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Author Guidelines
All manuscripts submitted for publication must follow, as far as possible, the general guidelines for manuscript submission, which apply to all the collections with the following qualifications:
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The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another press for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Note to Editor).
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The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author guidelines, which is found in About.
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If you are applying to a serie which is reviewed by pairs, you should make sure that the instructions in Guaranteeing a blind review are followed.
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If the paper contains any kind of material whose reproduction requires for permission, please indicate this circumstance (using Note to Editor). Authors are responsible for respecting intellectual property when they reproduce materials as part of their works and must send the corresponding permissions to the journal. The editor, in any case, is free of any responsibility resulting from the author’s eventual violation of intellectual property rights.
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I have read the editorial policies and revised the characteristics of each series, and consequently selected the specific series for my proposal.
Copyright Notice
Please read carefully our editorial policies and revise the characteristics of each series so as to appropriately select the modality and collection in which your proposal is to be included (Series box). If the collection were to fit in modality 3. Works of External Scientific Responsibility –for it would, therefore, count with own funding–, please select Outras publicacións, Cursos e Congresos or Homenaxes, as appropriate.
Copyright Statement
In publishing with the University Press, the authors transfer their exploitation rights to the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, which by virtue of that transfer acquires the status of copyright holder. This status gives the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, with the conditions and limits provided for by Spanish intellectual property laws, the exclusive worldwide right to publish, advertise, promote, exchange, distribute, market and/or publicly communicate the work in printed or digital format as well as in any other format that may be invented in the future. Apart from this, the authors are free to decide whether their works should be published commercially (that is, with a retail price and receiving author royalties) or in open access (that is, with unrestricted free and open access to the whole contents of the work and, therefore, not receiving author royalties). For further information, please consult the Open access policy.
Data protection information
In accordance with organic law 3/2018, of December 5, on the protection of personal data and guarantee of digital rights and with EU Regulation 2016/679, the data collected will be incorporated by the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) in the treatment "Service of Publications and Scientific Exchange" with the purpose of managing the authors and/or managers and users of the monographic works and journals edited by the Service of Publications and Scientific Exchange. The body responsible for said treatment is the University of Santiago de Compostela with registered office at Praza do Obradoiro s/n, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, email: protecciondatos@usc.gal. You can also contact the USC Data Protection Delegate at the email address dpd@usc.es. The justification basis for this treatment is the consent expressed by the interested parties. Interested persons can exercise their rights of access, rectification, deletion, treatment limitation, opposition and portability through the USC Electronic Office at https://sede.usc.es/sede/publica/catalogo/procedemento/55 /view.htm. They can also contact the Spanish Agency for Data Protection to make the claim they deem appropriate.. In the case of not providing consent, the data will not be processed, but the service cannot be offered. The data will be kept for the period in which the purpose for which they were collected is carried out, or the time necessary to comply with legal obligations. Once the purpose has been fulfilled, the data that are not part of the provision of the public service will be blocked until the applicable limitation periods have elapsed.. The privacy and data protection policy of the USC can be consulted at
http://www.usc.es/es/normativa/protecciondatos/Politica-privacidade.html
Peer Review Process
The mission of the University Press is to make known, publish, market and exchange books, journals and other publications financed by the university, whatever its format and according to the nature of publication defined by the University Press.
The fundamental aims of the University Press are the following:
- Publishing the works
- Make known, distributing and marketing the published works
- Promoting the open access to publications in an electronic format
- Exchanging our own releases with other universities and with public as well as private organizations
- Prompting and encouraging electronic production
- Collaborating in the acquisition of works for the university library’s collection
On the one hand, the in-house staff in the editorial and technical department are directly responsible for guaranteeing the formal quality of the product: linguistic correction (spelling, grammar, syntax), stylistic correction (expressive propriety and accurate wording) and orthotypographic correction; also, the functionality and aesthetic appeal of the design together with the highest efficiency of the format (be it printed or electronic).
On te other hand, all of the editorial products of the University Press undergo controls of conceptual and scientific quality, according the publishing typology as follows:
1. USC Editora. In the case of manuscripts submitted for the USC Editora imprint in all of its series (Académica; CELE. Cuadernos de Español como Lengua Extranjera; Clave; Ensaio; Manuais; Textos), conceptual and scientific quality is guaranteed by an anonymous and systematic peer-review process whose confidentiality goes in both directions (author-reviewer, reviewer-author); the process is established in the second section of the Regulations of the University Press.
2. Collections with a director and/or a scientific committee. In the case of manuscripts submitted to collections, it is the director and/or the scientific committee that certify the quality of the manuscript after analysing it, reading it and even, in some cases, asking for expert reports. The collections are: Biblioteca de Divulgación-Serie Galicia; Biblioteca de Divulgación-Serie Científica; Cadernos CIPPCE de Emerxencia Cultural; Clásicos do Pensamento Universal; Biblioteca de la Cátedra de Cultura Cubana 'Alejo Carpentier'; Biblioteca de la Cátedra Valle-Inclán de la USC; Lalia-Series Maior; Limiar; Publicaciones de la Cátedra 'José Ángel Valente' de Poesía y Estética; Publicaciones del Departamento de Geometría y Topología; Publicacións da Cátedra Juana de Vega. Actas; Publicacións da Cátedra Juana de Vega. Cadernos de Investigación; Publicacións da Cátedra Juana de Vega. Monografías; Publicacións da Cátedra Juana de Vega. Faladoiros; Verba. Anexos.
3. Works with external scientific responsibility. In all other cases, works published out of series, institutional publications, conference proceedings, festschrifts, etc., the sole conceptual and scientific responsible will be the department, institution, institute, research group or project that promotes them and, therefore, finances them entirely.
All the foregoing editorial processes are transparent to the parties involved (authors, internal reviewers, external reviewers, directors of collections, members of editorial boards of collections, editors and technical editors), but they are obviously confidential when necessary. This is possible because they are carried out by means of the technologies afforded by the editorial management platform Lib{USC}, developed with the Open Monograph Press software. On the one hand, this software allows all parties to perform their respective roles and tasks online and, on the other, it registers and files the whole editorial record of every manuscript (proposal forms, communications, reports, files in their successive versions, etc.).