Policies

1. Digital preservation policy

AUTOCTONIA has the purpose of preserving digitally in the long term all the documents it houses. To do this, it develops an action plan that includes basic measures to ensure the digital durability of the scientific material:

  • Backups
  • Documentation storage on servers and external storage units
  • Conversion of formats to safer ones
  • Periodic checks of file integrity to prevent corruption
  • Monitoring of the technological environment to anticipate possible migrations of obsolete formats or software
  • Digital preservation metadata
  • Use of DOI in its new materials

For the purposes of digital preservation, the deposit of documents with easily readable formats (such as PDF and EPUB) is encouraged. In the event that it was not possible to maintain the usability of all existing formats, the journal undertakes to return the files to their authors. The digital preservation policy will be reviewed annually by the AUTOCTONIA journal.

2. Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps to further global knowledge exchange.

3. Quality policies

3.1. Scientific means of knowledge transfer

AUTOCTONIA has a National and International Editorial Committee of recognised prestige, a National and International Scientific Committee, experts in the disciplines present in American and European Universities. The Scientific Committee advises and evaluates the publication, endorsing it scientifically and projecting it internationally. The Editorial Committee issues reports, proposes topics and evaluates manuscripts. The editorial team submits the manuscripts considered for publication for blind evaluation.

AUTOCTONIA is a means of publishing various Research Projects, Research Centers and Groups and Universities, not only to publish articles but monographic sections.

AUTOCTONIA offers detailed information to its authors and collaborators on the manuscript review process and sets criteria, procedures, revision plan and maximum times strictly: a) Preliminary phase of manuscript estimation/dismissal, with a deadline of 4 weeks for your response; b) Evaluation phase of manuscripts with rejection/acceptance thereof; c) Edition of the texts in preprint (digital) in Spanish, English, Portuguese and French. Post abstracts in the language in which the article is written and in English.

AUTOCTONIA Accepts manuscripts in various languages for evaluation, articles in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English have now been published.

3.2. Quality of the editorial process

AUTOCTONIA has been publishing issues with a rigorous periodicity since its inception. An annual volume with two issues is published on a completely regular basis. At the same time, it maintains a strict coherence in its editorial line and in the subject matter of the publication. 

All works published in AUTOCTONIA are subject to prior evaluations by experts from the Advisory Board and the Editorial Board, as well as Reviewers, independent researchers of prestige in the area.

The collaborations reviewed in AUTOCTONIA are subject, as a minimum requirement, to the blind evaluation system, which guarantees anonymity in the revision of the manuscripts. In case of discrepancy between the evaluators, new revisions are carried out that determine the feasibility of the possible edition of the collaborations.

AUTOCTONIA motivates the editorial decision that includes the reasons for the prior estimation, subsequent revision, with acceptance or rejection of the manuscripts, with summaries of the opinions issued by external experts.

AUTOCTONIA has an Editorial Committee, a Scientific Committee and a list of Reviewers. It also has a Director, a General Editor and the assistance of the staff of the Publications Service and the Libraries of the Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins (Chile). 

The Advisory-Scientific Board and the list of Reviewers are made up of professionals and researchers of recognized prestige, without institutional links, neither with the journal nor with the publishing house, marking the evaluation and audit of the journal.

3.3. Scientific content quality

The articles published in AUTOCTONIA are mainly oriented towards the advancement of science in the field of History and Social Sciences.

4. PLAGIO DETECTION POLICY

AUTOCTONIA is committed to the fight against plagiarism. To this end:

- It invites its reviewers to be especially vigilant against plagiarism in their work.

- It makes available and uses anti-plagiarism detection systems.

- It invites readers to detect any plagiarism and to inform us if for any reason any work has evaded the filters or if there has been any error. To do so, we invite you to use the free license system: Viper Plagiarism Checker.

- In plagiarism situations we will use COPE guidelines on Suspected plagiarism in a submitted manuscript .

-All articles received will be submitted to the OURIGINAL (URKUND) plagiarism detection software. If the article does not meet the specified originality criteria, it will be declared inadmissible for publication. If the article has already been published in another journal, it will be removed from the volume in which it is found.

  1. AUTHOR'S FEES

This journal does not charge any fees to authors under its Open Access policy.