Peer Review Process

For the review of the articles, a group of experts, teachers, researchers and professionals in the areas of interest as evaluators are integrated in the editorial committee, which are external to the publishing institution, it is estimated in a period of 1 year to have a database of possible arbitrators that will be registered in the magazine's web portal, its evaluation will be carried out by double blind modality, the editorial board will be the one that designates the arbitrators for each article, without the author knowing the reviewer and vice versa, which guarantees the transparency and veracity of the review avoiding conflicts of interest.

Ethical criteria.

The journal has as its principle the open access to scientific information so it allows the copying and distribution of its editions, always respecting copyright, its commercial use of the works is totally and partially or totally prohibited. The Editorial Board reserves the right to introduce changes in style and / or limit the texts that require it, committing to respect the original content.

The Journal for its part is not responsible for the opinions or criteria of the authors, nor accepts works that have been previously published or are considered by the Editorial Board of another national or foreign magazine. Publication rules can be consulted before submitting an online article on the magazine site.

Review by the URKUND system: To guarantee the originality of the articles published by the journal, all the documents sent will be analyzed by the URKUND system, it is considered acceptable when the document has less than 3% matches in other sources.

Open Access Policy

This magazine provides immediate free access to its content under the principle that making research freely available to the public, which encourages greater global knowledge sharing.

Archived

DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICIES
The Bolivarian Identity magazine bases its digital preservation policy on the guidelines established by the LOCKSS system (PKP PN) for OJS, this allows to create a file distributed among the participating libraries, allowing these libraries to create permanent archives of the magazine for preservation purposes and restoration. However, for version OJS 3.0 it is under development. Therefore, the magazine is awaiting its update and advances actions to belong to the Open Access Global Network LOCKSS.
Thus, the content of the electronic documents is ensured, for the periods of time established in the Law of Archives of Ecuador and the corresponding Regulations of the Superior Technological Institute of Bolivarian Technology; providing protected information of: integrity, inalterability and originality.
In this sense, the following measures are established to achieve digital backup and preservation:
Keep copies of the journals published on the third day of going online, on corresponding DVDs, stored annually in the ITB library; creating a copy on the mobile external disk that the editor of the magazine has, where a daily save of the number that is worked is made.
In both cases, data integrity control mechanisms are used when making copies, using redundancy algorithms that verify that the data is maintained as recorded.
In this sense, the Bolivarian Identity magazine conditions the digital integrity since, on the one hand, it has been diagnosed the possible causes of defects in the digital information or loss of data such as: management and negligence errors, technical and mechanical failures, errors of the operator, virus, unauthorized and undocumented changes, obsolescence or incompatibility of software, loss of programs, incomplete metadata, aging of information.
On the other hand, it has developed a digital preservation strategy that integrates the following procedures:
Storage of digital resources with great care, without reference to external documentation.
System, data or documentation dependencies are minimized.
The LOCKSS digital preservation system (http://www.lockss.org/) from Stanford University is used. In its version for OJS

This offers digital preservation services, in open source, with the aim of providing and permanently preserving access to the digital content generated through our publication. In addition, it allows you to share digital content securely among participating libraries.
• The information is converted to new formats. It is a measure against obsolescence.
• A process for recovering information from damaged, fragmented or archaic data sources is applied.
• Information is stored in formats that are widely used today.
In summary, the Bolivarian Identity magazine performs systematic preservation actions, such as: data rejuvenation, consistency checks, migration, emulation, technology preservation and digital archeology.

Identidad Bolivariana

The Identidad Bolivariana journal is a serial, free open electronic publication of biannual frequency, it is made in the months of January and June. which is established as the means of scientific-technical dissemination of Instituto Superior Tecnológico Bolivariano de Tecnología (ITB) of the city of Guayaquil Ecuador, is projected as a space for scientific reflection for professionals in the areas of humanistic, economic, technical sciences , health and others with an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature, as well as all teachers of higher education interested in these topics, the journal is managed by the ITB Research Directorate and is edited by the Center for Scientific Information Management and Technology Transfer (CEGESICTT).