Editorial and Open Access Policies

Open Access Policy

Revista de Investigaciones en Energía, Medio Ambiente y Tecnología (RIEMAT), provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle of offering the public free access to research, which helps a greater global exchange of knowledge. In addition to this, all RIEMAT journal content is under the Creative Commons License, and adheres to an open access policy, which means that all content is freely available to users and their institutions. This allows:

  • Read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of articles,
  • No need to request prior permission from the publisher or the author,
  • Provided that the terms of the license applied to each item are respected.

License of use

All articles published in RIEMAT are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This implies that:

  • Attribution (BY): Users must give proper credit to the original authors, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made.
  • Non Commercial (NC): The material may not be used for commercial purposes.
  • Share Alike (SA): If the content is modified or transformed, it must be distributed under the same license as the original.

This license encourages the dissemination of knowledge and guarantees at the same time the acknowledgement of authorship, non-commercial use and the preservation of the same terms in any derivative use.

 

 

RIEMAT Journal

Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

 

Interoperability Protocol

All publications of the journal portal of the Universidad Técnica de Manabí incorporate interoperability protocols that allow their contents to be harvested by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters.

The Revista de Investigaciones en Energía, Medio Ambiente y Tecnología (RIEMAT), published through OJS (Open Journal Systems) version 3.2.1.4, incorporates the interoperability protocol OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), which allows structured access to the metadata of its articles.

Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0.

Metadata formats: Dublin Core; MARC; MARC21; RFC1807.

Path for harvesters: https://revistas.utm.edu.ec/index.php/Riemat/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

 Inbreeding in Publication

The editorial body, in its publication policies, has decided to minimize inbreeding within the Journal of Research in Energy, Environment and Technology (RIEMAT), by considering a proportion of 80% of articles from external affiliation to the Technical University of Manabí; that is, only 20% of internal research will be accepted in its publications, for each published issue.

Advertising Policy 

Revista RIEMAT does not include advertising of any kind or political propaganda, therefore, no advertisements are placed on the website, in the articles, or in its social networks. Only icons belonging to the journal or to the indexing achieved are placed.