Editorial process

KJ – Knowledge Journal's editorial process is divided into four stages:

Stage 1. Article submission

  • Check the journal's Author Guidelines;
  • Submit an article type accepted by the journal;
  • Submit an article in line with the journal's publication areas;
  • Use the recommended bibliographic style.

Stage 2. Editorial validation

Once the articles have been submitted, they initially go through a screening process carried out by the Journal's Editor-in-Chief. 

Stage 3. Peer Review

Once the article has been validated, it is sent to two national and/or international expert reviewers who are experts in the field of the article. 

Stage 4. Publishing the article

Before the article is published, there may be changes requested by the team of reviewers. Authors will have 2 weeks to make these changes.

Once validated by the editorial team, the article goes to the Editor-in-Chief, Editing and Publishing for final validation. 

PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPARENCY AND BEST PRACTICE IN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING

 

Open access and authorship policy

KJ – Knowledge Journal offers immediate open access to its content, in the belief that making this information available to the public favours a greater exchange of global knowledge.

In this sense, the journal follows the DOAJ's definition of open access: "We define them as journals in which the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants the rights of use to third parties through an open licence (Creative Commons or equivalent) that allows immediate free access to the work and allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data for software or use them for any other lawful purpose."

KJ – Knowledge Journal adheres to different initiatives that promote open access to knowledge, such as the cOAlition S Plan, or the principles of the communication infrastructure for scholarly publishing and open science AmeliCA. Consequently, all the contents of KJ – Knowledge Journal are open access and published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license CC BY-NC-ND.

Authors who publish in Riage Journal therefore accept the following conditions:

  • The authors retain the copyright, assigning KJ – Knowledge Journal the right of first publication, with the work registered under the Creative Commons attribution license (which allows third parties to use what is published as long as they mention the authorship of the work and the first publication in this journal).
  • Authors can make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in the KJ – Knowledge Journal(for example, by publishing it in a book or an institutional repository), as long as it is clearly indicated that the work was first published in the KJ – Knowledge Journal.
  • Authors are authorised, and even encouraged, to publish their work on the Internet (institutional pages, personal pages, social networks, etc.), as this can facilitate exchanges.
  • Authors are authorised, and even encouraged, to deposit supplementary material, at least the research data underlying the publications, in institutional or thematic open access repositories federated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
  • KJ – Knowledge Journal does not charge authors any article processing charges (APC) to publish their work.

ARCHIVE AND INTEROPERABILITY POLICY ARCHIVE

KJ – Knowledge Journal follows preservation practices in order to guarantee permanent accessibility to its digital resources and objects, in accordance with the recommendations established by UNESCO (2014) and the Digital Preservation Handbook (Digital Preservation Coalition), including:

  • Local preservation on servers and in-house storage: Backing up on servers and periodic monthly archiving in local mode.
  • Preservation through external repositories and services: Hosting full texts in external repositories, services and systems, such as Dialnet, among others.
  • Digital preservation services: Use of the LOCKSS system to authorise preservation on external servers via an archive distributed by the libraries, allowing them to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.

Interoperability

The journal incorporates the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol, which enables the transfer of digital resources, mainly of a scientific nature and open access.

In addition, the following processes are carried out to guarantee the preservation and maintain the long-term accessibility of its digital objects:

  • Preservation metadata: KJ – Knowledge Journal uses quality metadata using DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative), MARC, MODS and OpenURL.
  • Persistent identifiers: All the articles in the journal have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
  • KJ – Knowledge Journal is a member of Crossref.
  • File integrity checks: File integrity checks are carried out periodically using the tools available on the server where the journal is hosted.

SELF-ARCHIVING POLICY

KJ – Knowledge Journal allows and encourages authors to extend the visibility, reach and impact of their articles published in the journal by republishing (self-archiving) them on:

  • Their personal web spaces (web, blog, social networks, scientific forums, etc.).
  • Open institutional archives (university archives, Europeana, etc.).
  • Academic and scientific social networks (ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Getcited.org, etc.).
  • It is necessary to detail all the bibliographic data of the publication.