About the Journal
The Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Información, founded in 1996, was a novelty in the panorama of Spanish university communication journals. Attached to the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University. The Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Información is a non-commercial scientific journal, with an uninterrupted edition since its foundation year. The process of evolution of knowledge generated that, to the thematic axes originally raised, others were added to respond to the new spaces of knowledge generated in the 21st-century.
The magazine is bilingual Spanish / English. The official language of the journal is Spanish, although contributions are accepted in the original English, French, Italian and Portuguese languages. As of the year 2021, it is published continuously, uploading the articles individually as the editorial process is completed in electronic format with free access.
Alerts
If you wish to subscribe to the journal's content advertisement service, send an email to: editor@revistaccinformación.net. You will receive an alert when each new issue of the Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Información is published.
Open-Access Policy
This journal provides open digital access to promote free access to scientific documentation. The paper edition can be obtained by subscription to cover printing and shipping costs. The Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Informacion provides immediate free access to its content under the principle of making research freely available to the public (Creative Commons Attribution/Non-Commercial 4.0 International), which fosters a greater global knowledge exchange. Readers can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link the full text of the articles, as well as use it for any other purpose within the current legislation and the ethical imperative of always citing the source. Likewise, we inform that the Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Informacion adheres to the Berlin Declaration.
Interoperability protocol
The journal has incorporated the interoperability protocol. The OAI-PMH protocol (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), for this, you can access the URL: http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites, to search your data record. OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) is a protocol used for the transmission of metadata on the Internet.
Digital preservation policy
Digital preservation can be seen as a set of processes and activities that ensure that information that now exists in digital formats is backed up and distributed to ensure long-term continuous access.
The RCCI has established a preservation policy for its digital files that includes the following measures:
Backups
Converting formats to safer ones
Regular checks on the integrity of files to avoid corruption
Monitoring of the technological environment to anticipate possible migrations of obsolete formats or software.
The preservation policy includes the assignment of DOIs to the title of the journal, each issue, and each article.
The digital preservation policy will be reviewed periodically.
Publishing fees
The journal is free as no publishing or reading fees are charged.