Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

The journal Conectividad does not charge its authors any fees for article submission or processing (Article Processing Charge - APC). Its publication is open access, and the content is freely available through its website: https://revista.ister.edu.ec/ojs/index.php/ISTER

To reinforce our open access policy, Conectividad is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits sharing (copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format) and adapting (remixing, transforming, and building upon the material), provided appropriate credit is given and the material is not used for commercial purposes.

Conectividad is a scientific journal that follows the American Psychological Association (APA) publication standards and employs a double-blind peer review system.

Access and Reuse Policies

The journal Conectividad provides immediate and free access to its content. This means users may read, download, store, print, search, index, and link to full texts as long as this is done for non-commercial purposes and the original source and authorship are properly cited. This journal operates under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

The journal does not charge any fees for submitting or evaluating received scientific articles.

Copyright

The originals published in the electronic edition of Conectividad, under first publication rights, are the property of the Instituto Superior Tecnológico Universitario Rumiñahui, Sangolquí, Ecuador. It is mandatory to cite the source when reproducing partially or entirely any published content (texts or images). Conectividad provides open and immediate access to its content, firmly believing in public access to knowledge, without waiving the obligation to cite the source for anyone wishing to reproduce content from this journal.

Archiving

The journal Conectividad uses Microsoft cloud services for information preservation to guarantee a permanent and secure archive. Likewise, a local backup process is performed after each published issue, i.e., every six months.

The Conectividad website, based on Open Journal Systems, is compatible with the LOCKSS system (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), ensuring a permanent and secure archive for the journal. LOCKSS has been enabled to store and distribute the journal’s content through collaborating libraries via the LOCKSS Editorial Manifest Page.

Additionally, the CLOCKSS system (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) has been implemented to guarantee a permanent and secure archive for the journal. CLOCKSS therefore allows storing and distributing the Conectividad journal’s content to participating libraries through the CLOCKSS Editorial Manifest Page.

The journal is a member of the PKP Preservation Network, which provides preservation for any OJS journal.

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