Open Access Policy

The journal Interacción y Perspectiva adheres to an open access policy based on the principle that free availability of scientific research promotes greater global exchange of knowledge. Under this scheme, the publication allows free and unrestricted access to all its content from the moment of publication, enabling the academic community and the general public to read, download, and share articles without economic or technical barriers, always in accordance with the relevant intellectual property and citation rules.

 

Intellectual Property Policy

The journal “Interacción y Perspectiva: Revista de Trabajo Social” (Interaction and Perspective: Social Work Journal) of the University of Zulia maintains a rigorous intellectual property policy, aligned with international copyright standards. The main guidelines are detailed below:

1. Copyright

• Ownership: authors who submit their manuscripts to the journal retain the copyright to their content.
• Transfer of publication rights: by submitting an article, authors grant the journal the right to publish and distribute it in electronic format.
• Author responsibility: it is the responsibility of authors to obtain the necessary permissions for the use of materials protected by third-party rights and to ensure the correct citation of all sources used.

2. Open Access and Creative Commons License

• Availability: the journal adopts an open access policy, ensuring that published articles are available free of charge to readers in the digital environment.
• Licensing:  the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license is used, under which you are free to share and adapt the material in any medium or format, whether to copy, redistribute, remix, or transform it, provided that the licensor does not revoke these freedoms upon fulfillment of the license terms. To do so, you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made without suggesting that you have the licensor's support. In addition, you may not use the material for commercial purposes, and if you create a derivative work, you must distribute it under the same original license, without applying legal restrictions or additional technological measures that limit the uses permitted to third parties.

3. Use of Protected Material

• Respect for third-party property: the journal promotes strict compliance with external copyright laws.
• Specific permissions: authors must obtain authorization for the inclusion of elements such as images, tables, or protected text excerpts.
• Verification: the editorial board reserves the right to request evidence of such permissions when deemed appropriate.

4. Ethics and Plagiarism Prevention

• Zero tolerance: there is a strict policy against plagiarism and any form of scientific malpractice.
• Detection: specialized technological tools are used to verify the originality of each proposal received.
• Sanctions: if inappropriate behavior is identified, the journal will take the necessary corrective actions, which may include retraction of the article or formal notification to the authors' affiliated institutions.

Plagiarism Detection Policy

Interacción y Perspectiva Journal

Interacción y Perspectiva journal is firmly committed to the originality of the works it publishes and to academic integrity. Therefore, it applies a strict plagiarism detection policy to ensure that all manuscripts are the product of original and ethical research.

1. Declaration of originality

At the time of submission, authors must formally declare that the manuscript is original, that it has not been previously published in any other medium (in whole or in part), and that it is not currently under review by another journal.

2. Verification Procedure

All manuscripts received, without exception, undergo a screening process before being sent for peer review. The process follows this flow:

Software Tools and Similarity Detection

The journal guarantees the originality of published works through the use of specialized text similarity detection tools and high-precision open-access software.

These systems compare each manuscript with a global index that includes:

Scientific databases: More than 200 million articles and books from academic publishers (via Crossref Similarity Check).

Institutional repositories: theses, dissertations, and documents hosted by universities and research centers worldwide.

Web Content: more than 91 billion current and archived pages on the internet.

Acceptance Criteria: a maximum similarity percentage of 20% is established, provided that this does not concentrate in a single block of text. For the calculation of this percentage, bibliographic references and textual citations that are duly accredited and formatted according to the journal's standards will be excluded. If this margin is exceeded, the manuscript will be returned to the author for revision or, in cases of obvious plagiarism, it will be rejected outright.

3. Evaluation Criteria

The following practices are considered unacceptable and grounds for immediate rejection:

• Direct plagiarism: verbatim copying of texts without the use of quotation marks or the corresponding citation.
• Inappropriate paraphrasing: slightly modifying another author's words while maintaining the structure of the idea without giving the respective credit.
• Self-plagiarism (or redundant publication): use of significant fragments of one's own previously published works without properly referencing them.
• Multiple submission: submitting the same work to several journals at the same time.

