Editorial policies
Summary
Focus and scope
Section policies
Access and reuse policies
Interoperability policy
Digital preservation policy
artificial intelligence usage policy
FOCUS AND SCOPE:
Ethos Journal is the organ for the dissemination of publications of recognized scientific and humanistic impact, national and international, sponsored by the Alonso de Ojeda University, whose purpose is to disseminate works in various modalities: articles, essays, reviews, among others, whose contributions are a necessary way to consolidate research and transmission of knowledge in the field of sciences: Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, Philosophy, Engineering, Education, Law, Management, New Technologies and other areas related to factual and formal sciences.
The journal is aimed at the academic and scientific community of the human and social sciences and at those who are interested in delving deeper into the national and international topics, debates and experiences that are the protagonists of our regions, subjects and their socio-cultural transformations. Ethos Journal is refereed by experts with extensive experience in their respective areas of research, under the double-blind system, which guarantees the strict confidentiality inherent to the evaluation and opinion process.
SECTION POLICIES:
ARTICLES
Open Submissions Indexed Peer Reviewed
ESSAYS
Open Submissions Indexed Peer Reviewed
REVIEWS
Open Submissions Indexed Peer Reviewed
REVIEWS
Open Submissions Indexed Peer Reviewed
INTERVIEW
Open Submissions Indexed Peer Reviewed
ACCESS AND REUSE POLICIES
This journal provides open access to its content, which helps greater global exchange of knowledge. In this sense, all publications (both for authors and readers) of Ethos Journal are free of fees or any economic cost.
Regarding copyright, the authors assign the rights to Ethos Journal, with the purpose of sharing, distributing, executing and publicly communicating the articles, for non-commercial purposes and under the Creative Commons 4.0 license (BY-NC-SA ).
it mean:
(BY) Attribution - You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in such a way as to suggest that you or your use are endorsed by the licensor.
(NC) NonCommercial - You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
(SA) ShareAlike - If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contribution under the same license as the original.
Source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
INTEROPERABILITY POLICY
All Ethos Journal publications incorporate interoperability protocols that allow their content to be collected by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories. The journal is published in OJS (Open Journals System 3.3.0.15), which is a system that incorporates the OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol, with the possibility of obtaining different formats for the metadata. .
Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0
Metadata format: Dublin Core
DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICY
Ethos Journal secures the intellectual content of electronic documents, for long periods of time, through digital preservation methods to safeguard digital resources, maintaining their attributes such as integrity, authenticity, inalterability, originality, reliability and accessibility.
The Alonso de Ojeda University guarantees the recording of the digital content of the Journal and copies it (rejuvenation) weekly, on institutional servers and the private hosting provider, through the GIT control system, which allows storing an initial version of each file and keeping a record of any differences that may occur over time. The preservation procedure is as follows:
- Storage of digital content in formats such as Word, XML, HTML, PDF and tar.gz to guarantee future conversions.
- Information encapsulation
- Evaluation: data consistency check, migration and emulation
- Self-documentation: coding of information
- Self-sufficiency: minimizing system, data and documentation dependencies
OJS 3.3.0.15 allows the CLOCKSS system to store, preserve and distribute the journal's content through its publishing manifest, available at:
https://revistaethos.uniojeda.edu.ve/index.php/RevistaEthos/gateway/lockss
Likewise, the OJS includes the LOCKSS digital preservation system, in the PKP PNL network that also guarantees the storage, preservation and distribution of the journal's content through its publication manifest.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE USAGE POLICY
Ethos Journal aligns itself with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Heredia Declaration, which recognize the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in research processes as a support tool whose use must be evidenced and made transparent for a clear, traceable, and reproducible exercise of knowledge. Among the aspects considered in the Heredia Declaration regarding the different roles in the editorial process are:
Authorship
The role of authorship is exclusive to human beings, who create, make decisions, and assume responsibility for the works generated. AI tools (language models, chatbots, generative AI) cannot be listed as authors or co-authors, since they do not fully assume these responsibilities, nor are they responsible for the existence or absence of conflicts of interest, nor do they manage copyright or usage licenses for the works.
Authors must explicitly declare whether or not they use AI in their research and scientific writing processes at any stage of the scientific publication process. Failure to do so may result in the rejection or retraction of the publication.
If AI is used, the declaration must be included at the end of the document, specifying:
- The AI model used, its version, and the date of use.
- Specific tasks performed in each section of the document with human review: improving writing, grammar correction, style, text translation, generation of images, tables, graphs, and any other resources.
- Methods for verifying and validating the results generated by the AI, as well as the authors responsible for this process: data, citations, tables, translations, etc.
Authors are responsible for any violation of editorial ethics; therefore, they must ensure that the use of AI does not infringe on the rights of third parties or violate licenses or terms of service.
Review
The responsibility for the criteria used to recommend or not the publication of a scientific text—or to propose corrections and improvements—lies with the reviewer. Interaction with AI does not replace their expert judgment or accountability.
When AI has been incorporated as a complement to the review process, it is necessary to inform the editorial team and, through them, the authors. Indicating, at a minimum, the model name, version, date of use, and the evaluation instructions is part of a transparent and traceable content evaluation process.
Reviewers must be able to explain their interaction with AI, what input they received, and how much of that input was considered in the observations, comments, recommendations, and correction requests they issued as evaluation criteria for the scientific text.
Editing
The editor and the editorial team are responsible for the editing process. The use of AI should not replace human responsibility or accountability when performing editing tasks or monitoring the actions of reviewers and authors. The editing of scientific texts should not depend on the use of AI.
Editors will provide evidence when they have used AI at any point in the editorial process. The model name, version, date of use, and assigned task will be reported.
Prevention strategies will be established to avoid the spread of bias, misinformation, or situations where respect for or ethical handling of personal data cannot be guaranteed. Furthermore, the use of open, high-quality, reliable data, supported by consent or authorizations that allow AI to make legitimate use of such information, will be promoted.
Authors and readers will be informed when, in the interest of transparency, editorial or review tasks have relied on the use of AI.
NOTE: Authors, reviewers, and editors are solely responsible for reviewing, verifying, and correcting any AI-generated results to avoid bias, errors, or falsehoods. Maintaining objectivity and editorial quality is recommended
