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:

Talia dixit 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 Talia dixit 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

Talia dixit has a Board of National and International Reviewers of recognized prestige, an International Scientific Committee, experts in the disciplines present in Spanish universities and research centers. The Scientific Committee advises and evaluates the publication, endorsing it scientifically and projecting it internationally. The Editorial Board issues reports, proposes topics and evaluates manuscripts. The Scientific Advisory Board submits the estimated manuscripts for blind evaluation in the publicationTalia dixit is a medium for the publication of various Research Projects, Research Centres and Groups and Universities.1) All manuscripts sent to the journal must be original and must not have been previously published in other journals or as a book chapter. 2) Once the work is sent, the authors will receive by e-mail an acknowledgement with the date of reception. This date will be considered as the starting point of the evaluation process. 3) . The works received by the journal will be analyzed by two or more (at least one of them will always be an external specialist and will not belong to either the Editorial Board or the Advisory Board of the journal), who will not know the identity of the author, and who will issue a report on the scientific content, originality, suitability to the editorial line of the journal and interest of the article. 4) All the reports follow a model previously established by the journal's Editorial Board, which refers to both the form and content of the work and its suitability for the journal's editorial line. 5) In the event that the work is accepted for publication in the first instance, the authors must take into account the report or reports of the referees to rework, if necessary, the aspects indicated. 6) In any case, in view of the corrections made, the final decision on the publication of a paper is taken by the Editorial Board. It publishes abstracts in the language in which the article is written and in English.

2. Quality of the editorial process

Talia dixit 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. From the volume of 2019, the magazine is offered on paper and in OJS (e-print).
 
All works published in Talia dixit 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 Talia dixit 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.
 
Talia dixit 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.
 
Talia dixit 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 Talia dixit are basically oriented to the progress of science in the field of Rhetoric studies

IV. PLAGIO DETECTION POLICY

 
Talia dixit 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).

VI. POLICY OF GOOD PRACTICES IN GENDER EQUALITY

This magazine has within its editorial policy  good practices in gender equality.