About the Journal
Nature and Goal
The Novasinergia Digital Journal adheres to the open access model, in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants rights of use to third parties using a Creative Commons open license that allows immediate free access to the work and allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, To track them for indexing, to pass them as data to computer programs, or to use them for any other lawful purpose, the license is specified in the Copyright section.
It uses double-blind review processes. It accepts contributions in two types of modalities: research articles and review articles.
Article submission guidelines are available here.
Novasinergia aims to disseminate the partial or total results of research based on science, engineering and technology. The publications are arbitrated internally and externally by blind peers, which present original solutions to the priority problems of society, the environment and its diversity, complying with quality parameters and the application of international ethical standards that regulate the dynamics of publications.
Mission and Vision
The mission of Novasinergia is to spread new knowledge, complying with ethical criteria, relevance and international quality standards.
The vision of the Novasinergia is to consolidate itself as a means of disseminating the highest level of research work carried out at national and international level, in which basic sciences, engineering and cutting-edge technologies are harmonized.
Themes
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Physical and Chemical Sciences
- Environment and Biodiversity
- Computational Engineering and Computer Engineering
- Technology of the information and communication
- Energy, Electricity and Electronics
- Industry and Production
- Architecture and Construction
Periodicity
Novasinergia is biannual, with editions in the months of january and july. The content published by NovasinergiaA is available here.
Readers, authors and referees
Novasinergia contains scientific publications for the use of readers and/or researchers of academic staff and students of higher education institutions, research institutes and other organizations interested in to know and to share the results of their research works, technical and management processes related to the thematic coverage of the journal and subjected to its standards.
Researchers who are interested in being peer evaluators are welcome, after the verification process established by the journal, you will be contacted by the editor,
We invite readers, authors and referees to register in Novasinergia (registration available here), you can interact with the editors, have alert services and other important information in a timely manner.
Language
Articles may be written in Spanish or English. Manuscripts must contain the title, abstract and keywords in the language of the main text and in English when this is not the language of the text.
Cost
Submission, review, processing and publication of the article has no cost to the author.
Editorial process
All articles submitted to the journal will be subject to a rigorous review process by specialists in the subject area to which they correspond. The arbitration process must contemplate peer review with the double blind pair modality. Thus, the anonymity and confidentiality of both authors and evaluators is kept explicitly.
At the time the author submits his manuscript, he must commit to the editing process until the end in case his contribution is accepted for publication. The author's statement will be verified that the manuscript is not under submission for publication in other media and that all authors approved the submission to Novasinergia, will also host the editorial standards declared by the journal.
The editorial process consists of three stages, preliminary verification or pre-arbitration, arbitration, and post-arbitration.
In the preliminary verification, the editor checks that the manuscript meets the requirements of the journal (originality, subject area, organization, presentation, quality and scientific rigor), as well as the verification of plagiarism and / or prior publication of the content submitted. The review is carried out through the Urkund software, having as a policy that no article that passes to the next phase may present a similarity percentage greater than 5%. The Editor may ask the authors for modifications to the manuscript until it is in a position to be arbitrated, if it finds no possibility of improvement, it will reject them in this instance.
In the arbitration stage the editor will select the blind peer evaluators taking as reference the database of external peers of the journal, considering their predisposition, training, expertise and scientific production. As a result, the arbitrators will issue their opinion for the editor's analysis and in the cases that correspond to the author's recommendations. The evaluation of the peer evaluators will be carried out through the opinion format defined by Novasinergia.
The evaluating peers may issue the following recommendations:
-Accepted for publication
-Accepted for publication after making modifications
-Rejected, it is not recommended to publish the manuscript
If the arbitrator suggest the opinion of "Rejected, it is not recommended to publish the article" and that the other arbitrator determines “Accepted for publication or Accepted for publication after making modifications”, the work will be submitted to review by a third arbitrator, whose opinion will serve as a reference for the final decision.
