Journal Policies

• Copyright Policy
• Open Access Policy (Licensing)
• Antiplagiarism Policy
• Diffusion and Promotion Policy
• Self-archiving (Repository Policy)
• Interoperability Protocol (OAI-PHM) 
• Digital Preservation Policy

Copyright Policy

Authors who publish in the VinculaTégica EFAN journal agree to the following Copyright Notice:

a). Authors keep copyright and give the journal the right of the first publication of the work under a Creative Commons attribution license. This license allows others to share the work as long as original authorship and initial publication in this journal is acknowledged.

b). Authors may make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (e.g., include it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book) as long as they clearly indicate that the work was published for the first time in this journal.

c). Authors are allowed to self-archive their work in institutional repositories or on their own website before and during the submission process, as this may encourage productive exchanges and increase early and overall citation of the published work,

Open Access Policy (Licensing)

The journal VinculaTégica Efan adheres to an open access policy through the Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), with the aim of promoting the dissemination and exchange of knowledge and strengthening the impact of research, placing them in the scientific and general community, which are a pillar for the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.

This policy implies that the works published in the journal are open access, which means that they are available for anyone interested in reading, downloading, printing, sharing, and reusing them, as long as the respective authorship rights are attributed to whom they correspond.

The Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows authors to retain the copyright of their works while authorizing unrestricted online distribution and dissemination. The license also allows the reuse of published works, as long as the source is cited correctly and the license terms are respected.

Antiplagiarism Policy

The journal VinculaTégica Efan establishes as an indispensable requirement that the research papers submitted must be unpublished and original. Under no circumstances will papers that have been partially or totally published in other dissemination spaces be accepted. Likewise, the works must not be simultaneously evaluated in other editorial processes.

To this end, the Anti-plagiarism Policy must contain the following guidelines:

1. The submitted papers must be previously reviewed in Turnitin.
2. The editorial committee will provide authors with access to the Turnitin platform to run the similarity test.
3. Any paper with more than 20% similarity will not be submitted for peer review.
4. Those papers that meet this requirement should be submitted and will be evaluated by a referee committee (blind peer review process), and the notification of the result of the arbitration will be sent via email.
5. The originality report must be uploaded to the OJS platform.

Diffusion and Promotion Policy

The Journal VinculaTégica Efan seeks to ensure a wide and effective dissemination and promotion of the published works, in order to reach a broad and diverse audience that includes researchers, professors, professionals, and the general public, this through promotion by disseminating news and publications on social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

On the other hand, the journal is promoted through the website of the School of Public Accounting and Administration and the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, as well as other relevant digital platforms in the academic and scientific field.

Likewise, the participation and collaboration of authors and collaborators in the dissemination and promotion of published works are encouraged, therefore, they are invited to share on their social networks and other relevant media, the articles they published, always remembering to share the DOI link.

Self-archiving (Repository Policy)

Authors that publish in VinculaTégica EFAN Journal have the right to deposit all versions of their articles in an open-access institutional or thematic repository. The versions allowed for self-archiving include:

1. Preprint: Version of the article before peer review.
2. Accepted Manuscript: Version of the article that has been revised and accepted by the author, after peer review.
3. Published Article (Version of Record): Final version as published.

No embargo may be applied to the self-archiving of these versions. All articles must be immediately available for consultation in the repository without access restrictions.

Interoperability Protocol (OAI-PMH)

1. Access to the OAI-PMH Protocol: Vinculategica Journal provides access to the OAI-PMH protocol through its public web interface. The base access point for the OAI-PMH protocol is Vinculategica OAI.
2. Metadata format: Vinculategica Journal supports the Dublin Core (oai_dc) metadata format for harvesting via the OAI-PMH protocol. Metadata in Dublin Core format contains basic information about articles published in the journal, including titles, authors, abstracts, and links to full text.
3. Update frequency. Vinculategica journal updates its metadata through the OAI-PMH protocol on a regular schedule. The update frequency may vary depending on the journal's needs and available resources.
4. Identification of deleted records: If records are deleted from the journal, the status element in the Dublin Core metadata will be used to identify the deleted records. The value of this element will be changed to "deleted" to indicate that the record has been removed and is no longer available for harvesting.

Digital Preservation Policy

The VinculaTégica Efan journal is committed to preserving its content through the use of the PKP Preservation Network (PN) CLOCKSS and LOCKSS licenses, with the aim of guaranteeing the availability and accessibility of its content in the long term, even in the event that the online platform suffers some kind of interruption or failure.

These licenses are a digital content archiving system that allows for secure, permanent, and geographically distributed backups. This policy applies to all works published in the journal.

This digital preservation policy seeks to ensure that the journal's content is available in the long term so that it is accessible to future generations of researchers and scholars. It also ensures that authors of papers published in the journal retain their copyright and that their work can be retrieved and used in the future.

PKP Preservation Network (PN)

The PKP Preservation Network provides free preservation services for any OJS journal that meets the basic criteria. In this regard, for digital preservation, Vinculategica EFAN articles are archived in LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), thus guaranteeing the journal a permanent and secure archive.

LOCKSS

CLOCKKS

Additional Information

In case of any doubt or question related to any of the journal's policies or licenses, authors may contact the journal at any time:

Tel. +52 (81) 8329.4080 ext. 1956, 1962 and 1963, Direct Tel. +52 (81) 1340.4431

e-mail: vinculategica.efan@uanl.mx