Open Access policies

Open access policy

The newsletter is published in a digital version, with open and free access through its official website (URL of the portal site) and the different institutional means in which it is included.

The journal adheres response to the declaration of BOAI which describes the following: 

By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public Internet, which allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, transmit them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without more financial, legal or technical barriers that are inseparable from access to the Internet itself, which encourages a greater exchange of global knowledge.

Copyright and permissions

The authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions:

Proceso purpose provides open and immediate access to its content, based on the Open Access Policy from the José Simeón Cañas Central American University. 

In accordance with the Process copyright legislation, it recognizes and respects the moral and patrimonial rights inherent in its authors. Therefore, the journal is responsible for its dissemination in open access in print and digital format, in order to be part of multiple indexers, databases and reference systems in non-profit open access.

In accordance with the above, the contents of the journal are published under license (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0))

This license allows third parties: 

  • Sharing - copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt: remix, transform and build on the material.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as it follows the terms of the license.

Under the following conditions: 

  • Recognition: you must give the appropriate credit, provide a link to the license and indicate whether changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests that the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • Non-commercial: you may not use the material for commercial purposes.
  • Share alike: if you remix, transform or build from the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
  • No additional restrictions: you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything that the license allows.

Article Processing Charges

Proceso does NOT charge authors fees for applying, editorial procedure, article processing (APCs), page charges, color charges, publishing or reading articles.