If modifications are required, the authors must develop them within the established deadline, the process may be cyclical, in which the editor and correspondence author will intervene and if necessary the evaluation peers for a new assessment.
Post-arbitration consists in the preparation of the final version of the manuscript, the issuance of the letters of assignment of rights by the author to Novasinergia, the author's approval of the final version, among other aspects. The publication of the manuscript will be made in the volume and number that the editorial team determines with technical criteria.
The deadlines established for the editorial process are as follows:
* First Instance Review (pre-arbitration): 14 calendar days from when the manuscript is received.
* Second Instance Review (arbitration): 30 calendar days from when the manuscript is delivered to the evaluator.
* Incorporation of Modifications (post-arbitration): 7 calendar days counted from
* Incorporation of Modifications (post-arbitration): 7 calendar days after the corresponding author is notified.
Ethics in publications
The editorial team of Novasinergia will be inflexible with the bad practices of the authors or members of the editorial team, in case of plagiarism, investigative dishonesty, information concealment, disclosure of confidential information or its inappropriate use for private or third-party benefit, duplication of shipments for publication in other media, fraud, among others. For this we will build on the "Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers" of the COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION ETHICS available here.
Novasinergia will respect at all times the privacy of both editors, authors and manuscript reviewers who act as blind peers. Intellectual property rights fall on the authors.
If the Magazine suspects a misconduct in terms of publication or investigation, it will proceed as follows:
- Suspicions of plagiarism in article received.
- Suspicions of plagiarism in published article.
- Suspicion of duplicity in article.
- Suspicion of conflict of interest in article.
- Suspicion of ethics problems in article received.
- Suspicions of invented data in received article.
- Suspicions of invented data in published article.
If change of author or extension to more authors would be necessary, once the process of arbitration of the manuscript has begun, the Journal will proceed according to the COPE code of ethics.
Copyright
Upon receipt of articles, editors and evaluators are free to suggest partial modifications of their content, without affecting the meaning of the author's arguments. After acceptance of the articles to be published, Novasinergia is free to reproduce the contents for dissemination purposes, duly pointing to the authors. The authors of each article will maintain the intellectual property and rights recognized by law.
The submission and evaluation of material received by Novasinergia means that the authors know and accept the following conditions:
- Authors retain the copyrights (copyright) and assign to Novasinergia the right of first publication of the work, under a Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY_NC, which allows third parties to use what is published as long as they refer to the author or authors of the work and their publication in this journal
- Authors can share, copy, distribute, alter, transform, generate a derivative work, execute and publicly communicate the publication in Novasinergia, provided that:
a) the authorship and the original source of s are cited (journal, edition, number and URL of the work);
b) are not used for commercial purposes;
c) the same license terms are maintained.
Storage
The information and communication technology department of the National University of Chimborazo keeps the servers virtualized. All virtual machines are hosted on an HP server, where is configured HPE 3PAR StoreServ storage. Additionally, a Veeam Backup & Replication virtual machine service is maintained to guarantee the daily backup of the server information assigned to Novasinergia.
The Novasinergia website, based on Open Journal Systems, is compatible with the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system that guarantees the journal a permanent and secure file. LOCKSS is an open source program developed by the Stanford University Library that enables libraries to retain selected web journals by regularly searching registered journals to collect and archive new published content. Each file is continually validated against records from other libraries, so any damaged or lost content can be restored using those records or the journal itself. LOCKSS has been enabled to store and distribute magazine content in partner libraries through a LOCKSS Publisher Manifest Page.
The CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system has also been enabled to guarantee a permanent and safe archive for the magazine. CLOCKSS is based on the open source LOCKSS software developed at the Stanford University Library, which enables libraries to retain selected web journals by regularly checking the websites of registered journals for recently published content and archiving it. Each file is constantly validated against other library caches, and if content is found to be corrupted or lost, the other caches or magazine are used to restore it. CLOCKSS therefore allows the storage and distribution of Novasinergia content to participating libraries through the Publisher Manifest Page.
