The ÁGORA Journal is now included in the LATINDEX 2.0 catalog

Quality characteristics of Catalog 2.0 (Methodology)
Target
The objective of this new list of characteristics is to reinforce the pedagogical and didactic role that Latindex has been playing with editors since the appearance of the Catalog in 2002. Updating the methodology was necessary to adapt it to the new scientific communication processes that are being developed. They are giving out to the world through magazines available online.

Catalog 2.0 applies only to online magazines. It replaces Catalog 1.0, applied to printed and online magazines, whose results were effective from 2002 to 2017. With this new methodology -and with the rearrangement of characteristics, especially those that have been integrated into the group of "mandatory" - It is intended that the editors are informed about the rules that will prevail in the conformation of the Catalog 2.0 in each of the national centers.

In the design of this new proposal, the additional challenge that Latindex represents to apply the same rating model to journals with different objectives (research, techniques and dissemination), from different disciplines and in countries that also have different degrees of development, has been considered. economic, scientific and social.

Each of the characteristics that make up the Latindex 2.0 Catalog is verified solely and exclusively with the information that can be viewed and consulted on the institutional or official website of each magazine; In this way, the creation and maintenance of websites is also encouraged under the responsibility of the publishing institution.

Institutional website is considered to be the one under the direct responsibility of the journal's publishing entity. An official website is considered to be one that, commissioned by the publishing institution, is managed by other organizations or companies for the management, editing and full access to the magazine's contents. It is understood that on official websites the contents continue to be the responsibility of the publishing entity. Official websites will be considered for rating only when the journal does not have, at the time of rating, an institutional website or it is not updated. Both institutional and official websites may be dedicated to a single magazine or be part of a portal made up of several magazines.

With this policy, the aim is to promote the professionalization of institutional editorial teams, so that magazines do not depend on external initiatives for access to their content and its dissemination. Likewise, the construction of digital magazines capable of generating services and serving their users based on their own policies is promoted. This situation gives freedom to the responsible institutions to integrate value-added services of their own interest, facilities for interoperability, improve their web positioning, by publishing from their own web domain, as well as training local human resources for said tasks.

This proposal is intended to give the Catalog a new category as a reliable reference for high-quality academic journals, at the same time that it functions as a compendium of good editorial practices for journals available online.

Workplan
As of October 2018, the new methodology began to be applied. Each national center has started the online journal qualification process, always based on the present methodology. National collection centers can rate journals from lists prepared in advance or, at the request of editors interested in having their journal rated.

The launch of Catalog 2.0 means “starting from scratch”, so the number of journals displayed on the website will increase as the work progresses in each participating country. However, the results obtained with Catalog 1.0 (2002-2017) will continue to be consulted in the registry of each journal, only as a historical reference.

Application requirements
1. To be rated, journals must be two years old in their online version and current at the time of rating.
2. The journals must have a dedicated institutional or official website, where the compliance of each of the characteristics will be verified.
3. The journal's website must allow free access to all content. This means that the new list of criteria cannot be applied to journals with restricted access, unless an access is opened for the Latindex rating.
4. Digitized magazines will not be graded in a single PDF file in which all published documents or articles are integrated (commonly called “layer to layer”). Each published article must be consulted independently.
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