Policies

POLICIES

I. Digital preservation policy


This magazine uses the LOCKSS, systems to create a file system distributed among collaborating libraries, which allows you to create permanent archives of the magazine for conservation and restoration purposes.

Further:

Padel Scientific Journal has the purpose of preserving digitally in the long term all the documents it houses. To do this, it develops an action plan that includes basic measures to ensure the digital durability of the scientific material:

  •     Backups
  •     Documentation storage on servers and external storage units
  •     Conversion of formats to safer ones
  •     Periodic checks of file integrity to prevent corruption
  •     Monitoring of the technological environment to anticipate possible migrations of obsolete formats or software
  •     Digital preservation metadata
  •     Use of DOI in its new materials

For the purposes of digital preservation, the deposit of documents with easily readable formats (such as PDF) is encouraged. In the event that it was not possible to maintain the usability of all existing formats, the journal undertakes to return the files to their authors. The digital preservation policy will be reviewed annually by the Padel Scientific Journal.

II. Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps to further global knowledge exchange.

III. Quality policies

1. Scientific means of knowledge transfer

Padel Scientific Journal has a Committee of National and International Reviewers of recognized prestige, an International Scientific Committee, experts in the disciplines present in Spanish universities and research centres. The Scientific Committee advises and evaluates the publication, endorsing it scientifically and projecting it internationally. The Editorial Board issues reports, propose themes and evaluates manuscripts. The Scientific Advisory Board submits the manuscripts estimated in the publication for blind evaluation
Padel Scientific Journal is a means of publishing various Research Projects, Research Centers and Groups and Universities, not only to publish articles but monographic sections.
Padel Scientific Journal offers detailed information to its authors and collaborators on the manuscript review process and sets criteria, procedures, revision plan and maximum times strictly: a) Preliminary phase of manuscript estimation/dismissal, with a deadline of 4 weeks for your response; b) Evaluation phase of manuscripts with rejection/acceptance thereof; c) Edition of the texts in preprint (digital) and printed in Spanish and English. Post abstracts in the language in which the article is written and in English
Padel Scientific Journal Accepts manuscripts in various languages ​​for evaluation, articles in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and English have now been published.

2. Quality of the editorial process

Padel Scientific Journal maintains its edition of numbers with a rigorous periodicity from its birth. An annual volume is published on a regular basis. It maintains, in turn, a strict coherence in its editorial line and in the subject of the publication.
 
All works published in Padel Scientific Journal are subject to prior evaluations by experts from the Advisory Board and the Editorial Board, as well as Reviewers, independent researchers of prestige in the area.

The collaborations reviewed in Padel Scientific Journal are subject, as a minimum requirement, to the blind evaluation system, which guarantees anonymity in the revision of the manuscripts. In case of discrepancy between the evaluators, new revisions are carried out that determine the feasibility of the possible edition of the collaborations.
 
Padel Scientific Journal motivates the editorial decision that includes the reasons for the prior estimation, subsequent revision, with acceptance or rejection of the manuscripts, with summaries of the opinions issued by external experts.
 
Padel Scientific Journal has in its organization chart an Editorial Board, Advisory-Scientific Council and has a list of Evaluators. It also has a director and the assistance of the staff of the Publications Service of the University of Extremadura, as well as the production, edition and distribution management of the Sindéresis Publishing House with offices in Madrid and Porto. This ensures the institutional and commercial network.
 
The Advisory-Scientific Board and the list of Reviewers are made up of professionals and researchers of recognized prestige, without institutional links, neither with the journal nor with the publishing house, marking the evaluation and audit of the journal.

3. Scientific content quality

 
The articles that are published in Padel Scientific Journal are basically oriented to the progress of science in the journal field.

IV. PLAGIO DETECTION POLICY

 
Padel Scientific Journal is committed to the fight against plagiarism. For it:
 
1. Invite your reviewers to watch especially against plagiarism in their work.
 
2. It makes it available and uses anti-plagiarism detention systems.
 
3. Invite readers to detect some plagiarism and communicate it to us, if for any reason any work has mocked the filters or there has been an error. For this, we invite you to use the free license system: Viper Plagiarism Checker

V. AUTHOR'S FEES


This magazine charges authors the following prices: 0.00 (EUR)