About the Journal

Maestro y Sociedad (MyS) is the scientific body for the dissemination of pedagogical, educational, social, humanistic, economic, technical and other sciences with an interdisciplinary nature of the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the Universidad de Oriente, it is edited by the publishing label of Ediciones UO. It publishes serial issues quarterly (January-March, April-June, July-September, October-December) in continuous publication in Spanish, English and Portuguese. It is registered in the National Registry of Serial Publications 2079 with the ISSN (electronic): 1815-4867.

Mission

Publish and disseminate the results of research by professionals linked to pedagogical, educational, social, humanistic, economic, technical and other sciences with an interdisciplinary nature.

Purpose

The Maestro y Sociedad publication policy covers all education professionals (or those linked to this sector) with the need to communicate the results of their scientific productions as well as access it to manage information, new knowledge, collaborate, update or relate as long as they comply with the author's current instructions and their articles are evaluated and approved by the designated referees after discussion in the publications commission of the Scientific Council and the Editorial Committee. It aims to motivate specialists and researchers in pedagogical, educational, social, humanistic, economic, technical and other sciences with an interdisciplinary nature to develop and perfect research and provide solutions to problems, as well as increase knowledge in the branches. that occupy them.

Principles

• Institutional responsibility

1. Statement. When information from the education sector (its activities, missions, organizations, publications) is published in Maestro y Sociedad for public access, there must be a clear responsibility for that content.
2. Reason. Maestro y Sociedad is a serial publication of the Universidad de Oriente responsible for the visibility of the scientific production, so that any information that is published must always have institutional and professional support in accordance with that mission.
3. Implications. The documents, images or any resource that is published in the magazine and that represents any entity in the territory must be accompanied, to the best extent possible, by an identification of the responsible organization, the person or those responsible for that entity and the published information.

• Support, validity and maintenance of information and services

1. Statement. It is important that the information that is made public in Maestro y Sociedad by users, is adequately supported, maintained and validated by the responsible organization.
2. Reason. The autor(s) must ensure the integrity and authenticity of the information published in Maestro y Sociedad, so that the information of their organization is adequately represented and the policies and current regulations are fulfilled.
3. Implications. To guarantee this principle, compliance with the corporate purpose must be ensured and institutional spaces should be used to evaluate and authorize the publication. Every document must explicitly state its source, authorship and date of production.

Section Policies

Original articles

• They describe original research results.
• They must make a significant contribution to the field of research. Length: 10 to 25 pages, including tables and figures, font: Times New Roman 12 points, 1.5 spacing.
• Number of authors: Up to 5.
• Number of tables and figures: maximum 15 in total.
• Number of bibliographic references: More than 5.
• Authors must declare the presence or absence of conflicts of interest in relation to the research presented; this must be written at the end of the document.

Peer review

Maestro y Sociedad conducts open peer review tailored to the goals of Open Science, which includes openness of reviewer and author identities, publication of review reports, interaction between parties, and increased participation in the review process. Peer Review.

Phases of the evaluation process of an article:

• Phase 1: sending the original. The author can also send arbitrations prepared by recognized science professionals. However, the journal reserves the right to take this recommendation into consideration or not.
• Phase 2: assessment by the journal's editorial team of the submission received; it is analyzed with anti-plagiarism software and it is decided whether the work will be reviewed by experts or whether it will be discarded, either for formal or content reasons.
• Phase 3: evaluation of the original by two experts in the corresponding thematic field. In the event that the author sends the arbitration carried out, it will be processed for verification by the editorial committee of the journal. The journal offers instructions and a form, which allows reviewers to assess the quality and relevance of articles.
• Phase 4: exchange and consensus between authors and/or reviewers.
• Phase 5: sending the result of the evaluation to those responsible for the journal.
• Phase 6: socialization of the number.

Editorial process

The journal uses the Open Journal System for managing the editorial process, which automates this procedure:

1. The author sends the manuscript to Revista Universidad y Sociedad. For your shipment you must always do it through the platform. Therefore, you must register on the website https://maestroysociedad.uo.edu.cu/index.php/MyS/user/register

2. Before definitively sending the file, it is necessary for the authors to verify that they have entered the appropriately placed metadata on the platform. The files uploaded to the platform must not exceed 3Mb in weight.

