About the Journal
Ogigia is double blind peer review journal, open to researchers that want to share their work, as long as they adapt to the theme of any of the blocks of the journal:
- Language and literature: linguistic and literary studies, grammatical studies, literature theory and comparative literature ...
- Didactics: theoretical studies in the teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language, as well as, research studies on Didactics of Spanish Language and Literature at any academic level. Extraordinarily, articles about experiences in the classroom will be accepted.
The main objective is to study the different aspects of Spanish and Latin American language and literature. Articles related to research about the Hispanic world that contribute to its knowledge outside the non-Spanish speaking countries will be prioritaires. The articles of local character or too specific are outside the scope of action of the journal.
In order to achieve its objective, Ogigia relies on the Internet, an environment conducive to the rapid dissemination of scientific studies, always seeking quality in its publications. Greater diffusion should not mean loss of quality.
The members of the Editorial Team will publish articles that have received a positive evaluation in the blind evaluation process. At least 75% of the articles published in Ogigia will be by authors with no relation to member of the Editorial Team.
Ogigia. Revista electrónica de estudios hispánicos does not have either article submission charges or article processing charges. Articles published in Ogigia may be included in thematic or institutional repositories immediately after their publication as long as the text is not modified and the place where it is published is clearly stated.
Institutional affiliation
This journal is owned by the University of Valladolid (Spain), which provides its digital hosting and is responsible for its maintenance and management through Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid (EdUVa) and the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC). The University of Valladolid guarantees open access to the contents of the journal. The works published in the journal will be included in the Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Valladolid, guaranteeing their long-term preservation.
Peer Review Process (Double Blind):
The evaluation is carried out by EXTERNAL EVALUATORS, outside the Publishing Entity.
Articles which do not comply with all the requisites established in the "Author Guidelines" will be returned to the authors for their eventual correction. Articles which comply with all the requisites will be subject to a double process of evaluation: At first, the Editorial Board will make a selection from the texts received, valuing if they meet the applicable requirements associated to quality academic publications. In a second moment, articles that have passed the first selection will be submitted to two experts in the field for a blind examination.
In order to maintain anonymity, authors are requested to refrain from referring to themselves in the first person. Should the evaluations be contradictory, the Editorial Board would request a third evaluation and then decide whether to publish the article. The decision of the Editorial Board is final and the authors will be informed of the decision within a maximum of six months following the reception of the paper (the evaluators' leave time will not be included in this six-months period). Authors are kindly asked not to submit their article to another journal until they have received the results of the evaluation.
Articles with two positive reports will be sent to the authors to make the corrections suggested by the evaluators. The authors have a maximum period of one month to return articles which will be published when they are corrected.
The evaluation process is described in more detail in the "Submissions" section.
Provided the reviewers have no objection, every three years a list shall be published, in alphabetical order, of those who have participated in drafting the reports for all of the articles received in that period.
Publication Frequency:
Ogigia. Revista electrónica de estudios hispánicos is a biannual publication.
Open Access Policy and Copyright Notice:
This journal enables free and immediate access to its content to foster global knowledge.
The articles published at Ogigia. Revista Electrónica de Estudios Hispánicos will have a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
The authors continue as owners of their works, and can republish their articles in another medium without having to request authorization, as long as they indicate that the work was originally published in Ogigia. Revista Electrónica de Estudios Hispánicos. It is also recommended to disseminate the published work through the Internet (for example: in institutional repositories, personal web pages or social networks) once the manuscript is published, which can lead to interesting exchanges and increase citations.
Code of Conduct
The journal will comply with the ethical code established in the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines, which adheres to the principles proposed by the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE). This guide establishes the ethical way of proceeding by authors, editorial committees and reviewers, the content of which is summarized below:
- Authors
Authors of articles must undertake to conduct their research in an ethical and responsible manner, in compliance with prevailing legislation and the aspects included in section 1 of the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines. Work shall be original and unpublished, and shall be duly attributed to those who have prepared it, avoiding plagiarism (misappropriation of others' work or ideas), self-plagiarism (taking advantage of ideas or previous works of one's own authorship without citing the source) and multiple or redundant publication of the same work. Clear reference should be made to the sources used and to previous papers on the same subject matter, explaining the origin of the data and ideas, of the literal quotations or of other resources (such as graphs, images, tables, etc.). Failure to comply with these aspects may lead to the public disavowal of the articles, as explained in section 2. 2 of the aforementioned guide.
Information from private conversations or discussions with others in academia or science may not be used without their explicit permission. If images or graphics that are not originally from the author are included in the work, they must have express permission to use them and cite the authorship appropriately.
Woks that are being evaluated in whole or in part by another publisher cannot be submitted. Once submitted to Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, the originals cannot be sent to another journal or publisher until the evaluation process has been completed.
- Editorial committee
The members of the editorial committee must ensure the quality of the publications, promoting good practices in research, trying to avoid malpractice and trying to speed up the publication processes.
The evaluation process must be managed fairly and impartially, respecting the thinking of those who have written the work and guaranteeing them the right to disagree with the evaluation reports.
It is the responsibility of the editorial committee to manage the evaluation process of publications fairly and impartially, respecting the thinking of authors and guaranteeing them the right to disagree with the evaluation reports.
Members of the editorial committees must respect the confidentiality of the articles and their contents until the time of publication and may not use the data in the work for their own research, unless they have the express permission of the authors.
The editorial committees may consider the refusal of authors to have their work evaluated by certain persons, evaluating whether the reasons provided are justified, but they are not obliged to dispense with the use of these persons.
The editorial committees shall recognise the work of the reviewers, issuing, where appropriate, the corresponding accreditations to those who have adequately carried out their work.
The editorial committee must try to avoid malpractice in research (redundant publication, plagiarism or selfplagiarism, omission of cited sources, invented, misrepresented, manipulated or unauthorised use of data ...). Where instances of research malpractice are noted in manuscripts received, the author will be invited to correct them if the misuse affects a small part of the article, and the manuscript will be rejected if it affects a substantial part.
If malpractice is discovered after publication, the editorial committee will request clarifications from the author and, after evaluating their explanations, will make a decision on the matter. If only part of the work contains errors, this can be resolved by publishing an erratum. If the malpractice affects a substantial part of the article, it must be retracted, in accordance with the procedure described in section 2. 2 of the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines.
Likewise, the editorial committee will try to resolve any possible conflicts of interest described in section 2. 4 of the aforementioned guide.
- Reviewer/s
Reviewers must refrain from reviewing the works if they had any relationship with the authors that would advise against it, as explained in section 3 of the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines.
The work of reviewers must be confidential, both during the evaluation process and after the eventual publication of the evaluated work. Reviewers will not be able to use the evaluated content for their own personal benefit or that of other people, and they must respect the opinions and intellectual position of those who have written the articles, judging the work objectively and impartially, arguing their judgements appropriately, showing respect, constructively correcting possible errors and providing suggestions for improvement with regard to the contents, formal presentation, writing and bibliography used in the work.
In the event that any malpractice is detected in the work reviewed, reviewers must notify the editorial committees so that their members can take the corresponding decisions.
Reviewers are required to submit their reports within the agreed time. If they are unable to complete their task on time, or if they do not consider themselves capable of evaluating the work, they should inform the members of the editorial committees as soon as possible.
Good editorial practices on gender equality
The journal Ogigia. Revista electrónica de estudios hispánicos is committed to promoting gender equality, by ensuring balance gender representation in its different boards and committees (editorial, managing, and scientific), considered jointly. It will also ensure that gender representation among the reviewers of the submissions is balanced.
The journal includes the full name of the authors of the works it publishes.
In accordance with the principle of gender equality, the journal uses inclusive language and encourages its use by authors. It recommends replacing the use of the generic masculine with non-discriminatory terms (such as collective nouns or gender-neutral adjectives), avoid expressions that perpetuate gender stereotypes and implement strategies aimed at favoring the most inclusive form of language. Authors are advised to follow the guidelines for the use of gender-inclusive language established by the United Nations.
When writing research works, authors must avoid gender biases whereby the masculine is used as a universal reference. They are advised to consult the European Union toolkit Gender in research and, where appropriate, provide information about the sex variable in research concerning persons, presenting the results disaggregated by sex.
Where relevant, article reviewers should assess whether studies include a sex- and/or gender-disaggregated analysis, and whether they address their importance in research planning and discussion, outcomes, and limitations.
Privacy Statement:
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by this journal (namely, those relating the processing of manuscripts submitted for publication, their evaluating process, or the distribution of information concerning the published works) and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Under REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), users can exercise their rights to request access to, and to rectification and erasure (right to be forgotten) of their personal information, restriction of and/or objection to data processing and portability, as well as not to transfer and/ or share your information with third parties individually.
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and preservation of digital files
A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) will be assigned to the articles published in the journal. The articles will also be housed in the Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Valladolid and in other databases, and will be archived by the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC).
Plagiarism prevention tool
The journal will ensure compliance with good research practices established in the "Ethical Code of Conduct". Authors are advised to avoid plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or multiple or redundant publication. The external evaluators are requested to inform the journal of any cases of malpractice they detect. All articles received will be subjected to a plagiarism detection tool provided by the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC), and will proceed accordingly in the cases of plagiarism detected.
File
This magazine uses the LOCKSS system to create a file system distributed among collaborating libraries, which allows creating permanent archives of the journal for conservation and restoration purposes.
Interoperability protocol
The journal has an OAI-PMH interface (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that enables databases or information services to access the metadata of published works. Path to obtain the metadata: https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/ogigia/oai?verb=Identify
Presence in repositories and databases
Ogigia appears in the following repositories and databases:
Scopus, ESCI. Thomson Reuters-Web of Science (WoS), Q2 índice JCI JCR Web of Science, ANVUR, MLA-Modern Language Association Database, IBZ Online, LATINDEX (catálogo, 32 criterios),DIALNET (Q1), DOAJ, ISOC, INTUTE, ECI.
Indications and resources for the analysis of the quality of scientific journals:
FECYT 2022 Quality Seal and mention in good editorial practices in gender equality y mención en buenas prácticas editoriales en igualdad de género.
Ogigia is present in Google Scholar. ERIH-Plus, MIAR,Q2 Ranking REDIB, CIRC, DICE, RESH, e-REVISTAS
Social networks
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It is recommended to post the published work through the Internet (for example: in institutional repositories, personal web pages or social networks) once the manuscript is published, which can lead to interesting exchanges and increase citations.
FINANCING SOURCES
Ogigia does not receive any external funding or financial assistance. The edition is possible thanks to the support of Ediciones UVa. All the people involved in the editorial process carry out their work selflessly.