NOVUM

 

The journal NOVUM is a publication of scientific dissemination in applied social sciences, which aims to build knowledge from transdisciplinarity and rigorous, committed and participatory social research by publishing only unpublished and original articles. The target audiences are: networks of researchers, graduate students and undergraduate students who belong to the area of social sciences; in addition, as a scientific journal it ensures the rigorous application of valid and relevant research methodologies to the academic context. 

From 2011 to 2017, the periodicity of the journal was annual, but with a view to increase its dissemination, since 2018, its periodicity was changed to semiannual, publishing two issues per year.

Seeking to increase its visibility, the articles published in the journal are managed and evaluated under the indexing criteria indicated by different international indexers and by Publindex of Minciencias. Under the Distribution License: Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 4.0 License.

Peer review process

After receiving and verifying that each article complies with the style guidelines defined by the journal, 2 external evaluators recognized by Minciencias https://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/ciencia-war/busquedaPares.do are assigned, these can issue 3 different criteria (approved - approved with corrections or not approved); if there is a tie in the evaluations, the criteria of a third academic is used.

The evaluation process is double-blind, with the intention of avoiding conflict of interest, once the peer review is finished, the result is sent to the author to manage the corrections before the process of editing, layout, publication and dissemination of the journal.

Open access policy

The content of published articles is the sole responsibility of their authors and does not compromise the thinking of any member of the journal, Editorial Board or Scientific Committee.

The Journal has no publication and/or submission costs. No economic value will be charged to the author who submits his/her articles to this publication. 

The Journal has no sale price to the public and will be distributed free of charge through the Journal Portal of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

The authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work registered with the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) that allows others to distribute, remix, retouch, and create from the work in a non-commercial way, as long as they give credit and license their new creations under the same conditions.

In addition, authors may retain the copyright on their works, as long as they respect the publication in NOVUM and mention it whenever appropriate.

NOVUM Journal Style Guidelines

NOVUM, Journal of Applied Social Sciences, publishes only unpublished and original articles. Under the following parameters:

1. For articles that are the result of research the maximum length will be 25 pages, including the space allotted for tables, charts, diagrams, illustrations, photographs and bibliography.

2. For articles that are not the result of research, such as bibliographic reviews, case presentations or essays, the maximum length will be 20 pages.

3. Pages will be evaluated according to the following style characteristics:

Papers will be received for evaluation in Word format.
Font type and size: Times New Roman 11, for the body of the text.
Line spacing: 1.15
Paper size: letter (21.59 x 27.94 cm).
Top margin: 3 cm.
Inner margin: 3 cm.
Lower and outer margins: 3 cm.

4. Titles and first page: Up to three levels of titles will be admitted, not counting the title of the article. The sizes and characteristics of these levels will be as follows: 

Title of the article (Sentence type, Arial 14, sentence type).
Title level 1 (Times New Roman 11, sentence type). Space before the paragraph.
Level 2 of title (Times New Roman 11, sentence type). No space before the paragraph.
Level 3 heading (Times New Roman 11, sentence type). Followed by the paragraph.
None of the titles implies a page break.

5. On the right margin, the name or names of the authors should be written. This should be written in Times New Roman 11; at the bottom of the page:

Institutional affiliation of each author, titles obtained, e-mail and ORCID code should be included.
The credits that it is strictly necessary to acknowledge.

6. Diagrams, illustrations and tables: It is recommended, since they facilitate reading:

All schemes, illustrations (drawings, pictorial works, photographs) and bar charts should be sent in .jpg format of good quality inside the text.
Tables should be without color. The font should be smaller than the text of the rest of the article (Times New Roman 10). 
All diagrams, illustrations, graphs or tables must be labeled following a logical sequence. They should in turn, contain a title that will be located at the bottom of the figure, followed by a font at the bottom of it. Thus:

Photograph 1. Our magazine (name of illustration).

Source: Idárraga, D.M. (2015), or Source: Own elaboration.

