Open access

The Con-Sciencias Sociales journal is the academic and scientific journal of the Department of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidad Católica Boliviana. Con-Sciencias Sociales is an open access journal and allows the download of all its published articles with a source mention.

The growing importance of the open access movement has prompted funding institutions and entities to adopt open access policies that recommend or oblige authors to deposit their publications in open access repositories. The adoption of mandates by institutions is one of the most effective measures to promote open access among the academic community and reduce the reluctance that many authors express regarding open access.

As part of its open access policy, Con-Sciencias Sociales publishes the contributions sent by their authors, without financial retribution, with the express authorization of these authors.

Also, Con-Sciencias Sociales promotes among the students of the Bolivian Catholic University the dissemination in open access of all its content, guaranteeing compliance with standards that guarantee the preservation, access, interoperability and visibility of the contents hosted by Con-Sciencias Sociales.

On the other hand, Con-Sciencias Sociales watches over the copyright and intellectual property rights of the content deposited on its site, under the provisions of Law 1322 and its Copyright Regulations of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.

STATEMENTS

The open access movement has been evolving and taking shape through the international declarations to which Con-Sciencias Sociales subscribes:

• The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) (2002)
• The Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003)
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003).