About the Journal
FOCUS AND SCOPE
It is a technical-scientific publication of the INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNOLÓGICO "DE TECNOLOGÍAS APROPIADAS" - INSTA, published since 2018 on an annual basis. It aims to disseminate original articles, reviews, opinions and essays in the areas related to the research lines of the Institution, which are the following:
ARBITRATION SYSTEM
INSTA Magazine is a refereed journal governed by the double anonymous peer review system.
The articles submitted by the authors are previously evaluated by the Editorial Committee to check if their content conforms to the editorial standards and the thematic areas of the journal.
When the article passes the first filter, it is sent to two external evaluators who are experts in the subject matter addressed by the author. In order to comply with and defend the ethics of the research, the evaluators are always external to the institution to which the author belongs and are in charge of deciding whether the article meets the scientific interests of the journal and whether it should be published. The evaluators will decide: publishable, publishable with minor modifications, publishable with major modifications or not publishable. In the event of a difference of opinion between reviewers, the Scientific Committee will request the review of a third expert, who will resolve the conflict of opinion.
FREQUENCY
INSTA MAGAZINE publications are published every January on an annual basis, however, the reception of articles is continuous, articles can be updated and entered at any time.
OPEN ACCESS POLICIES
Authors who publish in INSTA MAGAZINE are aware of and accept the following conditions:
- Authors retain the copy rights (copyright) and assign to the journal the right of first publication of the work, under Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows third parties to use what is published as long as they make reference to the author(s) of the work and its publication in this journal.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right to publish the manuscript through whatever channels it deems appropriate.
Authors are authorized to disseminate their work electronically once the manuscript is accepted for publication.
DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICIES
The contents of INSTA MAGAZINE have enabled the digital preservation system in LOCKSS through OJS. In addition, the Instituto Superior Tecnológico de Tecnologías Apropiadas INSTA will perform an annual backup of the contents in digital storage devices.
CODES OF ETHICS
INSTA MAGAZINE will ensure that the contents to be published are in accordance with the ethical standards of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), these standards will be applied to editors, reviewers and authors.
PLAGIARISM DETECTION
To deal with a case of plagiarism, INSTA Magazine follows the guidelines included in the International Committee on Publication Ethics-COPE (https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts-new/what-do-if-you-suspect-plagiarism).
In case of possible plagiarism in a published article COPE mentions:
- The person who notifies us of a plagiarism situation will be informed of the process to be followed.
- The articles are compared to check the degree of plagiarism.
- The editor will be informed and asked to comment on the matter.
The submitting author of the article in question will be sent documentary evidence of the plagiarism case and will be asked for a response. If the authors are found guilty of plagiarism, the following procedure will be followed:
-The online version of the article will be withdrawn
-The journal will not publish any other article by the authors involved in the plagiarism for a period of 5 years.
