Open Access Policy

Language Value is a free open access journal, both for readers and authors, which only retains the publication rights of the articles published, favoring the reuse and self-archiving of their articles in databases, repositories, international directories and information systems. In this sense, the journal has an Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

1. Copyright

Works that are published in this journal are subject to the following terms:

  1. Language Value retains the proprietary rights (copyright) of published works, and favors and allows the reuse of the same under the license of use indicated above.
  2. The works are published in the online edition of the journal under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International: The articles may be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted and presented publicly, provided that:
    • Cite the authorship and the original source of the publication (journal, publisher and URL of the work).
    • Are not used for commercial purposes.
    • Mention the existence and specifications of this license for use.
  3. Every item has its DOI: example Vol 10.1 - Multimodal literacy in academic environments: PowerPoint as a motivational genre. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/LanguageV.2018.10.2

2. Open Access Policy

  1. Language Value is an open access journal.
  2. Conditions of pre-print self-archiving: Prior to final publication, it is advisable for authors to file their preprint version on their personal and institutional websites, scientific social networks, repositories, bibliographic managers. The preprint should include the following statement: "This is the electronic version of an article accepted for publication in Language Value [number/year], now available online on the official website through its DOI". Once published, the authors should specify: "This is the electronic version of an article published in Language Value [number/year]. The final version is available at the official website, on the date indicated in the preprint, through its DOI".
  3. Conditions of post-print self-archiving: Authors are allowed to reuse published works, i.e. the post-print (final PDF version of the publisher) can be archived for non-commercial purposes, and authors are strongly recommended to deposit it in:
    • Social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn…).
    • Institutional university repositories and public repositories (Mendeley, Cosis, etc.).
    • Scientific social networks (ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Kudos, etc.).
    • Personal or institutional website, blog, etc.
    • Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchID, ScopusID, Dimensions, PlumX, etc.

3. Archive

This journal uses different national and international repositories that host publications: Ebsco, Linguist List, Dialnet, or ISOC and Warrants indexing.

4. This journal does not charge authors any article processing or submission fees.