Open access and reuse policies

Tecnología en Marcha follows the principles of the international movement of Open Access, as set out in the Budapest Declaration, where the access to publications without any technological or economical barriers is established. In other words, the Declaration guarantees free access, irrevocable and worldwide, to the information published, so as to copy it, reuse it, distribute it, transmit it, exhibit it, and make adaptations or derivations of it, as well as distribute the latter, provided that proper acknowledgments to the author(s) are granted. Moreover, this Journal allows access to a complete version of the articles and their supplementary materials, with a notice of permission for their use in electronic formats and their reserve in institutional, academic, or governmental repositories.

Author rights

All the articles the Journal publishes are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Authors retain copyright and give the Journal the first publication rights up, as well as the rights to edit, reproduce, distribute, display, and communicate them, inside the country and abroad, through print or electronic media. Besides, they assume their commitment over any litigation or claim related to intellectual property rights, releasing Editorial Tecnológica de Costa Rica from any liability concerning therewith.

The license also grants the authors the possibility to make contractual agreements independently from the present one and additionally to it, for the not exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this Journal (for example, to include it in an institutional repository or in a book), provided that they clearly indicate that the work was published in this Journal for the first time.

 

Anti-plagiarism policies

During the editorial process, every manuscript submitted to the Journal will be checked over with the tool for detection of plagiarism of the TEC-Digital platform, that functions with the software Turnitin. This checking-over consists in a textual comparison between the manuscript and the TEC-Digital database, which includes international databases, and then the generation of a similarity report. Each manuscript will be evaluated in particular and emphasis will be given to those which prove to held more than a 15% similarity. In this case, authors will be notified about the report ͐s results and their opportunity to make corrections related to omitted citation of sources, or in other cases, the rejection of the manuscript when intentional plagiarism is detected.  

 

Digital preservation policies

Internal, secure storage on cloud.
Institutional, all articles are deposited in Institutional Repository.
National, deposit on Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas (SINABI).
Internacional, PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN).

Code of ethics and good publishing practice

Tecnología en Marcha encourages those involved at any time in the editorial process (authors, Editorial team, peer reviewers, external collaborators, etc.) to comply with ethic norms as it corresponds; therefore, the Journal makes its Internal Code of Ethics and Good Practice available.

Funding sources

Editorial Tecnoloógica de Costa Rica and Consejo Nacional de Rectores (CONARE).