Guarantees and Intellectual Property Rights Transfer
Authors who publish in Revista Minerva agree to the following terms:
Authors retain ownership of their work, granting only the dissemination rights to Revista Minerva under the standards of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
This license allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the work for any purpose, including commercially, and although new works must also acknowledge the original author, they do not have to license derivative works under the same terms.
The "Revista Minerva" is guided by the academic purposes of the Universidad de El Salvador established in Article 3 of the Organic Law:
- Preserve, promote, and disseminate science, art, and culture.
- Train professionals who are morally and intellectually capable to perform their role in society, integrating for this purpose the functions of teaching, research, and social outreach.
- Conduct philosophical, scientific, artistic, and technological research of a universal nature, mainly on Salvadoran and Central American reality.
- Strive, with a social-humanistic sense, for the comprehensive education of the student.
- Contribute to the strengthening of national identity and the development of an own culture, at the service of peace and freedom.
- Promote sustainability and the protection of natural resources and the environment.
- Foster among its students the ideal of unity of the Central American peoples.
Additionally, the Journal adheres to the institutional values of the University of El Salvador.
Revista Minerva adheres to the international ethical norms and codes established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (Code of Conduct and Best Practices Guidelines for Journals Editors), COPE, and the Council of Science Editors.
Manuscripts proposed for publication in Revista Minerva are subjected to 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.
The Revista Minerva of the University of El Salvador operates on a non-profit basis. It provides free and open access to the publications made by the journal, immediately upon publication of their respective issues, according to the established frequency. The purpose is to promote the global exchange of knowledge. Regarding the editorial process, it does not charge or financially compensate authors who submit publications, and they transfer the right to publish their work in the journal. It also does not make payments or promote gifts for the reviewers who participate in the arbitration process.
The journal evaluates its articles through blind peer reviewers; the review process is transparent and participatory. Eventually, after two years, a list of reviewers who have participated in this process will be published.
The names and email addresses (institutional) entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the stated purposes and will not be provided to third parties or for unauthorized uses.
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All publications in the Revista Minerva Portal incorporate interoperability protocols that allow their contents to be harvested by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters. Journals published using OJS (Open Journals System 3.1.2.1) incorporate the OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol with the ability to obtain different metadata formats.