About the publisher – Open Science in Latin America and the Caribbean

Focus and Transcendence

Editorial Mar Caribe (EMC), a private entity sponsored by non-governmental institutions, was launched in November 2021 with the sole purpose of uniting and creating connections between all researchers in Latin America and the Caribbean, regardless of their function, specialty, limits, hierarchy or educational level. EMC has been publishing continuously since 2022, with a scientific and interdisciplinary nature, and provides new sources of information, access to research and the ability to share experiences and knowledge quickly and up-to-date in all areas of knowledge. The publisher has taken care of all the details in its publication, making it a reliable and open database for its readers. The digital documents in our repository are a resource that provides countless advantages and benefits, if used properly, among the infinity of rigorous, reliable, updated and authentic books.

The content is presented to us in full-text, open-access format. The editorial committee admits for review; essays, documents and studies related to Latin American thought, corresponding to research in the thematic axes of philosophy, social sciences, pedagogy, basic and exact sciences, history, among others, giving them an interdisciplinary character. Editorial Mar Caribe disseminates knowledge through:

Literature books
Sourcebooks
Art books
Informative books
Textbooks
Research books
Practical books
Religious books

The books are backed up in open, immediate and permanent access repositories, for the use of these digital resources by readers and the general public; available in Spanish, English or Portuguese, with an emphasis on reducing the digital divide in higher education. Editorial Mar Caribe adheres to open persistent ARK identifiers of direct link to open research, represented by the unique identifier for ISBN books, preceded by the protocol: ark:/10951/isbn.xxx-xxxx-xxxx-x-x; and runs an open infrastructure to link research books, creating a durable and reusable academic record through Crossref, registers a DOI for each new item of content as it is published, with the https://doi.org/10.70288/emc.xxx-xxxx-xxxx-x-x structure

Double-blind external peer review process

During the evaluation of the trials received by Editorial Mar Caribe (EMC), the scientific award is made by means of double-blind external peer review and the participation of a third reviewer in case of differences between experts on the content of the research, maintaining complete anonymity during the process of exploring these. External peer reviewers are requested by the editorial committee of Editorial Mar Caribe to the academic and research vice-rectorates and/or editorial funds of public universities in Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela; based on inter-institutional cooperation agreements.

The deadline for reading and notifying the author and his co-authors of the acceptance or rejection of the essay is 10 working days from the date of receipt. During the evaluation process, EMC relies on the professional capacity and potential of the reviewers, 100% of whom are external reviewers to the editorial committee, guaranteeing rigor, confidentiality, fairness and honesty in the process of developing this management activity. EMC includes tools to detect plagiarism in text and various documents with the scientific support of Mount Scopus Journal, ISSN: 2810-840X, using detection software: SmallSEOTools and DupliChecker.

All trials, research products published by Editorial Mar Caribe, will be subject to rigorous external peer review and a double-blind system based on initial selection by the editorial board, anonymous adjudication by independent reviewers, and subsequent review by trial authors. when applicable. Authors are encouraged to review the Scientific Assessment Rubric of the books before submitting the proposal.

All external peer reviewers must adhere to the following ethical principles:

They will only accept to review trials in which they have sufficient experience, committing to execute the process in the instituted periods.
Reviews should be objective and constructive, with no defamatory or demeaning comments.
They will have to declare their potential conflicts of interest.
They will evaluate each essay based on the rigor, focus, transcendence, bibliographic support, discursive topic and coherence in the written text.
Maintain the confidentiality of the peer review process.
Provide peer-reviewed reports that are constructive, complete, substantiated, and with substantial content.
You will inform Editorial Mar Caribe of any significant similarities between the manuscript under consideration and any published essays of which you are aware.

The editorial committee will assign the essay to at least two (02) public universities, specifically in charge of Academic Vice-Rectorates, Research Deans and Graduate Studies, so that they can review it and make suggestions for improvement, and decide whether to accept or reject the essay. A positive review from both parties will be required for the final publication. If you do not receive positive reviews from two reviewers, you move on to a third review. The final result will be the acceptance of the manuscript, the need for review, reevaluation, possibly acceptance of the work or the refusal to publish it with the publisher.

Regardless of the ratings the essay receives from reviewers, they must be fully endorsed. The information provided by the reviewers will help the editorial board make the final decision on whether or not to publish the book. However, a manuscript still has the status “accepted” if it has passed peer review and the author has made all suggested edits and changes. The accepted work is then sent for layout and spelling. A version of the machote will be sent to the author for review and return with a letter of acceptance and permission to publish. A work is considered “in progress” if the editor-in-chief has the minimum necessary requirements to publish the book.

Editorial Mar Caribe reserves the right to accept submitted works and request any changes it deems necessary to comply with the publication requirements; and standardize the book according to the style of the publisher. The editorial committee has the right to make the final decision on the acceptance or rejection of the documents, based on the opinions of the peer reviewers.

The review process will be blind, so referees will not know who owns the trial and authors will also not know which assigned expert evaluated their trial. Meanwhile, if the evaluation bodies of the science and technology systems in the country of origin of the research, developed by the authors, request detailed information from those in charge of the peer review, the publisher will be responsible for delivering the list of external reviewers who have collaborated during the process. Below is the flowchart of the process:

Please download the Portable Document Format for the Double-blind External Peer Review Process

Posting Frequency

Editorial Mar Caribe’s digital content will be announced collectively as part of the editorial collection, visible in the ISBN catalogs of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru; disseminated in open access through its own or institutional repositories, based on cooperation agreements with the publishing funds of public universities. The publication will be continuous, indexed and catalogued in international databases, in electronic and/or physical book format, with its respective legal deposit and ISBN.

