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: HELMANTICA 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 HELMANTICA 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

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

HELMANTICA 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

HELMANTICA 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 HELMANTICA 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 HELMANTICA 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.

HELMANTICA 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.

HELMANTICA 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 HELMANTICA are mainly oriented towards the advancement of science in the field of philology.

4. PLAGIO DETECTION POLICY

HELMANTICA 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)