3. The author will receive confirmation of receipt of his article within 10 days of its submission. In the period of one month from said reception, the Maestro y Sociedad magazine has the obligation to give an answer to its authors in relation to: Admission of the work and sending to evaluation by the experts. If there is a rejection by the Editorial Board before the article is sent for evaluation, if it is considered that it presents formal or thematic deficiencies that are important enough to not continue with the procedure. The need to make essential formal changes before it is passed on to evaluation by experts. The journal is committed to following the recommendations made by its evaluators. In the event that the author suggests a possible reviewer for his article or sends an arbitration carried out by a scientific professional, the journal reserves the right to take said recommendation into consideration or not.

4. Regarding the positions of the reviewers, the following criteria will be followed: If the two evaluators agree on the appropriateness of its publication, its authors will be informed in this way, in a single document. If both experts give a negative opinion, the article will be rejected. If there is a discrepancy, a third evaluator will be consulted to decide its approval or the editor will decide. If the evaluators consider it necessary to make changes, a second version will be requested from the authors. The decision on this version will be decisive to issue a final judgement.

5. The article will go to correction. The galley proofs will be sent to the author in .pdf. Once the modifications have been made by the authors, they can send it via email, within a Word document.

When there is more than one author, the corrected article will be sent only to the person who indicated the group when sending the original version and the communication will be with this person, unless the Director and/or Editor is indicated otherwise. The editor-corrector will receive back a single document with all the requested changes. In no case may the article be modified in such a way that it changes the final version approved by the evaluators.

 Policy for declaration of conformity with Open Science principles

Open science is projected as the new modus operandi for conducting and communicating research with emphasis on the transparency of processes and the exchange of content in open access in favor of methodological rigor and cooperation between researchers. The advancement of open science depends on the proactive action of all the actors and instances of scientific research, among which the journals, their editors and reviewers stand out. Since 2018, SciELO has promoted, together with journals and the scientific community, the adoption of open science practices in four dimensions of scientific communication, in order to ensure that the quality journals it indexes follow the state of the art in scientific communication. which Master and Society adopts:

• First dimension: harmonization of the adoption of open access, with regard to the adoption of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. for all articles and retention by authors of copyright, starting in January 2024.
• Second dimension: inclusion of the preprint modality and continuous publication in the flow of scientific communication.
• Third dimension: Exchange of data, codes, methods and other materials used and resulting from the research that normally underlie the texts of articles published in journals. This content is generically identified as “research data.” This sharing is the responsibility of the researchers involved in the research and they must inform the journal at the time of sending the manuscript. Every manuscript must be accompanied by a declaration section on the availability of the research data, which will be published in the final version of the article.
• Fourth dimension: Manuscript peer review process, which should be as informed as possible. The articles must contain in the final version the name of the editor(s) responsible for the evaluation process.

More information at: 

https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

In accordance with this open access policy, Maestro y Sociedad is published under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

File

The journal is part of the Public Knowledge Project's Private LOCKSS Network (PKP-PLN) to digitally preserve magazines that use OJS.

This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed storage system among participating libraries and allows the creation of permanent archives in the journal for preservation and restoration purposes. More...

In addition, the journal has an internal self-archiving policy that allows all published information to be preserved and restored. The backup is carried out in an institutional repository in which the final corrected versions of the documents are self-archived in PDF and HTML display formats. Likewise, the editorial bases of the journal are saved and archived in XML format.

Publication frequency

Maestro y Sociedad publishes a volume each year divided into four issues, according to a quarterly periodicity (January-March, April-June, July-September, October-December), in continuous publication, that is, the article is published immediately. If approved in the peer review, edited, corrected and laid out, taking into account the publication date, it will be the number that makes up the magazine (Number 1. January-March, Number 2. April-June, Number 3. July- September, Number 4. October-December).

Ethical statement and malpractice in publication

The editorial team of the Maestro y Sociedad journal is committed to guaranteeing the ethics and quality of the published articles, based on the code of conduct and good practices that the International Committee on Ethics in Scientific Publication (COPE) defines for editors of scientific journals. The journal does not accept plagiarism in any of its forms, therefore, each author responds with what he publishes and they are asked to use anti-plagiarism sites to verify their levels of similarity before submitting their article to the journal. 

