1. Publication and authorship

UCOARTE requires authors to observe strict rules regarding editorial ethics: plagiarism - it is forbidden to publish the same research in more than one journal - duplicate publication of authors' own work - in whole or in part, without due acknowledgement - and misappropriation of other Authors' work.  Allegations of misconduct will be discussed initially with the author concerned. In the event that the discussion persists the matter will be referred to the author's institution and funding bodies for investigation and prosecution.

                                                                  2. Author's responsibilities

Authors are obliged to participate in a peer review process. The journal wishes to ensure that all authors have made a significant contribution to the research submitted for review, and that all data contained in their articles are true and authentic. We insist that all authors are obliged to make changes or corrections of errors.

If the articles submitted to the journal are the result of an I+D+I project or are the result of a funding source, these must be stated in the article, and the author must make sure to fill in the corresponding field in the OJS submission metadata.

If the article is the result of the contribution of two or more people, they must be listed as signatories, therefore they must specify to the journal the criteria followed to establish the order of authorship of the submission.

It should also be taken into account that those who have already participated in the publication of an article in the journal must respect a waiting period before being able to resubmit other papers, and therefore may not submit new proposals until two consecutive years have passed since the publication of the last contribution. This guideline aims to ensure the diversity of authors and topics in our issues, as well as to encourage the inclusion of different academic and professional perspectives.

                                                                3. Peer review and reviewer responsibility

UCOARTE's peer review judgements will be objective and reviewers must not have any conflict of interest with the research, the authors and/or the funders of the research. In this regard, the journal confirms that reviewers should indicate relevant published work that is not cited, and that reviewed articles should be treated confidentially.

                                                              4. Editorial responsibilities

The editors of the journal assume full responsibility and authority for rejecting or accepting an article. The editors confirm that they have no conflict of interest with the articles they reject/accept, that they will only accept an article when they are certain of its authenticity. If errors are found, the editors will encourage the publication of corrections or retractions, while preserving the anonymity of the contributors.

                                                            5. Questions of editorial ethics

Editorial ethics will be monitored and protected by the journal's editorial board by observing guidelines for unaccepted articles, maintaining the integrity of the academic record. The journal will always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary, never publishing plagiarism or fraudulent data.

Editorial practices on gender equality 

UcoArte. Revista de Teoría e Historia del Arte firmly believes in effective equality between men and women. For this reason, the journal is committed to ensuring such parity, both in the different bodies that make up the editorial team and in the evaluation of the articles it receives. Likewise, we invite authors to use inclusive language in their original works, and we recommend consulting the Guide to good practices of inclusive language for writing and translation  (UCOPress. Editorial Universidad de Córdoba, 2023), where you can find different examples and alternatives to achieve a more inclusive communication.

It is also recommended that the research community, where research data including gender has been analysed, report on whether the findings have taken into account possible gender differences.