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Editorial Policy
General information on the editorial policy of the Journal Historia de la Lengua Española
The present information is an extract of that contained in the Statutes of the Revista de Historia de la Lengua Española (RHLE), which were approved by the General Assembly of members, held at the University of León on 19 May 2022, and which are integrated into the Statutes of the Asociación de Historia de la Lengua Española (AHLE).
The Revista de Historia de la Lengua Española is a scientific publication of the AHLE. It belongs to and is published by this Association, a non-profit scientific entity, which was constituted with this name in its founding act in Cáceres, on 4 April 1987, and is governed by its own Statutes and by the Organic Law 1/2002, of 22 March, regulating the Right of Association. It has its own server and website and is a registered trademark. The RHLE is financed exclusively by the Association.
RHLE is a journal that publishes original and unpublished research papers and reviews dealing with aspects related to the history of the Spanish language, historical grammar, linguistic historiography or other related areas considered from a historical perspective. Its aim is to disseminate scientific production in historical linguistics and the history of the Spanish language and to publicize advances in this field, as well as book reviews and information of interest to members, although it is open to researchers from all over the world, whether or not they are members. It publishes works that represent a significant advance in its field of study, as well as book reviews and information of interest to members.
Since 2020, the Revista de Historia de la Lengua Española has been entirely digital. The digital version is an uninterrupted continuation of the printed version that was published since 2006 to 2019 and whose contents have also been converted to digital format and are available on the journal's website.
All content (including former contributions that appeared in print) of the Journal is offered in open, immediate, and unrestricted access to the full text (no registration, subscription, or payment requirements and no embargo period). The RHLE's concept of open access is guided by the DOAJ definition, so that any individual user can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of scientific articles and use them for any other legitimate purpose without any economic, legal or technical barriers other than those posed by the Internet itself. Until 2022, the journal was licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Since 2023 the licence has changed to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). On the other hand, publishing in the journal is free of charge for authors. Authors will retain their copyright.
The copyright holder of scholarly works published in this journal grants rights of use to others under an open licence (Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) that allows free and immediate access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.
Each paper published in the journal is assigned a DOI identifier. Citations to papers published in the journal must acknowledge the published source and must link to the publisher's version with DOI.
RHLE submits all papers received for publication to a double-blind peer review system. Sections of the journal that do not undergo peer review are expressly indicated. The Editorial Board, in accordance with the confidential reports of external reviewers, decides on the publication of the articles received. The language of the RHLE is Spanish. Articles in other languages are accepted with the approval of the Editorial Board.
The RHLE has adopted a Code of Ethics and Good Practice that authors wishing to publish in the RHLE must comply with. It is based on the Guide to Good Practice for Publication, drawn up by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and on the principles expressed in international standards and codes of ethics, as reflected in COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). Papers submitted for evaluation and publication in the journal must include any sources of funding, as well as the bibliography cited, and the data obtained and used with faithful and accurate reference to the sources when necessary. Authors will take special care to ensure that their contributions follow the editorial guidelines and conform to the submission guidelines. As part of the submission process, authors should confirm that their submission meets all the elements that will be requested in a listing. Submissions that do not meet these guidelines will not be accepted and will be returned to authors.
The RHLE develops various processes to ensure the permanent accessibility of the digital objects it hosts on its own servers: backups, monitoring of the technological environment to anticipate possible migrations of obsolete formats or software, digital preservation metadata and use of DOI.
The archives published on its website are available in easily reproducible formats (PDF, HTML and XML-JATS). This journal is part of the Public Knowledge Project's Private LOCKSS Network (PKP-PLN), which generates a decentralized archiving system, distributed among collaborating libraries, to create permanent archives of the journal for the preservation of the original content and its restoration if necessary.
