Copyright and Publication Ethics
PUBLICATION ETHICS
Digital Preservation Policy
RIEMAT uses a digital preservation system that ensures that all intellectual content, as well as electronic files and documents uploaded to the platform, remain for a long period of time, ensuring accessibility, integrity, originality and authenticity, reliability. Likewise, the authors maintain unrestricted rights over their works.
The journal provides backup and digital preservation services. In both cases, redundancy algorithms are used to check what data and information is kept, as well as the format in which they have been recorded.
In the first case, it is a mechanism that protects against the unforeseen breakdown of digital assets (disk rupture, damage to pre-set servers, loss of material due to exceptional or unpredictable situations, etc.) and basically backs up all kinds of information present on the servers, guaranteeing its integrity in a systematic way.
On the other hand, digital preservation controls and backs up high quality digital resources that may be needed in the future.
RIEMAT establishes a digital preservation policy based on the principles of commitment and responsibility towards every profile involved in the management of the editorial process. Therefore, the journal defines the following points of the policy:
The journal carefully stores digital resources.
The journal applies preservation strategies (data migration, technology preservation and digital archeology, periodic and systematic monitoring of technology efficiency).
Codification of data and preserved information (without reference to external documentation) and relative self-documentation.
The journal strongly limits dependence on data, systems or documentation.
The journal performs preserved data encapsulation and descriptive metadata encapsulation processes.
Finally, RIEMAT participates in different international repositories, such as Google Scholar, RERCIE and RESEARCHBIB.
Intellectual property policy
- Implement the anti-plagiarism policy in the works received, through the use of specialized computer programs, routinely and especially when there are suspicions of plagiarism.
- Support authors whose copyrights have been violated or who have been victims of plagiarism.
The RIEMAT journal uses a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This license allows others to share, copy, distribute, publicly communicate, and adapt the content of the journal, provided that proper credit is given to the authors, it is not used for commercial purposes, and derivative works are distributed under the same license.
For more information on the use of content, see the Open Access Policy and Interoperability Protocol.
The authors by means of a document, letter of acceptance of the rules of publication certify that the article submitted for possible publication in the RIEMAT journal, is an original article and does not contain elements limited, classified, subject to patent, nor in the process of publication, nor published in any other editorial space, in any language. The authors are responsible for the content of the article and declare that they have no commercial association that could generate conflicts of interest in relation to it. The accompanying figures and illustrations faithfully represent the facts reported and have not been digitally altered. All data and references to materials already published are duly identified and included in the References.
This document, letter of acceptance of publication standards, should be sent in original or scanned form as part of the documentation attached to the article.
Journal options for post-publication discussions and corrections
All corrections to be implemented in a post-publication research, once communicated by the authors, the general editor communicates what needs to be rectified to the style editor who is in charge of implementing the requested changes in the document. After this, the general editor updates the file in the journal's web platform (Open Journal Systems).
Policies on authorship and contribution
RIEMAT Journal cordially requests authors to place in their manuscripts the information pertaining to authorship and equal contribution in the elaboration of the research.
How will the journal handle complaints and appeals?
If there is any type of claim or appeal about an editorial decision, RIEMAT will deal with the case within the editorial committee, if after this there is a judicial appeal then the journal will deal with the case with the legal department of the institution that maintains the journal which is the Technical University of Manabi.
Conflict of interest policies
Revista RIEMAT cordially requests its authors to specify in their submission that there is no conflict of interest in terms of kinship, familiarity or friendship with the general editor or any person on the editorial board.
Data exchange and reproducibility policies
Revista RIEMAT is committed to the open science ecosystem, this is reflected in all published research, which as well as its data are available in open access, thus contributing to the growth in number and quality of open scientific publications. As for the exchange of information, the only publicly available data are those pertaining to the editorial board, and the names and contact details of the authors, RIEMAT does not sell any data to third parties.
Ethical Policy
RIEMAT adheres to the ethical standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and to the principles of transparency and best practices of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA):
