About the Journal

Scope

The CEDAMAZ journal is edited by the Universidad Nacional de Loja, Ecuador. It is a multidisciplinary journal, with a peer-review process and open access license, aimed at professors, students, professionals, and researchers. The publication in the CEDAMAZ Journal is free of charge and there are no article processing charges (APC).

CEDAMAZ´s aim is to promote scientific communication and collaboration between people and organizations involved in research and development at the local, regional and international levels.

It publishes original works on academic and scientific research topics by internal and external researchers from the National University of Loja. The journal encourages the transfer of scientific knowledge free of charge for both authors and readers, through the dissemination of results of original scientific works, in a wide range of disciplines that include the following research areas:

Forest sciences, biodiversity, and the environment.
Agricultural Sciences.
Health sciences and biotechnology.
Exact Sciences and Engineering.

Publication frequency

Since volume 9, 2019, CEDAMAZ journal periodicity is biannual. Each years the first number covers from articles accepted from January to June; the second, from articles accepted July to December

Open access policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps a greater global exchange of knowledge. CEDAMAZ allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute or print the scholarly work published here without financial, legal or technical barriers, with the aim of using the information for any responsible purpose with the appropriate acknowledgment of authorship of each published article.

Indexes and Databases

Latindex Catálo go 2.0

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico

Google Scholar

Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Universidad Nacional de Loja

Sponsors

CEDAMAZ presents updated and pertinent information at the regional and international level, highlighting topics in forestry experiences, biodiversity, environment sciences, veterinary, agriculture sciences, human health, biotechnology, exact sciences, and engineering.

Interoperability Protocol

Currently, the journal uses the interoperability protocol OAI-PMH 2.0

This protocol can be verified in the following link:

https://revistas.unl.edu.ec/index.php/cedamaz/oai

Digital Preservation Policies

The Universidad Nacional de Loja, is a public higher education institution, through its Editorial committee, sponsors and promotes the journal CEDAMAZ, providing the hosting in its digital environment. CEDAMAZ ensures the intellectual content of electronic archival documents for long periods of time, maintaining their attributes such as integrity, authenticity, inalterability, originality, reliability, and accessibility; this allows safeguarding digital resources for future generations.

Preservation principles

The aim of this Policy is to ensure that the digital resources hosted in CEDAMAZ journal remain authentic and accessible in the future for anyone who needs them. To do so, the threats of rapid technological obsolescence and the inherent fragility of digital media must be countered, providing mechanisms to identify and predict the impacts of those threats on its resources, and plan and execute appropriate preservation strategies to mitigate these impacts. Digital documents are backed up with full copies of the original documents (together with their metadata) that are deposited in the institutional DSpace repository, hosted on different storage platforms, avoiding as far as possible storage on physical media such as hard drives or compact discs that may deteriorate over time resulting in loss of information.

Authenticity.

CEDAMAZ'S digital preservation policy guarantees the authenticity of stored documents based on the following aspects:

Reliability: the backups are complete and accurate copies of articles published in the journal. In this Policy, reliability is guaranteed through the operation of transparent and fully documented preservation strategies and the provision of the necessary metadata to describe the content, context, and provenance of the record.

Integrity: the backups of the articles and metadata will be under the strict responsibility of the director or editor of the journal, who will be solely responsible for access, who must guarantee that the documents are complete and protected against unauthorized or accidental alterations.

Metadata

Metadata (literally "data about data") is required to support a wide range of activities, including records management, preservation management, cataloging, and resource discovery (ISO 15836, 2009).

The metadata is generated by the author at the time of the submission for peer-review on the journal platform managed with the Open Journal System, this metadata makes it possible to search on the net or in the journal of the main characteristics of the manuscript, such as data. of the author, article data such as subject, date, keywords.