Focus and Scope
"Textual: análisis del medio rural" is a scientific journal founded in 1979, edited by the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo (UACh), through the Department of Rural Sociology, with the support of the Coordination of Institutional Journals (CORI). As of January 2018, the publication of this journal is bilingual.
The publication is aimed at the international and national scientific-academic community, in the fields of Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Law, History, Psychology and related areas, who reflect on the problems of rural societies.
The journal welcomes original and unpublished contributions, written in Spanish, English, and that are not simultaneously published (partially or totally) in other national and international scientific publications.
Section policies
Scientific articles (by invitation and proposal). They are unpublished writings resulting from scientific research with emphasis on the analysis of socioeconomic, political, cultural and educational problems of rural societies.
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Essays. They are short, original and unpublished writings where the author or authors make known their personal interpretation on a specific topic.
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Critical Reviews or State of the Art. These are writings that are the product of an in-depth, broad and updated review, with a critical approach, in which analytical trends on emerging issues in the analysis of rural issues are characterized.
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Reviews (by invitation and proposal). Text that describes or summarizes the points of view held in a book, in which the reviewer states his or her points of view in agreement or disagreement with the author and invites the reader to read the work.
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Except for reviews and papers, all other types of contributions will be subject to a "double-blind" peer review process.
Archiving
This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archive among participating libraries, allowing these libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes. More information..
Charging policies
This journal does not charge for publishing, reading or downloading full-text articles.
Digital Preservation Policies
The Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, is responsible for providing financial support to the journal Textual: análisis del medio rural, through digital preservation methods, ensures the intellectual content of electronic archival documents, for long periods of time, maintaining its attributes such as integrity, authenticity, unalterability, originality, reliability and accessibility.
PKP Preservation Network (PN)
The PKP Preservation Network provides free preservation services for any OJS journal that meets the basic criteria.
La Textual: análisis del medio rural assigns a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to articles published in the journal. For digital preservation, articles will be archived in LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), thus guaranteeing the journal a permanent and secure archive.
LOCKSS
Open Journal Systems, which hosts Textual: analysis of the rural environment, supports the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system that guarantees the journal a permanent and secure archive. LOCKSS is an open source program developed by the Stanford University Library that allows libraries to curate selected web journals by regularly searching registered journals to collect new published content and archive it. Each archive is continuously validated against records from other libraries, so any damaged or lost content can be restored using those records or the journal itself.
LOCKSS stores and distributes journal content to partner libraries through a LOCKSS Editorial Manifesto page.
CLOCKSS
Open Journal Systems also supports CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) to ensure a permanent and secure archive for the journal. CLOCKSS is based on the open source LOCKSS software developed at Stanford University Library, which allows libraries to preserve chosen web journals by regularly checking registered journal websites for recently published content and archiving it. Each archive is constantly validated against other library caches and, if it is detected that content has been corrupted or lost, the other caches or the journal are used to restore it.