Conflict of interests

Public trust in the peer review process and the credibility of published articles depends in part on how conflicts of interest are addressed before and during the editorial process. A conflict of interest exists when an author (or the institution to which they belong), reviewer or editor have personal or financial relationships that may interfere with or influence their judgments in relation to the preparation, evaluation or publication of a manuscript. If there is a conflict of interest in any of the actors: authors, referees or editors, it must be reported in writing immediately to the director of the journal. Conflicts related to the protection of intellectual property referred to herein, will be submitted to the discretion of the competent Cuban authority under the current legislation in the Republic of Cuba.

Action procedure in case of abnormal behavior

The complaints and claims that the different interested parties may raise due to actions that were considered incorrect and contrary to the principles that inspire this Declaration of Ethics and Malpractice, will be presented to the director of Maestro y Sociedad or to the editor of the publication, through the mail maestroysociedad@uo.edu.cu at the time they take place. The interested party must provide as much information as is available to them in order to facilitate the investigation and analysis of the aforementioned action. Once the necessary information has been collected and analyzed, the measures to be taken will be assessed, deciding in each case the appropriate way in which the perpetrators of the bad practice will be warned and the repercussions of this conduct on the future relationship with them.

Collections and Advertising

In the Maestro y Sociedad journal, arbitration, editing and publication of contributions are completely free for the authors. There is no commercial or lucrative use of any kind, nor is advertising accepted or hosted for any product, person or service mentioned.

Content licenses

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativeWorks 4.0 International License. This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that providing the public with free access to research supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The journal responds to the Creative Commons license type CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0. That is, you are free to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; provided you meet the following terms:

-You must give proper credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. You may do so in any reasonable way, but not in any way that suggests that you or your use is endorsed by Licensor.

-You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

-If you remix, transform, or build on the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

Plagiarism policy

The authors are responsible for the opinions they express in their work and must guarantee that the articles are original and that they have not been submitted for consideration by other publications. In the same way, they assume the responsibility that only those people who have made an intellectually important contribution to the development of the work appear in the signing authors.

The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) considers plagiarism to include both the theft and misappropriation of intellectual property and substantial unattributed verbatim copying of another's work. “Intellectual property theft or misappropriation includes the unauthorized use of unique ideas or methods obtained through privileged communication, such as a grant or manuscript review.”

The articles received in Maestro y Sociedad are verified by the editors before and during their publication process by using the free software Paper Rater, PlagScan and Plagiarisma. It can detect plagiarism in more than 190 languages, uses different search engines and supports a large number of document extensions.

The reviewers and members of the Editorial Committee can also detect the occurrence of this bad practice. If plagiarism is suspected during review and processing (5-20%), the author will be notified and the article must be modified. If it is greater than 20%, the author(s) must send it again with the new modifications. We ask readers to inform the Editorial Committee of Maestro y Sociedad in case of detection of plagiarism, sending to our email (maestrosysociedad@uo.edu.cu) the title of the article, name(s) of the author(s), volume , number and year of publication.

Maestro y Sociedad does not encourage any form of plagiarism. Therefore, we recommend reviewing the content of your article before sending it, as well as the detailed care of the use of citations and bibliographical references.

Sponsors

Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

History

The Maestro y Sociedad journal, founded on June 11, 2004, emerged in the former Frank País García Institute of Pedagogical Sciences, Santiago de Cuba, by a group of professors and librarians from that institution. Its founding director was Professor Dr. C. Adia Gell Labañino. It was approved by CITMA on October 23, 2014. In the integration process developed in Cuban universities, in 2016, the Maestro y Sociedad magazine became part of the Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba. Over time it has evolved and adapted to the demands of the databases in which it is located. It has a quarterly periodicity, registered and approved as a national serial publication with RPNS 2079 and ISSN 1815-4867.

About this publishing system

This journal uses Open Journal Systems 3.1.1, which is an open access journal manager and software developed, financed and distributed free of charge by the project Public Knowledge Project subject to the GNU General Public License.