Open access and copyright policy

1. Open access policy

Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación provides immediate open access to all its content on the principle of making research freely available to the public to support a greater global exchange of knowledge.

In this way, the reader can access all the contents of the journal from the moment of publication without cost or obligation to subscribe.

Unless otherwise indicated, the articles published in Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación are licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license agreement. The authors retain the copyright and third parties are permitted to copy, distribute and make use of the works provided that they comply with the terms and conditions set out in the licence:

- Cite authorship and the original source of publication (journal, publisher and URL of the work).
- Do not use them for commercial purposes.
- If you remix, transform or create from the material, you must disseminate your contributions under the same licence as the original.

More information on this can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en.

2. Copyright

Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work registered under the corresponding Creative Commons attribution licence, which allows third parties to use the published work as long as they mention the authorship of the work and the first publication in this journal.

Authors may make other independent and additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (e.g., inclusion in an institutional repository or publication in a book) as long as they clearly indicate that the work was first published in this journal.

3. Creative Commons Licence

Therefore, authors who publish in Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación agree to the following terms: 

- Authors retain copyright and all publication rights.
- The author authorises the journal the right to reproduce, disseminate and distribute the work under the Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike 0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) in different electronic formats.
- The author authorises the journal the rights of diffusion and dissemination of the contents in directories, catalogues, databases, as any other portal or OA platform for online consultation of its contents and extracts, and under the conditions of the portal, repositories or database where it is integrated.
- Authors may separately establish different licensing agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the Journal (e.g., placing it in an institutional repository).

Authors agree with the CC licence used by the journal, with the self-archiving conditions and with the access policy.

4. Self-archiving

Authors are encouraged to publish their work and associated data in their institutional repository, as well as in thematic repositories. In addition, the maximum dissemination of these works through the Internet and social networks of any of the versions (pre-print, post-print and publisher's version) is recommended.

Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación focuses on disseminating its content and making it accessible through indexing services. All papers published by the journal are archived in the Research Repository of the University of Seville - idUS, which guarantees the long-term preservation of published documents, as well as the dissemination and collection of papers through OAI-PMH.

5. Previous licences

- From issue 51 (14/01/2021): © 2021 The Authors; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
- Issues 21 to 50: © Universidad de Sevilla. Editorial University of Seville
- Issues 13 to 21: © The Authors © Department of Journalism II, University of Seville, Spain.
- Issues 1 to 12: © The Authors © Grupo de Investigación en Estructura, Historia y Contenidos de la Comunicación (GREHCCO).

6. Preservation policy

As a journal under the supervision of the Editorial University of Seville, hosted in the domains https://editorial.us.es/es/revistas and https://revistascientificas.us.es, it has a secure and permanent archive thanks to the automatic back-up of its contents every 24 hours by the university's IT service.

All articles published in EUS journals are deposited in the institutional repository, IdUS, whose preservation policy is guaranteed:
Content will be checked regularly to preserve its integrity, security and durability.
Content will be transformed into new formats when deemed necessary (based on the same criteria of security and durability).
Software emulations will be provided, where possible, for access to formats that cannot be migrated.
Regular backups of the complete idUS content, including data and metadata, are made.

7. PKP preservation network

Our journals are supported by PKP and its PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) development, which allows journals to be digitally preserved in OJS. The LOCKSS programme offers decentralised and distributed preservation, perpetual access without interruption and preservation of the original authentic version of the content. PKP PN ensures that journals that are not part of any other digital preservation service (such as CLOCKSS or Portico) can be preserved for long-term access. For additional details on PKP PN, see the high-level overview.