Focus and Scope

The Journal publishes original articles on research, essays, systematization of professional experiences, methodologies and good practices, as well as policy analysis, interviews with national and foreign colleagues, historical analysis, critical reviews of books and theses, information about conferences, seminars and activities academic and professional associations, and debates on topics of professional interest. Scope: Journal specialized in Social Work in Costa Rica and in the Central American area. Open space for knowledge, experiences and contributions not only from the academy but also from professionals who practice both in the private and in the public sphere. The Magazine will prioritize professionals in Social Work; However, professionals from other areas of knowledge may participate, provided that the topic of the article is relevant to the interests of the Journal.

This journal is an organ attached to the College of Social Workers of Costa Rica, with editorial independence from its board of directors.

Peer Review Process

For this process, the magazine takes into consideration the following points:

• External evaluators are used to this publishing entity, specialists in the different areas of social work study.
• Some of the participating evaluators are international specialists.
• It is sought through evaluation tools, achieve an objective ditacmen on the postulated texts.
• All our articles are evaluated using the double blind methodology.

Step by step process:

1. The articles are postulated by the author / authors through our platform.
2. Once received, the director and the editor make a first review to verify compliance with the Editing Rules. If some deficiencies are found, they are returned to the authors for correction.
3. When the articles are duly presented, they are considered accepted, and are reviewed by the members of the Editorial Board with respect to three basic aspects: relevance, coherence and thematic and methodological support. If there are deficiencies it is sent back to the authors, if all is well they are sent to external evaluation.
4. If the external evaluators make recommendations, they are sent to the authors and once the process is finished, the articles are sent to philological revision.

Publication Frequency

Two issues are published per year. There is no advance publication, it is published when the number is closed, 1500 copies of each number are usually published.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Digital preservation policy

The Journal is published and managed through the content management system Open Journal System (OJS), designed for editorial management of journals. Thanks to this system and its organization, the reception of articles is preserved and managed, a copy of the different states of the manuscripts is kept; In addition, the results and observations of the reviewers are housed.

As preservation measures, the following practices have been adopted:

• The OJS system is housed in the web server provided by the Costa Rican Association of Social Workers, the company in charge of its administration, maintains daily backups and duplicates of the data.
• The technician of the platform makes weekly backups of manuscripts in edition, articles and of the system; these are hosted locally. These backups are also duplicates in the web server, in compressed files.
• Locally, the editor keeps a copy of the manuscripts received, reviews and articles published.
• The College of Social Workers maintains a printed file of the copies published before 2017, as of 2017 a digital copy is kept in the local server of the entity.
• This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a file system distributed among collaborating libraries, which allows creating permanent files for conservation and restoration purposes.

Editorial process in the journal (only Spanish)

Ethical code (Good practices)

These guidelines are intended to guide editorial work in accordance with the ethical conduct that professionals and technicians who carry out this process must incorporate in the development of their tasks.

Creative Commons License

All the contents published in this jorunal use the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License - ShareAlike 4.0 international.

For more information about this license, you can consult the following link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Indexes and databases

The journal is present in the following information systems: