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Open Access and Non-APC Policy

Géneroos is an open access journal, so all content is available free of charge to users or their institutions. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or publicly link to any of the texts published in the journal, or use them for any other legal purpose, as long as it is not for profit, the source is properly cited and the original publication is referred to, without prior permission from the editor or the author.

All texts published in Géneroos are registered under a Creative Commons 4.0 license: you can make use of the published material citing the source from which it comes, respecting the moral rights of each author and the content copied, but you are not authorized to use this material for commercial purposes.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Additionally, the journal assumes the policy of not imposing charges for the processing of articles (NO APC). This means that authors do not incur expenses associated with editing, producing, or publishing their work in this journal. Since GénEroos is sponsored and financed by the University of Colima and does NOT charge any fee for the processing of articles (APC).

In this regard, the journal adheres to:

Open Access (OA) is free access to information and the unrestricted use of digital resources by all people. Any type of digital content can be published in open access: from texts and databases to software and audio, video and multimedia media.

A publication may be disseminated in open access if it meets the following conditions:

  • It is possible to access its content freely and universally, at no cost to the reader, through the Internet or any other means;
  • The author or copyright holder irrevocably grants all potential users the right to use, copy or distribute the content irrevocably and for an unlimited period of time, on the sole condition that due credit is given to the author;
  • The full version of the content has been deposited, in an appropriate electronic format, in at least one internationally recognized open access repository and committed to open access. https://es.unesco.org/open-access/%C2%BFqu%C3%A9-es-acceso-abierto

Copyright Policy

  • Authors will retain their copyright and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work. From the electronic version (e-ISSN: 2992-7862) of the journal (year 1, number 1, March-August 2023), all texts published in Géneroos will simultaneously be subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. This license allows third parties to share the work, as long as its author and its first publication in this journal are indicated.
  • Authorships may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., deposit it in an institutional telematic file or publish it in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
  • Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work via the Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their website) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work.

Self-archiving policy

  1. Authors may enter into other independent and additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (e.g., including it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book) provided that they clearly indicate that the work was first published in this journal.
  2. Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish their work on the Internet (e.g. on institutional or personal pages) after the review and publication process, as it can lead to productive exchanges and a greater and faster dissemination of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).