Warranties and Assignment of Intellectual Property Rights
Authors who publish in Revista Minerva agree to the following terms:
Authors continue as owners of their work, assigning only dissemination rights to Minerva Magazine under the standards of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
This license allows others to mix, adapt and build upon the work for any purpose, including commercially, and although new works must also acknowledge the initial author, they do not have to license derivative works under the same terms.
Policies and Ethics
The “Revista Minerva” is guided by the academic purposes of the University of El Salvador as established in Article 3 of the Organic Law:
- Preserve, promote and disseminate science, art and culture.
- To train morally and intellectually qualified professionals to play their corresponding role in society, integrating the functions of teaching, research and social projection.
- To carry out philosophical, scientific, artistic and technological research of universal character, mainly on the Salvadoran and Central American reality.
- To promote, with a social-humanistic sense, the integral formation of the student.
- To contribute to the strengthening of the national identity and the development of its own culture, at the service of peace and freedom.
- Promote sustainability and the protection of natural resources and the environment.
- To foster among its students the ideal of unity of the Central American peoples.
In addition, the Journal adheres to the institutional values of the Universidad de El Salvador.
Revista Minerva adheres to the international standards and codes of ethics established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (Code of Conduct and Best Practices Guidelines for Journals Editors), COPE and the Council of Science Editors.
Antiplagiarism policy
Manuscripts proposed for publication in the Revista Minerva are submitted for review by the text similarity detection program in its free option called Plag. Manuscripts with a similarity percentage of more than 15% will not be accepted.
Open access policy
The Revista Minerva of the Universidad de El Salvador operates on a not-for-profit basis. It provides free and open access to the publications produced by the journal, immediately upon publication of their respective issues, according to the established periodicity. The purpose of promoting the global exchange of knowledge. Regarding the editorial process, it does not charge or pay monetary retribution to the authors who send publications, and they cede the right to publish their work in the journal. Neither does it make payments or promote gifts to reviewers who participate in the arbitration process.
Open evaluation policy
The journal evaluates its articles through blind peer reviewers, the review process is transparent and participatory. A list of reviewers who have participated in this process will eventually be published after two years.
Privacy Statement
The names and (institutional) e-mail addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes set forth herein and will not be provided to third parties or for unauthorized uses.
Interoperability protocol
Web: https://minerva.sic.ues.edu.sv/index.php/Minerva/oai
All Minerva Journal Portal publications incorporate interoperability protocols that allow their contents to be harvested by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters. Journals published through OJS (Open Journals System 3.1.2.1) incorporate the OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol with the possibility of obtaining different formats for metadata.