7. Footnotes and textual quotations:

Textual quotations of more than 40 words should be placed in a separate paragraph with tabulation to the right, single spacing and one point less font size, without quotation marks and with the corresponding bibliographic reference indicating the page number, paragraph or line from which it was extracted.
Textual quotations of less than two lines should be written between double quotation marks within the body of the text, with the corresponding bibliographic reference (page number, paragraph or line from which it was extracted).
If the voice of a person obtained in an interview is quoted, it should be in italics, without quotation marks and in a separate paragraph indicating in parentheses (last name, year, personal communication). 
Footnotes should be explanatory or complementary to the information in the text they accompany; they cannot include bibliographical references. Ideally, they should not occupy more than 10 lines on a page and it is recommended not to overuse them as they may hinder the agile reading of the text.

8. References to the cited text: References should be made within the body of the article, giving the author's last name, year of publication and page number. Parentheses are used to provide this information, just after closing the quotation marks [example: "...all of them came from the town of Las Mercedes at the time of the Violence" (Martínez, 1974, p. 78)]. 

References to a text can be made without a textual quotation when it is an interpretation or when it is desired to give credit to the origin of certain ideas or information that the author has not developed or discovered on his own. In these cases, the author's surname may be inside or outside the parenthesis. Thus: ...as Benítez (2021) says [...].

9. References: The list of texts consulted should be made in alphabetical order of surname. Following the norms of the American Psychological Association, APA - seventh edition. Texts or authors that have not been mentioned in the body of the text cannot be included in this section.

10. Articles submitted to NOVUM will be submitted to a first filter using TURNITIN software, in order to detect any case of plagiarism or self-plagiarism in their writing, a situation that automatically rejects the article for evaluation by academic peers. 

11. The articles will be submitted to a double-blind evaluation. With this, we seek to avoid conflict of interest between the evaluators and the authors.

12. In case of any disparity in the evaluation, the article will be sent to a third evaluator who will issue a final decision.

Code of Best Practices

1. The Editorial Committee of NOVUM, Revista de Ciencias Sociales Aplicadas, will commit itself to avoid bad practices in the publication of research results and will manage the publication of the papers received in a prudent time that will not exceed 22 weeks.

2. The Editorial Committee shall undertake to act according to the following principles:

2.1 Impartiality: Articles submitted to NOVUM, as well as their authors, will be treated equally. All will be given the same support in the process of reception, evaluation, correction and publication of their articles.

2.2 Respect: The intellectual independence of the authors must be respected and each author is granted the right to submit his/her article to other publications in case of having been negatively evaluated by the two external academic peers. It is important to note that articles with negative research results will not be excluded.

2.3 Confidentiality: The Editorial Committee and all the people who work for NOVUM are obliged to maintain total confidentiality about the articles received, about the peer reviewers and about the personal information of all the people who are directly or indirectly related to the Journal until the articles have been accepted and published. Only then can their title and author be disseminated.

2.4 Transparency: No member of the Editorial Committee may use data, arguments or interpretations contained in unpublished papers for his or her own research, except with the express written consent of the author or authors.

3. The Editorial Committee will guarantee that each of the articles has been evaluated by at least two Academic Peers recognized by Colciencias and external to the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. In addition, when one of the two evaluations is NOT approved, the article will be submitted to a third evaluation.

3.1 The Editorial Committee will guarantee that the evaluation process has been fair, impartial and double blind[1].

3.2 The Editorial Board will always value and appreciate the contribution of External Peer Reviewers and promote their recognition, through certification, as part of the scientific process. The Editorial Committee may also dispense with External Peer Reviewers who make evaluations of low quality, incorrect, disrespectful or delivered outside the established deadlines.

3.3 The Editorial Committee will be in charge of accepting or rejecting articles for publication based on the evaluations received from the peer reviewers.

3.4 The Editorial Committee will have the authority to directly reject the articles received, without resorting to an external consultation process, if they consider them inappropriate for the journal due to lack of quality, lack of adaptation to the Style Guidelines and/or for presenting a high degree of similarity in TURNITIN.

