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Author Guidelines

It is essential that submissions respect the standards established in the Publication Manual and be presented using the article writing template, in order to be accepted and submitted for evaluation. Authors will be notified about the acceptance/rejection of their work within 7 days after receipt of the document.

You can also review our editorial policy, which details the phases of the editorial process, evaluation times, archival and digital preservation policies, among others.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors must ensure that their submission meets all the following requirements. 

  • Wherever possible, URLs should be included in the reference list.
  • The submission file must be in Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx) or RTF format.
  • The manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal. If otherwise, this must be explained in the comments to the editor.
  • The Authorship, Good Practices, and Rights Assignment Declaration must be completed and attached.
  • The manuscript must comply with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Publication Manual.

Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be returned for revision.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in Revista Sarance retain the copyright of their works, granting the journal only the right of first publication under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This license allows free use of the work, provided that proper credit is given to the author(s) and to Revista Sarance, that it is not used for commercial purposes, and that any derivative works are distributed under the same license.

Authors may republish their work in other venues, provided that acknowledgment is made that the text was originally published in this journal. Revista Sarance encourages the deposit of published articles in institutional or personal repositories in order to promote open access to knowledge.

It is essential that authors attach the Authorship and Good Practices when submitting their manuscript.

Privacy Statement

Privacy and Data Use

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes established therein and will not be provided to third parties or used for other purposes.

Access and Redistribution of Information

All articles in Sarance Journal are open access and are under Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial, CC BY-NC-SA), which allows users to access, distribute and use the material for non-commercial purposes, provided that attribution is given to the creator, under the same original license.

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. Authors may republish their work in another space as long as they request authorization from Sarance Journal and indicate that it was first published there.

Sarance Journal does not apply any fee for any of its processes.

Interoperability Protocol

All publications of Sarance Journal of the Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología incorporate interoperability protocols that allow their contents to be collected by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters. Journals published through OJS (Open Journals System 3.1.2.4) incorporate the OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol with the possibility of obtaining different formats for metadata.

  • OAI-PMH Protocol: Version 2.0
  • Metadata formats: Dublin Core, MARC, MARC21, RFC1807
  • Path for harvesters: https://revistasarance.ioaotavalo.com.ec/index.php/revistasarance/oai

Preservation and Update Policies

The Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología (IOA) uses digital preservation methods to ensure the content of electronic archive documents of Sarance Journal. Thus, it maintains indefinite storage of files, under the principles of: integrity, authenticity, unalterability, originality, and accessibility.

Update

The OJS platform administrator keeps content and notices updated, journal presentation and periodic calls for article submissions.

Preservation

The Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología executes its preservation policies under the following procedures: storage, use of preservation strategies, encapsulation, self-documentation and self-sufficiency. The creation of other permanent journal archives is also planned for conservation and restoration purposes.

The preservation of the OJS platform is carried out together with the institutional information backup process of the Otavalo Institute of Anthropology on a periodic basis. This activity is the responsibility of the ICT Unit of the University of Otavalo, which makes identical backups incrementally.

Additionally, the journal is maintained in a digital repository on the publisher's website; that is, there is an updated and complete backup of published journals. This work is carried out annually, as new issues are published.

There is a complete strategy to guarantee the security and integrity of the information stored by Sarance journal, taking into account three aspects (hardware, software and others).

Security Infrastructure

Hardware

  • Use of high-performance professional servers, equipped with redundant systems in both power and storage devices.
  • Electrical backup that gives systems autonomy in case of failures in the electrical power supply.

Software

  • Design of a security system that includes the existence of a perimeter firewall, intrusion detectors and backup systems that ensure information conservation in the face of natural disasters or computer catastrophes.
  • Constant updating of operating systems and applications.
  • Defined policies for updating the platform used by the journal (OJS).
  • Use of secure protocols (https).

Other

  • Guarantee of adequate electrical supply to the data center that hosts the journal as well as physical security of the premises.
  • Strict measures regarding the climatic conditions of the data center premises.