ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Scope and Approach

Informatio is published in two six-month issues annually under continuous publication mode, as a journal of the Information Institute of the School of Information and Communication of the Uruguayan State University (Universidad de la República).

It is intended to publish original and unpublished studies, research results, literature reviews and academic subjects of disciplinary interest, contributing to the development of Information Science, Library Science, Archival Science and related areas, in particular Communication. .

The views expressed in the articles are under the exclusive responsibility of their authors. Contributions from both national and foreign specialists will be accepted, as long as they make a significant input towards the current state of the art in the disciplines of this journal.

Open access policy

This journal provides open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps to foster a greater global knowledge exchange. Open access is immediate and applies to all content. The journal allows its readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link the full text of its articles. The author must NOT pay any fees either for the review of the article or for publication in open access.

Informatio has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Scientific Evaluation (DORA) in which a change in the research evaluation system based on the impact factor is promoted.

We believe that other means of evaluating research and researchers are needed, emphasizing the quality of the research and not its publication, and for this reason we adhere to the aforementioned statement.

Copyright Notice

The authors who publish in this journal agree to the following conditions:

a. The authors retain the copyright and assign the right of the first publication to the journal, with their work registered under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international license, which allows third parties to use what is published, in so far as the authorship of the work and the first publication in this journal are mentioned.

b. Authors may make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (e.g., include it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book) provided they clearly state that the work was first published in this journal.

 c. Authors are allowed and recommended to publish their work on the Internet (for example in institutional or personal sites) before and during the review and publication process, as it can lead to fruitful exchanges and a greater and faster dissemination of the work published. (see The Effect of Open Access).

Peer review process

Informatio is a peer-reviewed journal through a double blind system. It has the collaboration of external evaluators, outside the editorial team and the publishing institution. Each article received is sent to two reviewers with recognized competence in the field, preserving the identity of the author.
The reviewers evaluate each article based on its originality, rigor, academic relevance and real contribution to the current state of the art, through a form sent by the Editorial Board.

In case of a positive opinion from both reviewers, the article is accepted; in case of a negative opinion from both, it is rejected. In case of a negative and a positive opinion, it is sent to a third reviewer, whose opinion decides the ultimate acceptance or rejection of the article.

In the event of a positive opinion with reserves, it is forwarded to the author to make the modification indicated by the reviewer. The term of the review process from the date of receipt of the article to the final notification to the author is six months.

Brief history of the journal

Informatio journal is the result of an editorial policy that has been developed for over 40 years, first from the University Library School and Related Sciences (EUBCA) and currently from the Information Institute of the School of Information and Communication.

This editorial development has its background in the Bulletin of the University School of Library Science, published from the late 1960s until 1983. After a period of discontinuity, in 1995 the format of an EUBCA  institutional publication is resumed  through Informatio journal.

During the period 1995-2011 the journal publishes 16 issues in paper format. From the issue corresponding to 2012, Informatio begins to be published in digital format, until today.

Privacy statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the specific purposes defined therein and will not be provided to third parties or for any other purposes.