Publishers
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:
- Pacto Internacional de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales.
- Creative Commons.
- Iniciativa de Budapest para el Acceso Abierto.
- Declaración de Berlín sobre Acceso Abierto.
- Declaración de Bethesda sobre acceso abierto.
- Declaración de San Francisco sobre la Evaluación de la Investigación.
- Iniciativa Helsinki sobre multilingüismo en la comunicación científica.
- Directory of Open Access Journals. (DOAJ)
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
Those authors who publish with this journal accept the following terms:
- 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.
NOTE: Although the electronic edition of the journal Géneroos is registered under the Creative Commons 4.0 license, in which the authors retain their rights to their works, in the previous editions, specifically in the printed edition (from number 32 backwards), the journal operated under the reserved rights of the University of Colima. Therefore, the legend "all rights reserved" only applies to the printed version corresponding to those issues.
Anti-plagiarism policy
The authors of the manuscripts are entirely responsible for the content of their contributions, as well as for ensuring that they are original and unpublished.
As a policy for the prevention of plagiarism, GénEroos reserves the right to review, through the use of Turnitin, specialized anti-plagiarism software, all manuscripts submitted for publication, using the usual criteria to detect such practices. A basic guide on the most common plagiarism practices can be found on the website of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
In case of detecting a practice of suspicion of redundant publication, suspicion of plagiarism, plagiarism, suspicion of data invention, authorship conflict and/or ethics conflicts in the manuscript, it will be submitted to review by the editorial committee and the management of the journal and depending on its seriousness will determine a sanction, the above will be carried out in accordance and adherence to the main practices in the ética de investigación de COPE.
Digital Preservation Policy
The files of the GénEroos Journal are stored and published on the web portal of Academic Journals of the University of Colima, and are preserved through LOCKSS and CLOCKSS, through Open Journal Systems.
This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archive among participating libraries, allowing those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.
The OJS3 software (Open Journal Systems 3.3.0.8), allows the management of code journals; this program is open access and is developed, promoted and distributed for free by the Public Knowledge Project, under a GNU General Public License.
The magazine GénEroos was founded in 1993. It remained in print until issue 19 of the second period (2016), from issue 20 (September 2016- February 2017) it is published only digitally and all its writing, information, articles, documents, videos are hosted on the server of the University of Colima. As of March 2023, GénEroos processes the digital ISSN and thus inaugurates the beginning of a new era that coincides with its entry into different indexes and repositories that consolidate the work done over 30 years of existence.
The General Coordination of Information Technologies (DGTI) of the University of Colima manages, designs and implements information security policies, as well as establishing work guidelines for the technologies used in the institution. In turn, the General Directorate of Information Systems (DGSI) is part of the DGTI, and is the area responsible for backing up and safeguarding the information of all the pages of the GénEroos journal on web servers that provide hosting and domain to the academic journals of the General Directorate of Publications. To guarantee the implementation of the Digital Preservation Policies of the web portal, the DGSI uses a virtual server in the private cloud of the University of Colima and a daily backup is made that is maintained for up to 7 days.
Self-archiving policy
- 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.
- 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 (seeThe Effect of Open Access).