About the Journal
Luz, a journal sponsored by the University of Holguín, belonging to the Ministry of Higher Educaction, was founded in 2002, legalized and its permit authorized in 2004 by means of the Registration Certificate issued by the National Registry of Serial Publications (RNPS, by its initials in Spanish) of the Cuban Book Institute. The ISSN 1814-151X was granted afterwards. The journal is named Luz as a tribute to the distinguished Cuban educator and philosopher José de la Luz y Caballero
The journal is an online, academic and scientific publication of continuous periodicity; mainly designed for the academic community of Holguín and of Cuba in general, as well as of other regions of the continent where mentoring actions are undertaken and diplomas, master's and doctorates are implemented.
It edits original and unpublished scientific articles, wich are the results of researches concerning the Education Sciences in all its fields.
Luz applies open peer review as a means to guarantee quality and to meet the journal's goals. The scientific articles that are submitted for publication are assessed by specialists on the subject, following the “open peer review” method, in which authors and reviewers are known to each other. Each article is reviewed by at least two reviewers, who act as a group and communicate with each other. If both reviewers approve the article, it will be placed on the editorial mat and published when appropriate. If both reviewers reject the article, it will be withdrawn from the publication process, and this decision is final. If only one of the reviewers rejects the article, the document will be submitted for review by a third party (reviewer or editor), who will make the final decision to approve or reject it.
Moreover, the journal has an anti-plagiarism policy and the tool plagiarism (https://editpad.org/tool/plagiarism-checker) is used to detect possible fraud in the submissions received, regardless of the fact that authors must issue a certificate of originality (see guidelines for authors in the submissions section) that certifies that their article is completely original and unpublished.
Open Access Policy
Luz offers open access to the content of its publications. This journal uses the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License. The user is free to:
- Share: copy and redistribute the data using any means or format.
- Adapt: remix, transform and create from the data.
Under the following conditions:
- Acknowledgment: User must properly acknowledge authorship, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. User may do so in any reasonable way, but not in a way that suggests that he/she has the support of the licensor or that he/she is getting it due to the use given to the data.
- NonCommercial: Data cannot be used for commercial purposes.
- Share Alike: If user remixes, transforms or creates from the data, he/she must distribute his/her contributions under the same license as the original.
Archiving
This journal uses the system LOCKSS to create a file system distributed among collaborating libraries, allowing them to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.
The journal is free of article processing charges. A best practices policy in editorial management is applied.
Luz welcomes the national and international scientific community and invites its members to access it through its url: https://luz.uho.edu.cu
Editorial ethics
Ethical declaration on publication and best practices
The editorial staff of the journal Luz establishes a commitment whith the academic community that decides to disseminate the results of their scientific research, in order to guarantee the ethics and quality of the articles published. This statement is based on the Guidelines on Best Practices for Publications developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in order to regulate ethical aspects in scientific journals. On the other hand, it ensures the quality of the published materials, protecting and respecting both the content of the articles and their integrity. The Editorial Board is committed to publishing corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.
The evaluation criteria to be applied by external reviewers will be based solely on the scientific importance, originality, clarity and relevance of the work presented. The journal guarantees complete disclosure of the evaluation process at all times. Moreover, it ensures confidentiality of possible clarifications or claims that an author wishes to send to the journal's committee or to the reviewers of the article.
Articles identified as plagiarized will be removed from the journal, if they have already been published, or will not be published. By accepting the terms of publication stated by Luz, the authors declare that the article and the materials associated with it are original (certificate of originality), that the work has not been previously presented or published in any other means of dissemination, and does not infringe copyright (copyright release letter).
About the Articles
a) The data declared in the articles must be real and legitimate. All articles must include citations and references to the corresponding sources.
b) The articles will not be submitted by the author or authors for evaluation to more than one journal.
c) Plagiarism and fraudulent data is prohibited in articles under any modality.
About the Author
a) Presenting other author's ideas as one's own, constitutes a negative and unacceptable practice.
b) Authors must declare any source of financing that has allowed the study to be carried out, as well as any other commitment that may influence the interpretation of the results.
c) All authors are obliged to provide the necessary corrections to errors.
