Following the philosophy of open access, the UC Journals Portal aims to generate greater visibility for our research journals, promote the citation of their articles by the national and international scientific community, and provide a space for training and collaboration for the different actors in the world. editorial (publishers, authors and researchers, among others).
This portal contains and disseminates publicaciones editadas por 35 revistas de investigación de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (dos de ellas ya han dejado de publicar nuevos números) y que son gestionadas y publicadas a través del software abierto Open Journal System (O.J.S.).
Its implementation It was possible thanks to the award of the Fund for the Publication of Scientific Journals 2019 (NEST) with the project called “Improving the editorial management of UC Journals and their visibility in the digital environment through a platform for access, articulation, collaboration, dissemination services and scientific marketing”. This project is led by a team from the UC Library System.
We are a UC Libraries team made up of professionals from the areas of Support for research and publication, Technology and digital development, and Communications and user experience.
Through an integrated and collaborative work, we are in charge of planning, developing, updating and supporting the portal, in order to implement and maintain a platform that makes visible the research generated at the UC and contributes to the dissemination of science. open.
Here you can find some answers to your concerns. For more specific inquiries, write to us through our Contact Form
It is a site where the publications of the research journals of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile that meet the editorial quality and content quality criteria established by the institution are made visible in open access.
Research publications edited by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile that meet criteria of high editorial and content quality, following national and international index guidelines.
The publisher should address the request to the Contact Form of this Journals Portal, where the requirement will be evaluated.
To find out about the publications that make up this portal and find out more information about them, we recommend you visit the section Our Journals from the main menu.
No, the Journal Portal is a platform that promotes open access to content published by institutional journals.
Yes, our Journal Portal responds to the open access initiative by promoting free access to scientific literature and promoting its free availability on the Internet. Always following the philosophy of open access, this platform gives greater visibility to our research journals, promotes the citation of their articles by the national and international scientific community, and provides a space for training and collaboration for the different players in the publishing world. .
No. Our portal only considers, for the moment, the publications of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
You must use the search box located in the upper right part of the platform and incorporate the name of the publication. It should be noted that when the results are retrieved, both the title of the journal and articles related to the search will be displayed.
It is implemented on the WordPress platform, version 5.8.2.
The information is collected through the OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol. In WordPress, the Tainakan plugin is used, which allows harvesting from the OJS (Open Journal System) platform.