Open Science Policy

Alteridades recognizes and is committed to open science, understanding it as the set of practices aimed at expanding access, circulation, transparency, collaboration, and the social use of academic knowledge. The journal publishes its content under an open access model, and readers can access it free of charge. Alteridades imposes no financial barriers to accessing its articles or consulting its editorial materials.

The journal strives to keep its editorial policies, guidelines for authors, evaluation criteria, information about its editorial bodies, ethical procedures, and basic editorial identification data available and up to date. When the nature of the work permits, authors are encouraged to make available supplementary materials, research instruments, appendices, documentary sources, files, or repositories related to the article, provided that this does not violate rights, confidentiality, informed consent, personal data protection, or ethical commitments to participating communities and individuals.

The disclosure of information shall not be mandatory when it could affect security, privacy, collective rights, confidentiality agreements, intellectual property, or the ethical conditions of the research. In particular, anthropological research must take into account the commitments made to the individuals, groups, and communities involved.

Alteridades promotes practices that contribute to the digital preservation, visibility, interoperability, and retrieval of its academic content.

Public Communication of Knowledge

Alteridades recognizes the public communication of knowledge as an essential aspect of academic and publishing life. In addition to reaching specialized communities, the journal seeks to ensure that research findings can be discovered, accessed, and utilized by broader audiences.

The journal strengthens the public communication of knowledge by disseminating new issues and articles through institutional channels, publishing clear abstracts and complete metadata, promoting content on academic networks and repositories, engaging with university activities, using clear language in communications aimed at non-specialist audiences, and preserving accessible digital archives.

Public communication of knowledge respects the integrity of published content, avoiding oversimplification and properly acknowledging the authorship of the works disseminated.

Alteridades’ public communication seeks to broaden the social reach of anthropological research and contribute to the democratization of knowledge, without compromising the journal’s academic and specialized nature.

Web Accessibility Statement and Basic Plan

Alteridades recognizes web accessibility as a necessary condition for expanding access to academic knowledge. The journal is committed to gradually strengthening the accessibility of its website, documents, metadata, and digital files, with the aim of facilitating access to its content for diverse users, including those who use assistive technologies.

The journal maintains a clear navigation structure, uses understandable headings and subheadings, publishes readable PDF and XML files, includes complete metadata, avoids images containing essential text without alternative descriptions, checks links, ensures sufficient contrast between text and background, facilitates access on various devices, and periodically reviews the availability of issues, articles, and editorial policies.

Full Waiver of Fees

Based on the premise that knowledge should be a common good, Alteridades maintains an open call for submissions to receive, review, and publish works that strictly comply with our Editorial Criteria, at no cost to authors or readers, through the OJS platform. 

Licenses

Considering that open access to the journal is not sufficient and that it is necessary to reuse our content, authors will retain their copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which allows third parties to share the work provided that the author and its first publication in this journal are cited.

Self-Archiving

Alteridades encourages the self-archiving of its content as part of its commitment to open access, academic circulation, and the preservation of knowledge. Authors may deposit the published version of their article in institutional, academic, or personal repositories, provided that the original source of publication in Alteridades is fully cited and the corresponding link to the journal’s website is included. Self-archiving must comply with the journal’s publication license, copyright, and the integrity of the published text. Modifying the content of the published version in a way that causes confusion regarding the original edition is not permitted.

It is recommended that self-archiving be done in institutional repositories, subject-specific repositories, academic profiles, or non-commercial platforms that promote the preservation, retrieval, and public access to the article. Any self-archived version must include the complete citation of the article—including the journal name, volume, issue, year, page numbers, or corresponding identifier—as well as the link to the article’s official record on the Alteridades website.

Persistent Identifiers

Alteridades integrates ORCID and DOI persistent identifiers to ensure access, digital preservation, and interoperability of its content.

Digital Preservation

Alteridades uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed storage system among participating libraries and enables the creation of permanent archives within the journal for preservation and restoration purposes. In addition, it preserves all documents it publishes electronically by creating a backup every 3 weeks at the Library and the Computing Services Coordination Office of the Iztapalapa Campus of the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), as well as at the Information Technology Department of the UAM’s General Rector’s Office.  This enables digital access to the documents, as well as their long-term preservation and future conversion to different digital formats when necessary.