About the Journal

        1. Focus and Scope

Conectividad Journal is a scientific publication of the Research Department of the Instituto Superior Tecnológico Universitario Rumiñahui, whose objective is to encourage the publication of research articles, and the free dissemination of knowledge related to technological and humanistic areas in the Ecuadorian, regional, and Latin American sphere.

Conectividad Journal has published SEMI-ANNUAL, which is two publications per year. It is published only in electronic version (ISSN No. 2806-5875), in Spanish and English, depending on the language in which the contribution is received. The publication periods are from January to June and from July to December. Each publication is identified with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier System) to improve its positioning in global search engines.

 Conectividad is a continuous, open-access, free publication aimed at students, teachers, researchers, professionals, and the general public who work in development and innovation within the Journal's areas of specialization, with the aim that the published contributions can support activities in the social and productive sector, as well as the development of new research.

e-ISSN: 2806-5875

OAI: https://revista.ister.edu.ec/ojs/index.php/ISTER/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

        2. Open Access Policy

Conectividad Journal does not charge its authors any fees for the submission of articles or their processing (Article Processing Charge-APC). Its publication is open access, and the content is available free of charge through its website: https://revista.ister.edu.ec/ojs/index.php/ISTER/issue/archive

To reinforce our open access policy, Conectividad Journal is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license. This license allows sharing (copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format) and adapting (remixing, transforming, and creating from the material), provided the corresponding credits are given, and the materials are not used for commercial purposes.

       3. Peer review system

All articles submitted to the Conectividad Journal that pass the first editorial review will be subject to a double-blind peer review and evaluation system by at least two external reviewers outside the Editorial Board through the OJS platform, who will independently rely on an evaluation report and will also make recommendations for the authors. In this modality, the people who evaluate do not know the authors' names of the articles and vice versa; this avoids any possible bias against or in favor of the manuscript and thus ensures the transparency of the process.

After reviewing the article, the reviewers will submit the evaluation report with one of the following results.

• Accepted
• Accepted with revisions
• Rejected

The evaluation described above can take up to 4 weeks.

The editor once received the evaluation by the reviewers will analyze the results and determine if the article is accepted or denied through the OJS platform. 

• If the article is accepted, the author will be notified to make corrections if required and the corresponding editorial process will be continued.
• If the article is denied, the author will be notified and the manuscript will be archived
• In the two previous cases the result of the evaluation of the reviewers and their respective recommendations will be sent

The decision to reject an article is exclusively up to the editors, either due to peers' observations or non-compliance with any of the requirements established by the journal. If the author expresses his desire to reconsider his article and submit it again to the process, the editors will indicate the time that the author must wait to do so.

The OJS Institutional Repository stores all versions of scientific articles, initial, corrected, accepted, and published.

In case of controversy, the final decision is made by the Editorial Committee.

Confidentiality: Conectividad reserves the data of the authors and reviewers, as well as the results and details of the evaluation process, which will only be communicated to the relevant parties involved (authors, evaluators, and editors).

Evaluation time: The evaluation time will depend on several factors, such as the availability of evaluators and the time required for the authors to correct the article. Once the comments have been submitted to the author, the author must send the document within two weeks if there are minor corrections. If the corrections involve restructuring the document, the author will have four weeks to submit the corrected article.

       4. Access and reuse policies

The Conectividad Journal provides free and immediate access to its content. This means that the user can read, download, store, print, search, index, and create links to the full texts, as long as this is done without commercial purposes and the source and the person in charge of its authorship are cited. This Journal is under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license. 

       5. Ethics of the Journal, editorial process, and publication

The Editorial Committee of the Scientific Journal Conectividad is committed to the highest standards of ethics and conduct in editorial practice for disseminating knowledge and ensuring its quality. 

Code of conduct and best practice

       6. Anti-plagiarism

The Conectividad Journal complies with the international standards recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which is available here. It also uses the services of TURNITIN (https://www.turnitin.com/) for plagiarism detection.

       7. Copyright

The originals published in the electronic edition of the journal Conectividad, under first publication rights, are the property of the Instituto Superior Tecnológico Universitario Rumiñahui, Sangolquí, Ecuador, and it is necessary to cite the source in any partial or total reproduction of the published content (texts or images). Conectividad provides open and immediate access to its content, as we firmly believe in public access to knowledge, which does not prevent the citation of the source from being mandatory for anyone who wishes to reproduce content from this journal.

All content is under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license

       8. Deposit Policies (Digital Preservation and Backup Systems)

Conectividad Journal uses Microsoft services for cloud data preservation to ensure a permanent and secure archive. Likewise, a local data backup process is carried out after each published edition, that is, every six months.

The journal belongs to the PKP Preservation Network, which provides preservation for any OJS journal.

Conectividad Journal uses interoperability protocols OAI-PMH https://revista.ister.edu.ec/ojs/index.php/ISTER/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

Address

Main Contact

Editor in chief

revista@ister.edu.ec