Editorial Policies

Editorial Policies

Preservation Policy

Social & Educational Lens ensures digital preservation of its content through the LOCKSS system via OJS, creating multiple distributed copies in libraries and repositories.

Additionally, the journal maintains its own server managed by LAKED S.A.S., which stores weekly backups of the entire OJS platform to ensure long-term availability of its content.

The preservation process follows international standards to allow for file validation and content recovery in case of technical failures.

Interoperability Policy

The journal implements interoperability protocols to ensure that its content can be harvested by databases and academic aggregators.

  • Metadata Harvesting Protocol: OAI-PMH v2.0
  • Supported formats: Dublin Core, MARC, MARC21, RFC1807
  • Harvesting URL: [insert harvesting URL here]
  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal first publication rights under a CC BY 4.0 license.
  • Authors may share their accepted article in repositories or academic networks, citing the original source.
  • Manuscripts must be original and not under review elsewhere.

Open Access Policy

The journal provides free and immediate access to its content in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). Users may read, download, share, and reuse content with appropriate citation.

Publication Fees and Funding

Social & Educational Lens charges no publication or article processing fees (APC). All editorial costs are covered by EDUTEM, ensuring free access for both authors and readers.

Commitment to Responsible Research Assessment (DORA)

  • Evaluation is based on content quality and contribution, not on journal impact factor.
  • The journal supports the use of diverse indicators, including citation context and applicability.
  • It rejects the exclusive use of impact metrics for article evaluation.
  • Each article is assessed on its scientific merit and disciplinary relevance.

Identifiers Policy

Each article is assigned a DOI through CrossRef. Journal DOI: https://doi.org/10.56931/sel

All authors must provide their ORCID ID upon submission. Registration: https://orcid.org

Anti-Plagiarism Policy

The journal uses Turnitin to check for originality. High similarity without justification results in immediate rejection.

Verification Process:

  • All manuscripts are checked with Turnitin before peer review.
  • Excessive similarity = automatic rejection.
  • Reports are manually reviewed by the editorial team.

Author Commitment:

  • The manuscript is original and not submitted elsewhere.
  • No full or partial plagiarism, including unjustified self-plagiarism.
  • Copyrighted materials are used with permission or under fair use.
  • No unethical fragmentation of research (“salami slicing”).

Appeals Procedure:

  1. Formal request within 5 business days of the rejection notice.
  2. The editorial team reviews the Turnitin report.
  3. Final decision within 10 business days.
  4. No second appeal will be accepted.

Authorship and Contribution Policy (CRediT)

Authors must specify their roles based on the CRediT taxonomy:

  • Conceptualization
  • Methodology
  • Software
  • Validation
  • Formal analysis
  • Investigation
  • Resources
  • Data curation
  • Writing – original draft
  • Writing – review & editing
  • Supervision
  • Project administration
  • Funding acquisition

Author order must reflect contribution and be agreed upon before submission. The journal does not mediate authorship disputes.

Conflict of Interest Policy

All authors, reviewers, and editors must declare any conflicts of interest that may affect objectivity.

  • Financial interests
  • Personal or professional relationships
  • Institutional commitments

A statement must be included in the manuscript. Undeclared conflicts may result in article withdrawal.

Ethical Oversight Policy

The journal adheres to COPE and the Helsinki Declaration for research ethics.

  • Studies involving humans or animals require institutional ethics approval.
  • Prohibited practices: data fabrication, image manipulation, duplicate publication, and plagiarism.

Intellectual Property Policy

  • Authors retain copyright under CC BY 4.0.
  • Articles may be shared, reused, and archived with attribution.
  • Use of copyrighted materials requires proper permissions.

Thesauri and Dictionaries

The journal encourages the use of standardized terminology for keywords and technical language. Recommended sources:

Thesauri:

Specialized Dictionaries: