Editorial Policies
Code of ethics
The editorial team of PublicAAHD is committed to practicing and ensuring ethical behavior throughout the editing process. The following are the highlights of the journal's ethical commitment, derived from the "Code of Conduct and Best Practices" published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Publishing Entity
The publishing entity is committed to protecting the intellectual property of the publication and the copyright. It will ensure an objective, fair, and thorough review of the texts based on peer evaluation. It is committed to addressing ethical complaints or misunderstandings and conflicts of interest and following the appropriate procedures to resolve them, according to the regulations established by the National University of La Plata.
Editors-in-Chief
The Editors-in-Chief are committed to continuously improving the publication, ensuring the quality of the material, defending freedom of expression, preventing commercial interests from compromising moral standards, and publishing errata, clarifications, retractions, or apologies. They will promote the opinion of authors, readers, reviewers, and editorial board members on how to improve the journal's processes. They will accept or reject an article based on its importance, originality, clarity of the text, and the journal's subject matter. They will publish guidelines/norms/directives on everything that is expected of authors and reviewers. These guidelines will be regularly updated. They will ensure the identity of the reviewers and authors is protected. They will provide editorial board members with guidelines on everything expected of them.
Editors
They will carry out their editorial tasks in an objective, fair and balanced manner.
They will adopt the necessary measures to prevent fraudulent publications.
They will maintain the anonymity of the authors and the reviewers during the evaluation of the texts to preserve the intellectual integrity of the entire process.
They undertake to enforce the times for revisions and for the publication of the works.
Reviewers
They commit to conducting an honest, critical and objective review.
They will evaluate the works in the shortest possible time to respect the delivery deadlines.
They will deliver a report that details the observations on the points of the article to be evaluated that the direction of the magazine has requested.
In no case will they keep the work or copy it.
Authors
They undertake not to send the article to another journal and will guarantee that the work is original and unpublished.
They will be responsible for the opinions, statements or conclusions they formulate in their texts.
They agree to use images whose rights have been transferred or whose authors have granted permission for them to be published. They will mention the author of the image (be it a person, a group, an institution or a medium).
If archival materials (letters, images, etc.) are used, the author undertakes to mention the original data of the piece or work and the place where it is archived or exhibited.
They agree to make the changes or corrections requested by the reviewers.
ANTI-PLAGIARISM POLICY
PublicAAHD maintains an anti-plagiarism policy aimed at ensuring that all published works are original and unpublished.
To this end, it uses free automatic plagiarism detection programs, although the journal implements the following procedure for each manuscript received:
When submitting the article, the authors are asked to declare that the article has not been previously published or submitted to other journals for evaluation and that they have followed the Guidelines for Authors, in which establishes that the postulated articles must be original.
Upon receiving the article, the editor uses anti-plagiarism tools, in order to track and compare in other works by the same or different authors data, results and writing aspects that allow corroborating the originality and avoiding plagiarism practices.
When submitting the article for evaluation, the reviewers are asked to alert the journal about possible indicators of plagiarism with works previously published in other sources, based on their knowledge of the sources and literature on the subject.
In the event of a plagiarism practice being verified, Publications of the Argentine Association of Digital Humanities (PublicAAHD) follows the guidelines provided by COPE
The journal considers the following practices to be plagiarism:
direct plagiarism
Minimal changes are made and someone else's text is presented as one's own.
The authorship of fragments (sentences or paragraphs) that correspond to other people's texts is omitted (whether they are reproduced verbatim and without placing quotation marks or if they are presented by means of paraphrases).
Plagiarism in direct quotes
Quotation marks are not used to indicate the fragments (sentences or paragraphs) that are reproduced verbatim.
Only part of the fragment (sentences or paragraphs) that is reproduced verbatim is indicated by quotation marks (it omits that the sentences before and/or after the quoted passage also correspond to the quoted text).
Plagiarism in paraphrases
The changes made do not substantially modify the wording of the original excerpt (sentences or paragraphs), so they do not constitute paraphrases.
The paraphrasing is extensive and the paraphrased passages are not clearly differentiated from the own passages.
The paraphrasing is continuous and no materials, own ideas or critical reflections are added that allow interaction or that enrich the information available in other already published works.
Plagiarism is not considered when:
The passages that are reproduced do not dominate over the original contributions of the writer.
The incorporation of other people's passages is used to allow the author to critically interact with another person's point of view.
The argument of the original text retains its meaning but is reworked with words or with different characteristics.
Self-plagiarism or recycling fraud
Minimal changes are made to one's own text and it is presented as if it were a different work.
The indication that it is a previously published work that is presented recycled with corrections or with new additions is omitted.
Self-plagiarism is not considered when:
Previous work is the basis for a new contribution, and key parts must be repeated to explain and defend the new arguments.
The author considers that what has been developed in previous works cannot be presented in a better way for the new publication.
Repeated passages do not exceed 30% of the original work.
DATA AVAILABILITY Policy
PublicAAHD promotes the transparency and reproducibility of published research so that other researchers can replicate the studies described in their articles, either to corroborate or to refute the results obtained, in accordance with the provisions of National Law 26,899 of Open access institutional digital repositories.
In order to favor the reproducibility of the results, the journal requires that the authors make available and without restrictions the data sets with which they have carried out the research described in their article. If there are limitations derived from ethical or legal causes, the authors should indicate how other researchers should access said data.
All the information and research data sent to Publications of the Argentine Association of Digital Humanities (PublicAAHD) will be uploaded and made available in SEDICI, the repository of the National University of La Plata, in order to increase compliance with the FAIR principles. : Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (the data must be able to be found, accessed, must be found in systems capable of interoperating and must be able to be reused in other investigations).
Authors are encouraged to deposit data in SEDICI, or in any other research data repository (such as Zenodo, where the AAHD has created a thematic repository for DIGITAL HUMANITIES), prior to carrying out the sending the contribution to the magazine. In this way, when submitting the article, only the URL where the research data is located should be indicated.
The authors are requested to use formats that maximize the accessibility and reusability of the data (for example, in the case of using tabular data, it is suggested to use a spreadsheet). If necessary, it is recommended to publish along with the data the algorithms or the treatments (pipelines) that must be carried out on said data for its correct interpretation.
