About the Journal

Focus And Scope

 

The Revista Ibero-Americana de Ciência da Informação (RICI) is a journal published quarterly by the Graduate Program in Information Science at the Faculty of Information Science at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. It aims to disseminate original scientific papers, unpublished, resulting from research in Information Science and related areas.

RICI publishes original articles, experience reports, ongoing research, interviews, thesis abstracts, opinion papers, essays and reviews related to Information Science or present results of studies and research activities in this area.

Target audience: Archivist, Librarians, Museologist, Information Scientist and professionals related to the field of information.

 Indexing

Our journal and your articles are indexed, deposited and recorded in differents sources with the aim to promote and give greater visibility to their content:

 

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Review article

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Book reviews

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Thesis Abstracts

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Opinion papers

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Essays

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Interviews

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The editors make a pre-analysis of the works received before submitting them to peer review. In this pre-analysis, the following aspects are considered: scope; presentation of the article according to the journal's standards; clearly formulation of the goal; clarity of writing; theoretical foundation; updated literature review; consistency and accuracy of the methodology; results with significant contribution; discussion of the observed facts to those described in the literature; quality of tables and figures; originality and consistency of findings. The works are in accordance with the established criteria will be accepted by at least two external referees.

 

Publication Frequency

RICI's periodicity is quarterly.

 

Open Access Policy

 

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that freely available scientific knowledge to the public supports a greater global democratization of knowledge.

The works published by the RICI are at the same time, free of any restriction and free for distribution provided that preserved the indication publishing vehicle and authorship.

 

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. RICI Keepers Registry. LOCKSS.

 

Fees For Publishing Articles

The journal Revista Ibero-Americana de Ciência da Informação (RICI) does not charge any fee for publishing articles. The editorial board values the policy of free access to information, thus, does not charge any fee for the submission, review, publication, distribution or download of articles.

 

Ethical Guidelines

The Revista Ibero-americana de Ciência da Informação (RICI) follows the principles and standards recommended by COPE (Publications Ethics Committee), an international reference organization in integrity and ethics in scientific publications. Thus, the entire editorial and post-publication process follow the COPE recommendations [available at: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines].

The editors and the editorial board are responsible for taking care of the journal's ethical issues. Any complaint or suspicion of misconduct by authors, reviewers or even the editorial team can be sent to the journal's official email [rici@unb.br], which will be analyzed by the editors, based on the COPE Guides.

In cases involving suspicions of misconduct related to the submission, there will be a check by the editors with a view to ensuring the high standard of scientific and ethical rigor and all doubts are clarified or informed to the readers.

In the event of a finding of misconduct on the part of the authors, the article will be removed from the evaluation process, and RICI, at the decision of the editorial board, refuse to receive future submissions from the authors. If proven misconduct by a member of the editorial team or ad doc reviewer, he will be removed from his duties with the RICI.

The evaluation process is based on the merit of the work, according to the guidelines informed on the page “About the journal” [URL: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/RICI/about] and includes checking the similarity of all submissions.

The evaluation must not be influenced, positively or negatively, for personal reasons or those not followed by the RICI's guidelines. Opinions are not accepted that are not sufficiently justified or that contain offenses or inappropriate attitudes.

The evaluator is expected to remain anonymous in relation to the evaluation, maintain the confidentiality of the reviewed articles. In case of any conflict of interest, the evaluator must inform the editors before acceptance or during the evaluation process in the form provided in the journal's system. When faced with any irregularity in relation to the article under analysis, the evaluator must inform the editor.

The authors are fully responsible for the content. Regarding doubts related to the inclusion of co-authors, order of names, among others, it is recommended to consult the Guide for authors of COPE and CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy, URL: https://casrai.org/credit/).

On the other hand, the author(s) must declare the existence of conflict of interests (financial, professional or of any other substantive nature that may be interpreted as an influential factor in the results of the research or in the interpretation of these results), when applicable, using the corresponding field of the journal system during the submission process.

Likewise, the author(s) must disclose all sources of financial support for the project.

Finally, the author(s) must immediately notify the journal's Editorial Team if they discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, in addition to collaborating with Editorial Team to retract or correct the article.