CODE OF ETHICS AND GOOD PRACTICES

Diferents. Revista de museus is a publication of the Museum of Contemporary Art Vicente Aguilera Cerni of Vilafamés (MACVAC) that aims to articulate a space for meeting, debate and reflection on different aspects related to museology, trying to occupy a place, in that field, until now non-existent: that of making visible and disseminating museums that, due to their characteristics, collection, management, idiosyncrasy, could be considered unique within the diversity of museum institutions. A space devoid of borders but focusing attention on those museums involved with the territory in which they are located, giving voice and articulating peripheral centers, those forgotten or separated from the media channels. Disseminate the contributions of the world of research while, thereby, democratizing knowledge and sharing experiences, concerns and achievements.

Publication frequency: annual (2016-).

Charging of fees for the review and publication process: no.

Diferents. Revista de museus, and its team, promote an honest, transparent and truthful investigation, rejecting any practice of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, falsification or fraudulent use of data. Throughout the editorial process the articles will be reviewed prior to their acceptance through the Oxsico program, managed through the Library Service of the Universitat Jaume I.

Incorporated since 2019 to the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform to be an immediate open access journal after the publication of each issue. It is part of the portal of the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (UJI) "e-Revistes".

Diferents. Revista de museus adheres to the Code of Good Practices in Research and Doctorate (CBPID) of the Universitat Jaume I in order to establish principles of integrity and transparency with the commitment of all the participants involved in the editing process of the publication, with the copromise of complying and maintaining the rules of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. In addition, the Ethics Committee for Publications, the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Association of Open Access Academic Editors and the National Declaration on Scientific Integrity are closely followed. Therefore, we break down a series of good practices below according to whether they are applicable to editors, evaluators and authors:

EDITORIAL

The commitments of:

• Maintenance of good practices in compliance with standards.
• Adoption of a neutral position in relation to the topics covered by the journal, as well as non-discrimination against authors based on sex, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs, and ethnic or geographical origins.
• Ensure that all the people participating in the editing process know and comply with good practices and scientific ethical principles.

Editorial Board: They should be experts in the field of study of publication. Both on the website and in the published magazine, the full name and affiliation of each of its members must be indicated.

Contact: A contact address must be provided to whom to contact.

Rules for authors: The complete and updated rules for authors must be made public in a prominent place, and include a link or mention to this code of good practices. Articles must be original and unpublished. The characteristics to which the articles must comply, use of graphic material and format of the bibliographies will be detailed.

Treatment of received articles: Commitment to keep confidentiality about the received articles. Acknowledgment of receipt must be sent to the authors. They must be impartial and objective in their treatment. They should refrain from working with an article if they could have a conflict of interest or from assigning it to reviewers who know they may have it.

Review process: The specific review system used should be indicated. A contribution must be reviewed by two evaluators and the presence of a third evaluator must be ensured in the event of a tie. The evaluation will be anonymous; double blind peer review.

Guidelines for evaluators: A document with specific evaluation instructions and a review form should be provided.

EVALUATORS

They will adopt the following commitments:

• Carry out an evaluation as long as you are an expert in the field covered by the article.
• Meet the established review deadlines.

Confidentiality: They should not reveal data belonging to or related to the articles submitted for review. They may not use the information for personal purposes or to favor other people. If they require advice with the participation of another person, they must receive authorization from the editorial team. They will not contact the authors unless the team is up to date and authorizes it.

Reports: Duty of objectivity and impartiality. The criticisms will be specific and constructive, and the suggestions clear and concise. They will guarantee that the articles under evaluation are original and unpublished, adhere to the norms and do not incur bad practices. Indications or evidence of lack of ethics will be communicated to the publisher.

Transparency and conflict of interest: They must refrain from evaluating a

article if it is believed that it may incur a conflict of interest, for example, when an article can be related to the reviewer's own research.

AUTHORS

Adoption of the following commitments:

Ethical principles: They will follow the ethical principles included in the main international declarations and codes. They will respect human rights, animal rights and the environment, and data protection laws at all times, and will not incur any type of discrimination. The falsification or manipulation of data, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, redundant publication or unnecessary fragmentation of articles are unethical.

Authorship: Responsibility for the authorship of the article presented. In the case of several authors, the person in charge will make sure that all of them have participated in the article, avoiding problems such as fictitious authorship, and that all have approved the final version of the article.

Submission of articles: Commitment to send original and unpublished articles, as well as not to send articles that are in the process of evaluation in another publication.

Transparency and conflict of interest: Duty to mention possible sources of funding for the research or if it is part of a project. Duty to pay special attention to citations in the text and bibliographies. If the article includes images, it must be indicated where they were obtained from, and if they are reproduced, the authors will request the necessary permissions and the source will be cited.

Errors: If an author discovers a significant error in their article, they must notify the journal for its correction as soon as possible.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright is a law that gives the owner of a work the right to say how other people can use it. Copyright licenses spell out the rights to publish, distribute, and use research. The magazine Diferents. Revista de museus requests that the authors consent that their article be open access and online by accepting the Terms and Conditions that entails the transfer of their work to the OJS platform, in order to comply with the publication requirements and thereby ensure the widest possible dissemination of your work. Thus, the authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

- The authors non-exclusively assign the exploitation rights (reproduction, distribution, public communication, transformation) to the Vicente Aguilera Cerni Museum of Contemporary Art and the Jaume I University, so they can establish, separately, agreements additional for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal (for example, hosting it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

- This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA 4.0). The informative version can be consulted here and the legal text of the license here.

- Authors are allowed and encouraged to electronically disseminate their works, since it favors their earlier circulation and dissemination and thus a possible increase in their citation and reach among the academic community.