Open Access Policies
Open Access Policy
Diá-logos journal adheres to the different initiatives that promote free access to knowledge. Therefore, all Diá-logos articles are free and open access and are published under an Attribution – Non-commercial – No Derivatives License, allowing others to download the works and share them with other people, as long as their authorship is recognized, but they cannot be changed in any way or used commercially. As an Open Access journal, available in free access (open Access) without time restrictions, it is included in the DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals.
The articles published in the Journal are shared in the institutional repository and on the Publisher's website.
The documents published in Diá-logos Journal are subject to the following terms:
1.1. The Don Bosco University Publishing House retains the property rights (copyright) of the published works, and encourages and allows their reuse under the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 license, which means that they can be copied, used, distributed, transmitted and publicly displayed, provided that:
1.1.a. The authorship and original source of their publication (journal, publisher, URL and DOI of the work) are cited.
1.1.b. They are not used for commercial or onerous purposes.
1.1.c. The existence and specifications of this license of use are mentioned.
1.1.d If you remix, transform or build on the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
1.2. The journal will grant each article a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
The Diá-logos Journal allows authors to reuse published articles; that is, the final version after peer review or the editor's PDF version for non-commercial purposes, including its deposit in institutional, thematic repositories or personal web pages.
Readers have the right to read all our articles for free after their publication. No article will have an economic charge for the publication or for access to it.
The journal uses different national and international repositories where the publication is hosted, such as Dialnet, Latindex, Camjol, Biblat, ASCI, etc., the institutional repository, the website of the Publisher and the OJS Portal of the journal where they are digitally archived and indexing is ensured.
The full text, metadata and citations of the articles can be tracked and accessed with permission. The readability of the files and their metadata is also allowed, promoting interoperability under the OAI-PMH protocol of open data and open source. The archives, both of the complete publications and their segmentation by articles, are available in open format in HTML, XML, PDF, and EPub, which facilitates reading them on any device and computer platform.
Diá-logos does not charge for publishing. There are no fees or payments from authors or readers. Access to its content is completely free. The processing of manuscripts and publication materials are sponsored by the Editorial de la Universidad Don Bosco. Authors are exempt from any type of payment.
Self-archiving
The Diá-logos journal invites authors who publish to share their articles on their personal websites, social networks, institutional repositories, academic networks and profiles such as Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchID, etc., both before and after their publication in this journal, as long as they provide bibliographic information that accredits, if applicable, their publication in it.
