Ethical Policy

H-ART. Revista de historia, teoría y crítica de arte of art is a publication funded by the department of Art History of the School of Arts and Humanities at the Universidad de los Andes, responsible for the financial support of the publication. The journal is located on the calle 18ª N. 0–07 east, Ñb building Office  103, Bogotá, Colombia. Contact telephone: (571) 3394949 Ext 2521. The web page is https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/hart and the e-mail address is revistahart@uniandes.edu.co.

The journal has the following structure: an Editor, an Editorial Manager, Editorial Committee and Scientific Committee that guarantees the quality and relevance of the contents. The members of the Editorial Committee and the Scientific Committee are evaluated biannually with respect to their prestige within the discipline and their academic production.

The articles presented to H-ART must be original and unpublished and must not be simultaneously undergoing a process of evaluation or have editorial commitments with any other publication. If the authors of an article published in the journal wish to include it in another publication at a later date (journal, compilation or book) they must obtain the authorization of the Editor and indicate the data of the original publication. In the same way, when the journal has an interest in reproducing a previously published article, it is committed to requesting the corresponding authorization from the original publisher.

Responsibilities of the author

The authors should remit their articles through OJS within the time limits established in each call for papers. The journal has publicly accessible norms for authors, with the requirements for the presentation of articles, as well as the editing rules that can be consulted on the web page or at the end of the printed version of the journal.

The authors agree to submit their texts to a plagiarism detection test and to the evaluations of the Editorial Team and of the two external evaluators, and they agree to take the resulting observations into account for making the adjustments requested. These modifications and corrections to the manuscript should be done within the time limit indicated by the editor. After the journal receives the modified article, the author is informed of the final decision and of the following steps in the publishing process, during which time the author must resolve concerns and requests of the Editorial Team with respect to the article. The decision to publish or reject articles is made by the Editorial Team, taking into account the concept of evaluators. This decision will be announced to the author in written by the Editorial Team.

The Editorial Team reserves the last word on the publication of articles and the issue in which they are to be published. That publication date will be respected as long as the author delivers all the documentation requested within the indicated time limit. The journal reserves the right to make minor corrections of style.

The authors of the texts that are accepted authorize, by signing the "Document of Authorization of Use of Intellectual Property Rights," the use of the author’s economic rights (reproduction, public communication, transformation and distribution) to the Universidad de los Andes, in order to include the text in H-ART (electronic version and printed version). In the same document the authors confirm that the text is of their own authorship and that the intellectual rights of third parties are respected in it.

Peer / Responsibilities of evaluators

Upon receiving an article, the Editorial Board evaluates if it meets the basic requirements. The review by the Editorial Board sets the first filter considering format, quality and relevance. After this first review, the articles that begin the peer reviewing process are defined. Articles are, in this instance, subject to the evaluation of two anonymous referees external to the committee. The decision to publish or reject articles is made by the Editorial Team, taking into account the concept of evaluators. This decision will be announced to the author in written by the Editorial Team.

Items that pass the first filter review are subject to a peer review process who may define, in the evaluation form, if they approve, approve with modifications or reject the article. The evaluators must declare on the evaluation format that they have no conflict of interest with the authors or with the topics on which they are going to render judgment. When there is any doubt, the evaluator is replaced.

Editorial responsibilities

The Editorial Team of the journal, the editorial committee and the scientific committee are responsible for defining the editorial policies so that H-ART meets the standards that make it possible for it to be positioned as an academic publication of internationally recognized quality

The Editorial Team is responsible for choosing the best articles to be published. This selection is based on the recommendations derived from the process of evaluation and from the process of editorial review of the article, in which the main criteria are quality and relevance, originality and contributions to the field.

When H-ART receives complaints of any type, the Editorial Team responds promptly, in accordance with the norms it has established and, when warranted, it must ensure that the complaint receives the attention it deserves in order to help resolve the problem. When a lack of precision is recognized in a published content, the Editorial Committee is consulted and the corrections and/or clarifications are made on the journal’s web page.

The journal declares that all the articles it receives are submitted to a plagiarism detection test (Safeassign). If the software detects a high degree of similarity or some information without the corresponding citation, the journal will contact the author requesting comments in this regard. The final decision on accepting or rejecting the article will be made by the editor, taking into account the author's comments.

As soon as an issue of the journals is published, the editor is responsible for its distribution to the authors and to the entities that have been established in swap arrangements, as well as repositories and systems of national and international indexing. Similarly, the publisher will take care of sending the journal to active subscribers.

The Editorial Team is responsible for, once the final version of each issue is published, to have a file backup. Likewise, it allows its authors to include their articles in institutional and thematic repositories and academic social networks (www.academia.web).

H-ART guarantees its digital preservation through the archive system of OJS.