4. Actions upon detection of plagiarism

Depending on the severity of the case, the Editorial Committee will act in accordance with COPE protocols:

• Minor similarity. If deficiencies in citations are detected but there is evidence of good faith, authors will be asked to correct the references before continuing with the process.
• Evident plagiarism. If plagiarism or lack of originality is confirmed, the manuscript will be rejected outright. The authors will be formally notified and, depending on the severity, their affiliated institutions will be informed.
• Post-publication plagiarism. If plagiarism is detected after the article has been published, the journal will proceed with the public retraction of the article in accordance with international regulations.

Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Interacción y Perspectiva journal recognizes the potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) tools to assist in academic research and writing. However, to ensure scientific integrity and responsible authorship, the following guidelines are established:

1. Authorship and responsibility

• AI cannot be an author. Under no circumstances will an AI tool (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) be accepted as an author or co-author of a manuscript. Authorship implies legal and ethical responsibility that only humans can assume.
• Author responsibility. Human authors are 100% responsible for the content of their work, including the accuracy of data, the veracity of bibliographic references, and the absence of plagiarism, even if they used AI to generate parts of the text or analyze data.

2. Transparency and Disclosure

If authors have used AI tools at any stage of the research or writing process, they must explicitly disclose this in the manuscript:

• In the methodology. If AI was used for data analysis, information gathering, or experimental design.
• In an “Acknowledgments” or “AI Disclosure” section. If it was used to improve writing, translate text, or generate drafts. The tool used and its purpose must be specified.

3. Critical restrictions

• Data and image generation. The use of AI to create fictitious research data (invented “findings”) or to generate scientific images (graphs, maps, micrographs) that alter the reality of the results is not permitted.
• Citation integrity. AI is known to generate “hallucinations” (false bibliographic citations). It is the author's strict duty to manually verify each reference cited.
• Originality. AI-generated text should not replace the researcher's analytical and critical abilities. The journal prioritizes original thinking and human interpretation of social phenomena.

4. Guidelines for Reviewers (Peer review)

• Confidentiality. Reviewers are strictly prohibited from uploading manuscripts received for evaluation into generative AI tools. This constitutes a violation of confidentiality and the intellectual property rights of the authors.
• Bias assessment. Reviewers should be alert to possible biases or common logical errors in machine-generated content.
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Digital Preservation Policy

Interacción y Perspectiva Journal

Interacción y Perspectiva journal, aware of the importance of ensuring the accessibility, integrity, and long-term permanence of its scientific output, has established the following digital preservation policy. The aim is to ensure that published articles remain accessible and readable despite the deterioration of media or the obsolescence of technological formats.

1. Archiving through preservation networks (LOCKSS and CLOCKSS)

The journal uses the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) systems to ensure permanent and secure archiving. Through the PKP PN (Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network) preservation network, the journal's content is distributed to various libraries and servers around the world, ensuring that if the journal ceases publication or the original server suffers a critical failure, the information can be recovered.

2. Use of persistent identifiers (DOI)

Each article published in Interacción y Perspectiva has a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) managed through Zenodo. This identifier guarantees a permanent and direct link to the content, regardless of whether the journal's URL changes in the future, thus facilitating citation and consistent location of the work.

3. Self-protection and backups

The University of Zulia (LUZ) platform performs the following internal security processes:

• Regular backups. Automatic replicas of the database and OJS system files are made.
• Redundant storage. Files are stored on redundant servers to prevent data loss due to physical hardware failures.

4. Formats and data migration

To minimize the risk of obsolescence, the journal is committed to standard and widely accepted formats:

• PDF (Portable Document Format). Main distribution format.
• HTML. Structured formats that facilitate data migration and interoperability with other research systems.
• The journal undertakes to periodically review its technological environment in order to migrate files to new formats if the current ones are no longer compatible with browsers and digital readers.

5. Interoperability and Institutional Repository

As part of its visibility and preservation strategy, the journal promotes:

• OAI-PMH Protocol. Facilitates the collection of metadata by international repositories and databases.
• Self-archiving. Authors are allowed and encouraged to deposit the final version of their work in institutional (such as LUZ) or thematic repositories, thus ensuring multiple points of preservation.