3 . About Reviewers and Open Peer Review
a) Reviewers must issue their opinion objectively and without bias.
b) Promptly report to the editor any conflict of interest that they might identify when reading an article that has been sent for review.
c) Warn the editor or director of the journal of any possible situation of plagiarism, both partially and in the entire article. Likewise indicate if any theoretical source is being used in an article without being referenced.
4 . About the Editor
a) It is the responsibility of the editor to review the articles without taking into account race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, political belief, nationality, ethnicity, or personal stand of the authors.
a) The data declared in the articles must be real and legitimate. All articles must include citations and references to the corresponding sources.
b) The articles will not be submitted by the author or authors for evaluation to more than one journal.
c) Plagiarism and fraudulent data is prohibited in articles under any modality.
About the Author
a) Presenting other author's ideas as one's own, constitutes a negative and unacceptable practice.
b) Authors must declare any source of financing that has allowed the study to be carried out, as well as any other commitment that may influence the interpretation of the results.
c) All authors are obliged to provide the necessary corrections to errors.
3 . About Reviewers and Open Peer Review
a) Reviewers must issue their opinion objectively and without bias.
b) Promptly report to the editor any conflict of interest that they might identify when reading an article that has been sent for review.
c) Warn the editor or director of the journal of any possible situation of plagiarism, both partially and in the entire article. Likewise indicate if any theoretical source is being used in an article without being referenced.
4 . About the Editor
a) It is the responsibility of the editor to review the articles without taking into account race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, political belief, nationality, ethnicity, or personal stand of the authors.
b). The editor must decide which articles should be sent for peer review, as well as which ones are ready for publication after their review, not revealing any information about their content, subject matter, authorship, included data, analysis carried out or final conclusions.
c). The editor should seek to fulfil the needs of readers and authors, constantly improve and innovate in the journal, ensure the quality of published articles.
d). The editor must avoid any conflict of interest with rejected or accepted articles and promote the publication of corrections, clarifications, rectifications and apologies when errors are found and whenever necessary.
5 . About the Editorial Board
a). The Editorial Board is responsible for monitoring and safeguarding the different aspects of the journal's editorial ethics, settling any ethical conflict promptly and in coordination with the editor, in order to maintain the academic integrity and credibility of the journal.
b). The Editorial Board rejects plagiarism and fraudulent data in articles under any modality.
c). The Editorial Board is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, rectifications and apologies when necessary.
c). The editor should seek to fulfil the needs of readers and authors, constantly improve and innovate in the journal, ensure the quality of published articles.
d). The editor must avoid any conflict of interest with rejected or accepted articles and promote the publication of corrections, clarifications, rectifications and apologies when errors are found and whenever necessary.
5 . About the Editorial Board
a). The Editorial Board is responsible for monitoring and safeguarding the different aspects of the journal's editorial ethics, settling any ethical conflict promptly and in coordination with the editor, in order to maintain the academic integrity and credibility of the journal.
b). The Editorial Board rejects plagiarism and fraudulent data in articles under any modality.
c). The Editorial Board is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, rectifications and apologies when necessary.
We have signed the DORA declaration on best practices regarding editorial policy.
Indexing
Since 2011 the journal was included in Latindex with folio 22597, and single folio 20066; and in 2014 in MIAR. It also has the certification of CITMA that validates it as a scientific publication since 2014. In 2015 it was included in the Redib database (Ibero-American Network for Innovation and Scientific Knowledge). Since 2018 it has been referenced in the Emerging Source Citation Index, a WoS citation database. Since July 2018, the journal has been included in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). Since July of 2020 Luz is in Redalyc. ERIHPlus (European Reference Index for the Humanities), index developed by the European Science Foundation that collects publications that meet certain quality standards in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences, includes Luz since January 2022. Since October 2022, the journal can be seen in the database Scielo, a platform that accepted the journal's inclusion in September 2021.
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