About the Press

Focus and Scope

Libros La Salle Pachuca is an online platform to disseminate digital books. These works are the outcome of research studies conducted by researchers from La Salle Pachuca University and others from Mexico and abroad. 

Plagiarism and originality report

All submissions are assessed on Turnitin in order to detect plagiarism. The book website accepts submissions with a similarity index no more than 25%. If the submission has a similarity index higher than 25%, the authors have the opportunity to reduce it and resubmit the work to the book website.

 

 

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

The publication of books in Libros La Salle Pachuca is a process of permanent knowledge improvement.  The book website encourages open publishing digital works. Additionally, it considers its duty to promote the transmission of scientific knowledge, ensuring its rigor and quality, under the ethical commitment of the scientific and academic communities. The protocols and guidelines described make reference to the Code of Conduct for editors of scientific books that established the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Duties and responsibilities
Libros La Salle Pachuca is committed to:
• assuring the quality of the scientific material published
• guaranteeing freedom of expression
• maintaining the academic integrity of the content, ensuring that the published material follows internationally accepted ethical norms
• publishing corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed

Obligations of authors
Authors must guarantee the authorship of the documents presented. Authorship corresponds to those who have made a significant contribution to the work. If the work has significant contributions from more than one author, these contributors should appear as co-authors.
Authors must provide contact information in order to facilitate communication with other researchers in relation to their published work. This contact information will appear with the published work.

Originality and plagiarism
Authors must ensure that they have obtained permission to publish any materials presented in their work, as well as having exercised the right to quote other author´s work.
Those manuscripts in which plagiarism is detected will be rejected. Likewise, an author should not submit originals to describe essentially the same work as previously published.

Complaints
Libros La Salle Pachuca should respond promptly to complaints.
In any case, if the individuals involved are unable to satisfy their claims, they have the right to raise their protests to higher authorities.

Protecting individual data
Libros La Salle Pachuca guarantees the confidentiality of individual information. It is the authors’ responsibility to obtain authorizations to publish images and trademarks used in their work, and any other personal data (e.g. age, sex, social status of study participants).

Monitoring malpractice
Libros La Salle Pachuca  accepts the obligation to act accordingly in cases of suspected malpractice or misconduct. Any manuscripts that raise questions about possible misconduct will be rejected.
Libros La Salle Pachuca will make every reasonable effort to ensure that the manuscripts submitted for evaluation are rigorous and ethically appropriate.

Integrity and academic rigor
Any time a published article is suspected of containing major misstatements or misleading or distorted information, it must be corrected immediately.
Any manuscript whose content is found to be fraudulent will be removed immediately from the indexing systems and it will not be available for reading.

Complaints
Any author, reader or reviewer may send complaints by email to Libros La Salle Pachuca:  jnenciso@lasallep.edu.mx

 

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Archiving and digital preservation policy

Libros La Salle Pachuca allows self-archiving of accepted and published manuscripts. Authors retain copyright ownership and may archive pre-published or post-published versions or publisher's pdf versions in personal or institutional repositories or libraries at any time without the express permission of the journal or publisher.

Authors of articles published in Libros La Salle Pachuca have the right to deposit accepted or published versions of works in institutional repositories. Authors may make them publicly and immediately available upon citation as the site where they were originally published.