Policies

POLICIES

1. Digital preservation policy

This magazine uses the LOCKSS, CLOCKS and PKP PN  systems to create a file system distributed among collaborating libraries, which allows you to create permanent archives of the magazine for conservation and restoration purposes.
Further: CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA 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) 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 CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA 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

CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA has a Committee of National and International Reviewers of recognized prestige, an International Scientific Committee, experts in the disciplines present in Spanish universities and research centres. The Scientific Committee advises and evaluates the publication, endorsing it scientifically and projecting it internationally. The Editorial Board issues reports, propose themes and evaluates manuscripts. The Scientific Advisory Board submits the manuscripts estimated in the publication for blind evaluation
CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA is a means of publishing various Research Projects, Research Centers and Groups and Universities, not only to publish articles but monographic sections.
CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA 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) and printed in Spanish and English. Post abstracts in the language in which the article is written and in English.

CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA Accepts manuscripts in various languages for evaluation, articles in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and English have now been published.

3.2. Quality of the editorial process

CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA maintains its edition of numbers with a rigorous periodicity from its birth. An annual volume is published on a regular basis. It maintains, in turn, a strict coherence in its editorial line and in the subject of the publication. From volume 71 (2020), the journal is offered in paper and OJS (e-print).

All works published in CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA 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 CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA 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.

CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA 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.

CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA has an Editorial Board, a Scientific Committee and a list of Reviewers. It also has a Director, a Secretariat and the assistance of the staff of the Publications Service and the Bibloteca of the Pontifical University of Salamanca. The institutional and commercial network is thus assured.

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 CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA are mainly oriented towards the advancement of science in the field of philology.

4. PLAGIO DETECTION POLICY

CUADERNOS SALMANTINOS DE FILOSOFÍA is committed to the fight against plagiarism. For it:

- 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 (https://publicationethics.org/files/plagiarism%20A.pdf) and COPE guidelines on Suspected plagiarism in a published paper (https://publicationethics.org/files/plagiarism-published-article-cope-flowchart.pdf).

5. AUTHOR'S FEES

This magazine charges authors the following prices: 0.00 (EUR)

 

6. ERRATA, CORRECTIONS AND RETRATIONS 

Articles and other kinds of documents published in the journal will be kept valid, exact and unaltered as much as possible. However, exceptional circumstances may occur in which a published article needs to be corrected, retracted, or even withdrawn. Such actions will be taken after being carefully considered by the Editorial Team of the journal, with the support of the staff of Publicaciones UPSA, to ensure that they are done with the utmost guarantees and based on the rules set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): : https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.2.1.

In such cases, the norms and mechanisms of control of scientific communication have several main procedures of rectification in accordance with the type, seriousness and consequences of the detected inaccuracy. These can assume the form of a notice of an erratum, a correction, a retraction or, in rare occasions, the removal of an article. The purpose of this mechanism is that changes are transparent and that the integrity of the academic record is always warranted.

 

Errata

Errata will be published when an error or omission made by the journal might affect the publication’s record or the reputation of the authors and/or the journal, but when the academic integrity of the article remains intact.

All errors will be accompanied by a separate notification. The notice must provide clear details of the erratum and the changes made to the document.

In such circumstances:

  1. The article will be corrected.
  2. A final note with the reference to the notice of errata will be included in the article.
  3. Errata will be published separately but linked to the corrected version of the article.
  4. The errata document will be paginated and have a DOI assigned..

 

Corrections

A notice of corrections will be published when an error or omission made by the author needs to be corrected, which otherwise would affect the publication’s record or the reputation of the authors and/or the journal but not the academic integrity of the article.

All errors will be accompanied by a separate notification. The notice must provide clear details of the erratum and the changes made to the document.

In such circumstances:

  1. The article will be corrected.
  2. A final note with the reference to the notification of errata will be included in the article.
  3. Errata will be published separately but linked to the corrected version of the article.
  4. The errata document will be paginated and have a DOI assigned.

 

Retractions

A notice of retractions will be published when a major error invalidates the conclusions of the article or in cases of misconduct in the research and/or publication process. Authors can request a retraction of their articles if any of the following criteria is met:

  • If there is clear evidence that the results are not reliable, whether resulting from misconduct or a mistake.
  • If the findings have been published previously elsewhere without the adequate cross-referencing, license or justification (e.g. in cases of redundant or duplicate publication).
  • If the research constitutes plagiarism.
  • If there is evidence of fraudulent authorship.
  • If the peer review process is proved to have been compromised.
  • If there is evidence of unethical research and infringement of professional ethical codes.

Once the decision to retract an article has been made:

  1. The watermark 'Retracted article' will be added to the published version of the article’s record.
  2. The article’s title will be headed by 'Retracted article: [Title of the article]'.
  3. A separate declaration of retraction will be published, titled 'Retraction: [Title of the article]', which will be linked to the retracted article. The editors of the journal will sign this note.
  4. The declaration of retraction will be paginated and have a DOI assigned.

 

Removal of articles

The removal of an article will only happen on exceptional circumstances when the issues are exceedingly serious to be addressed through a notice of correction or retraction.

This will only happen when:

  • The article is clearly defamatory or violates other legal rights.
  • When the article is subject to a court order.

In the event of an article removal, the metadata (authorship and title) will remain and the text will be substituted by a document that indicates that the article has been removed for legal purposes.