Declaration on Publishing Ethics and good practices of the Virtual Classroom Magazine, attached to the Virtual Classroom Foundation

The Aula Virtual Magazine is committed to guaranteeing ethics in the publication and quality of the products presented, in accordance with the standards of ethical behavior established by the COPE Code of Conduct for Magazine Editors (Committee on Publication)

https://publicationethics.org/files/COPE_G_A4_SG_Ethical_Editing_May19_SCREEN_AW-website.pdf

https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

For all parties involved: director, editors, authors and / or arbitrators.

 

Editor in chief:

Previous: The Chief Editor will carry out a prior evaluation of the scientific productions presented by the authors and will assign to the reviewers those that comply with the formats, norms and scientific standards established by the Aula Virtual Journal.

Anonymity: The Chief Editor of the Aula Virtual Journal must guarantee the review of the products anonymously, by two Reviewers who are experts in the object of study and the methodology used in the scientific production presented by the author.

Productive Integrity: The Chief Editor and the Editorial Committee of the Aula Virtual Journal must not use the research information without the express written consent of the author and must take reasonable measures in response to complaints related to a document presented or published.

Times: The Editor-in-Chief agrees to comply with and enforce the periods established by the Aula Virtual Magazine, this in order to give a timely response to the authors.

Conflict: The Editor-in-Chief must ensure that each product received is evaluated on its intellectual content, regardless of the authors' sex, race, religion, nationality.

Publication: The Chief Editor is responsible for the final publication of the scientific production presented by the author, this after the Approval of the Evaluating Experts (double-blind arbitration). Said publication will be made in the corresponding number according to the presentation of the final and corrected scientific production.

Reviewers:

Subject Area: The reviewers undertake to submit to the review process the scientific productions that are carried out in the area of knowledge in which they maintain competence.

Contribution: The reviewers undertake to carry out an objective, unbiased, honest and constructive critical work on the scientific production they evaluate, thus helping the author to improve their scientific production and, in turn, helping the publisher to maintain high editorial standards.

Times: The referees agree to comply with the times established by the Aula Virtual Magazine for the review process, this in order to comply with the Evaluation Deadlines established by the Aula Virtual Magazine.

Confidentiality: The referees undertake not to disclose the results of their reviews, nor with their peers, authors or the general public; the results of their evaluation will only be transmitted to the Editor-in-Chief of the Aula Virtual Journal so that he can transfer said results or observations to the authors.

Duplicity: The referees agree to inform the Chief Editor of the duplicity, similarity or detection of plagiarism of the scientific productions that he evaluates or detects in an issue published by the Aula Virtual Journal.

Value Judgment: The referees refrain from issuing a value judgment on the scientific productions evaluated, they will apply the "Varemos" provided by the editorial committee to capture the results of their evaluation.

Conflict: the referees will carry out the evaluation of the scientific productions as long as there is no conflict of interest, ethical, political, cultural or of any kind.

Authors:

Originality: The author responsible for the content of the article must certify that his work is original, unpublished, of his own. The author maintains the copyright and authorizes the Journal to disclose it; In the event that the authorship falls on more than one author, all the authors adhere to the guidelines of the Aula Virtual Magazine.

Exclusivity: The Author guarantees and declares that the scientific production has not been previously disseminated or published, nor has it been simultaneously sent to any other publisher for publication; except in summary form.

Authorship: In the case of more than one author, the responsible or main author of the article must guarantee that all the authors of this work are included as authors of the scientific production and have read and approved the product.

Sources: The author must correctly provide sources consulted for the realization of the scientific production, using the standards to which the Aula Virtual journal adheres (APA Standards).
Responsibility: The author is responsible for the results presented in his scientific production, attesting to their veracity.

Disclosure conflicts: The author declares that there is no conflict in the results presented in his scientific production, nor in the disclosure thereof.

Publication Request: Each of the authors must complete the specific Publication Request document available at www.aulavirtual.web.ve/revista/ojs. The author(s) responsible for the publication undertakes to guarantee intellectual and ethical standards.

Plagiarism: The journal requires originality in the scientific productions submitted for publication, in this sense, the author adheres to good editorial practices using the dating techniques established in the APA Standard. Authors who carry out plagiarism or fraud in their scientific productions will be penalized with the elimination of their production and the banning of the Aula Virtual Journal.

Editorial Errors: The author undertakes to notify the existence of errors, disparities or inaccuracies in his scientific production, to himself, he undertakes to collaborate with the Aula Virtual Journal to correct it.

The author agrees to abide by the results that emanate from the referees' reviews.