About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Journal Etic@net was founded in 2002 and is published by the Editorial University of Granada (eug) and the TEIS Research Group (Educational Technology and Social Research), coordinated by the University of Granada (Spain).

Its main objective is to offer in each issue a set of scientific works that help to deepen the theoretical and applied knowledge in the field of education, as well as the means and technologies in the education (ICT) and training of teachers, with special impact on the issues arising from the evaluation of the ethical, aesthetic and scientific quality of content and distance learning in virtual environments, taking into account access to the Knowledge Society of the population sectors affected by the digital divide.

For this reason, Etic@net is aimed at the general public and especially researchers and professionals in the educational field.

Etic@net, Electronic Scientific Journal of Education and Communication at the Knowledge Society. Founded in 2002- second era- ISSN: 1695-324X

Peer Review Process

The system used for the evaluation and selection of manuscripts is peer review, which conforms to the usual protocols of editing serial scientific publications. Each article is reviewed by at least two evaluators, according to the double-blind system.

The review opinion shall be: Publicable, Publishable with Amendments and Rejected.

In the event of a dispute, a third evaluator shall be sent to the final assessment.

Any opinions will be reported to the authorship of the manuscript. The average time of reviews shall be between 3 and 6 months.

Publication Frequency

Etic@net is published on a biannual basis from 2011 (from 2002 to 2010, inclusive, it was published annually). The first issue of the annual volume covers the months of January to June and will be published in the last week of June. The second issue of the current volume, July to December, will be published in the last week of December. For the first number of the annual volume will be considered for review and/or possible publication, manuscripts received before May 1. For the second issue of the annual volume, manuscripts received before 1 November will be considered for review and/or publication.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle that making research available free of charge to the public, which encourages greater exchange of global knowledge.

This publication neither applies nor charges any charge to authors or collaborators under any circumstances; therefore, posting on Etic@net is totally free.

Digital file preservation policy

This journal is part of the Public Knowledge Project's Private LOCKSS and CLOCKSS Network (PKP-PLN), which generates a decentralized archiving system, distributed among collaborating libraries, in order to create permanent archives of the journal for the preservation of original contents and their restoration if necessary.

https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/eticanet/gateway/lockss

https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/eticanet/gateway/clockss

In addition, this magazine develops various processes aimed at guaranteeing the permanent accessibility of the digital objects that it houses on its own servers:

- Digital preservation metadata.

- Use of DOI. - Use of Crossref.

- Use of DOAJ.

The files published on this website are available in easily reproducible formats (html, pdf and epub).

Originality and plagiarism

Authors should ensure that they have written completely original works, and if the authors have used the work and / or the words of others, that they have been appropriately cited or cited.

Plagiarism takes many forms, from "passing" someone else's paper as the author's own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper (without attribution), to claiming the results of research done by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical editorial behavior and is unacceptable. It is remembered that Etic@net will go through an antiplagiarism filter with the TURNITIN software the works sent to it. This process will be carried out prior to its acceptance for evaluation. If due to the result of the software to detect plagiarism (coincidences), the work is rejected, said report will be sent to the author of the same.

Interoperability protocols

Etic @ net provides an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface that allows other portals and information services to access the metadata of published content.

Specifications:

OAI-PMH Protocol Version 2.0

Dublin Core Metadata

Route for harvesters:

https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/eticanet/oai

Disclaimer

The opinions and facts consigned in each article are the sole responsibility of their authors. Etic@net journal is not responsible, in any case, for the credibility and authenticity of the works.

Identification of authorship

This journal uses the ORCID ® persistent digital identifier as a standard for authorship.

Journal History