Open Access Policy

Editorial Mar Caribe provides open access to read and download digital content under the premise of making the information available, without book processing charges (BPC), which fuels an ethical global sharing of knowledge. Open access to the publisher’s publications is governed by the license CC BY-NC 4.0-Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. Books hosted in the publisher’s own repository are distributed in scientific databases through ONIX 3.0 metadata and multipurpose persistent identifiers recognized by The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and are embedded in indexing systems with basic quality standards. In addition, EMC is committed to digital preservation and to depositing content in institutional repositories and disseminating it on social networks, to expand the socialization of knowledge within the Latin American scientific community. The books are published under an open access model, free of embargo or membership charges, both to readers and authors, to contribute to reducing the digital divide between the countries of Ibero-America, based on the standards of the UNESCO

Digital preservation policies

All the books published by Editorial Mar Caribe are hosted in the institutional repository of the entity, sponsored by depositaries supported by OSF PREPRINTS and KNOWLEDGE COMMONS. The publication of texts in the open repositories segment, or preprints as they are known in the field of open science, has been a reality, since July 2022, with the open access policy for content. Academics are invited to deposit their published works in the publishing house, in other repositories, since in this way their dissemination and preservation of the work is favored. EMC Joins Open Appointments InitiativeI4OC, collaboration between publishers, academics, researchers and universities, to promote the unrestricted availability of information. All books have a DOI Bibliographic Identifier in collaboration with Center for Open Science (COS) and Humanities Commons. EMC has an electronic plan in place and preservation of access to the publisher’s content in the event that the entity ceases publishing.

Code of Ethics

The submissions must be original, that is, the text, data, equations, tables and graphs presented in it have not been published in another medium of dissemination of knowledge, physical or electronic, the similarity index of the written text must be less than or equal to 5%, on average, not including the bibliographic references. All authors are guarantors of their contribution and responsibility in the submission. The submission will not be under the consideration of another publisher at the same time. EMC accepts essay submissions or book reprints through the Submission Form or the Open Monograph Press (OMP) platform.
The authors are solely responsible for the bibliographic references used, as well as for the ethical aspects related to the research topic. It is recommended to make use of managers such as BibTeX, Endnote and Mendeley.
The works must be unpublished, the corresponding author and their co-authors must sign the Unpublished Essay Guarantee.
In the event that the work has been presented at research conferences or conferences, the authors must submit a participation credential stating the title of the paper and the material of the conference, dates and place of celebration, including the names of the co-authors; if it was presented as a scientific poster, oral or written communication, specify whether the abstract has been published in the proceedings of the conference, page number, publication link, etc.
They are not considered unpublished if the text has been published in its entirety in the official collections of the congress or research conference.
Editorial Mar Caribe conceives that each trial, previously submitted for publication, complies with the review guidelines of the corresponding ethics committee, guaranteeing the anonymity and confidentiality of the study participants.
In public health studies, clinical cases, or human studies, authors must submit a copy of the approval by the Ethics Committee of the institution in which the research was conducted. And also an endorsement of informed consent or dissent.
Editorial Mar Caribe complies with the standards of good editorial practices and ethical responsibility in research in accordance with the DORA protocol. The publishing house, in collaboration with Mount Scopus Journal, faithfully complies with the Peruvian technical standard NTP 722.001:2022 on gender equality management systems in the workplace, approved by the National Institute of Quality (INACAL) for the Republic of Peru; this in relation to the % of inclusion of women in the constitution of reviewers, editorial support board, editorial committee and external peer reviewers.
Faculties, citations and references: Authors must provide the correct indication of the primary or secondary sources, as well as the participation mentioned in the book along with their DOI, ARK or URL, if any.
Conflict of interest and disclosure: All authors are obliged to state that there are no conflicts of interest, which may have influenced the results obtained from the research. Note: It must be indicated at the end of the text sent to the publisher, after the bibliography.
Authors must declare any source of funding that has favoured or provided support to the project that generated the trial and research. Note: It must be indicated at the end of the text sent to the publisher, after the Conflict of Interest Declaration section.
For more information about our code of ethics, download here.

Complaints Policy

Editorial Mar Caribe announces the channel so that each of the participants have a means by which they can make their comments known and the editorial team can give a solution and prompt response. Authors, readers and the general public can apply their complaint through the email: admin@edicionesmarcaribe.com.
Editorial Mar Caribe will evaluate the comments carefully and a response to the request will be issued as soon as possible (10 business days).
Authors, readers, and the general public can rest assured that all requests will be treated confidentially. Correspondence, statements, and other documents related to claims policies will be kept confidential in accordance with the Privacy Statement section. According to the data protection principles established in the Republic of Peru, the details of the requests will be kept for as long as reasonably necessary.

Virtual Classroom of Editorial Mar Caribe

The Moodle virtual classroom of Editorial Mar Caribe is a tool for the dissemination of scientific knowledge, to strengthen reading and writing skills, aimed at authors, readers and the general public. EMC provides training through linguistics and literacy workshops, led by specialists in the area of language and literature, on a bimonthly basis. In the Notices section, the planning of these workshops and the registration form are published at the end of each month. Authors and readers are invited to participate in these open access events, and the virtual classroom is available through this link.