Statement of Ethics

The Latin American Journal of Educational Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal that is published every four months (quarterly in its period 1971-2017 and biannually during 2018-2019) in print and online. It adheres to international standards regarding academic procedures and management and is referenced in renowned national and international indexes.

The journal addresses educational researchers, professionals and scholars, as well as students and those interested in issues in educational fields: teachers, technical employees on education, social activists, and public policy decision-makers.

The journal is edited by and available free of charge in the web sites of the Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City and of the Jesuit University System (SUJ). Likewise, it can be found in the indexes and electronic archives to which it belongs and may become part of, as the journal adheres to the global movement for open access relying on the BBB declarations: Budapest (BOAI, 2002), Berlin (2003), and Bethesda (2003).

The journal is free of any fees or charges for manuscript processing and/or publishing materials, or any other article processing charges (APC).

Continuing its longstanding tradition, the Journal joins the set of actions of the SUJ, which seeks “to contribute to the achievement of a freer, more solidary, just, inclusive, productive and peaceful society, through the development and dissemination of knowledge and the training of professionals and researchers of great human and intellectual quality, with competence at an international level, committed to the highest service to others, and inspired by authentically human, social and transcendent values.”

The journal will be, accordingly, an act of social accountability, which acknowledges that scientific research in the educational field culminates with the dissemination of the results of the processes or circumstances subjected to examination and, furthermore, will publish said results in any chosen academic genres. Thus, the Journal seeks to contribute to the national and international debate and provide knowledge for building a more just society.

The criteria leading the work of this journal are academic excellence, ethics in its review and dissemination, as well as efficacy and opportunity in its editorial processes. In every process, the editors of the journal shall adhere to the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE).[1]

Pre-prints policies:

Any version of the collaboration proposed in the Journal must have the approval of the Editorial Committee to be published or cataloged in indexes and repositories by authors or third parties. It includes but is not limited to drafts, pre-prints, post-prints, ahead of print, online first, among others. It is compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license and promotes good editorial practices that avoid duplication or ambiguity of publications.

Digital file preservation policy:

To guarantee the preservation and access to the digital contents of the Journal, we host them in the institution's servers, as well as in those of the repositories to which it belongs, such as Dialnet and Redalyc. Likewise, we make backup copies of the files, use metadata in a format compatible with digital preservation and interoperability, and DOI identifiers since 2016. The Journal is part of the Public Knowledge Projects Preservation Network (PKP-PN), whose objective is the preservation of digital files and whose scope and processes can be consulted at https://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-pn/.

Interoperability protocols:

To facilitate and promote interoperability, the Journal uses OAI-PMH metadata protocols, in addition to offering first-hand its contents linked to Redalyc, which we mark with metadata in the XML-Jats system and which any interested party can harvest from it. Likewise, the Journal uses the interoperability services of OPEN-AIRE, whose scope and processes can be consulted at https://www.openaire.eu/.

Metadata policy:

The Journal uses the Dublin Core data schema, standardized under the highest standards, especially when the editorial team releases the final files. For interoperability purposes, we use OAI-PMH protocol.

The use and reuse of metadata align with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license to which the entire Journal adheres to.

Special Number Policies

The decision to issue a special issue in the RLEE is the decision of the Editorial Committee. The basic rationale for proposing the issuance of a special issue is that there is a subject of extreme relevance in the educational field, in some of the themes that support the sections of the ordinary issues or in any of the bodies that make up or have been part of the life of this publication.

The Editorial Committee will also define the dates of publication and validity of the call, as well as an attempt to publish the finished issue. The Special Issues will follow the academic and scientific quality standards of the ordinary issues. However, in order to account for the widest possible variety of positions on the current issues they address, and following the idea of ​​democratizing knowledge and knowledge, the Special Issues are made up of two differentiated sections.

The Research section adheres throughout to the double-blind arbitration process of the proposed collaborations within the framework of ordinary issues, as detailed in the "Evaluation Process" section of the Instructions for collaboration. Accordingly, the articles published in this section will record their final reception and acceptance dates in a note on the home page.

The collaborations proposed for the Voices and Reflections section will be reviewed in the first stage to verify the absence of repetitions, paraphrases, or plagiarism of other works using specialized software for this function. If this stage is not passed, the work will be automatically rejected. Subsequently, the Editorial Committee will determine whether they represent a greater understanding of the theme that concerns the special issue. If this stage is approved, it will be sent to a simple blind opinion and will be subject to being accepted, conditioned to major changes, or rejected. The texts published in this section will not record the dates of final reception and acceptance to differentiate them from those that make up the Research section.

[1] Which can be consulted at www.publicationethics.org