3.5 The correct application of the rules established by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and those established for the Journal are the responsibility of all members of the same.

4. ALL members of the Journal should be able to promote and represent it in different academic scenarios, as well as suggest and support possible improvements and effectively achieve the collaboration of External Academic Peers.

5. The Editorial Committee will be in charge of reviewing, in the first instance, the articles that are received before being submitted for evaluation by External Academic Peers.

5.1 One of the members of the Committee will be in charge of writing the editorial, revisions or comments necessary for each edition to be published, in order to bring it to a successful conclusion.

5.2 ALL members of the Editorial Committee must attend the Committee meetings scheduled during the semester. They must also respond in a timely manner to the Ad Referendum Committees sent by e-mail.

5.3 The Editorial Committee will be in charge of verifying that for each article the necessary legal documents are received in order to publish each issue of the Journal; these are: Author's rights form, Author's information form, License/authorization of the REPOSITORY and Research project form.

6. A conflict of interest arises when a work received in the journal is signed by a person who is part of the Editorial Committee of the journal or when the author has a direct personal or professional relationship with the journal. The author who presents this condition should refrain from intervening in the evaluation process of the proposed article. It is their obligation to stay out of the process.

7. Articles submitted for publication must be the result of original and unpublished research. They must include the data obtained and used, as well as an objective discussion of the results.

7.1 The author or authors shall undertake to make appropriate mention of the origin of the ideas or literal phrases taken from other works already published following the Guidelines of the Journal. The same applies to all the material included in the article: figures, photos, maps, illustrations, among others.

7.2 Authors shall ensure that the data and results presented in the paper are original and have not been copied, invented, distorted or manipulated. Plagiarism in all its forms, multiple or redundant publication, as well as the invention or manipulation of data constitute serious misconduct and will be considered fraud.

8. The author(s) shall undertake not to submit the same article in parallel to another journal or publication medium until he/she receives notification of its rejection or voluntarily withdraws it.

8.1 It will be admissible to publish a work that expands on another that has already appeared as long as the previous one is properly cited. This shall apply in the case of translations.

8.2 The persons signing the article shall share the same level of responsibility for it. However, those who act as the main contact should ensure that the co-authors review and approve the final version of the paper and give their approval for possible publication.

8.3 The main contact should ensure that none of the signatures responsible for the paper have been omitted and that the aforementioned co-authorship criteria are met, thus avoiding fictitious or gift authorship, which is an incorrect academic practice.

9. It will be the responsibility of the author or authors to point out significant errors in their published articles, and they have the obligation to communicate this to the Journal as soon as possible in order to modify the article, withdraw or erratum.

9.1 If the error is detected by any of the members of the Committee, the author or authors will be obliged to prove that their work is correct.

10. Each of the actors in the process, with the exception of the author or authors, will guarantee and maintain the confidentiality of the articles and the editorial process until publication.

11. The content of each article received will be the responsibility of the author, as well as the opinions, comments and reflections that arise from it and at no time will compromise any of the members of the journal or its Committees.

[1] Anonymity of those who have carried out the work and the evaluation.

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History of the Journal

Novum, revista de Ciencias Sociales is a publication that was born in 1986 under the name NOVUM temas pedagógicos. At that time it was printed at the Centro de Publicaciones de la Universidad Nacional Manizales and coordinated by several professors of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 

Edition No. 1 of the first period, published in December 1986, was entitled "The meaning of humanities in professional training" and was under the direction of psychologist Oscar Lopez R. of the pedagogical advisory service. It had two (2) papers; the first one, a presentation by the director. And the second, by Professor Patricia Noguera de Echeverry, who at that time belonged to the Architecture program, and Professor Carlos Alberto Ospina, who at that time belonged to the Humanities section of the University.

Edition No. 2 of the first period, published in April 1987, was entitled "La docencia al servicio de un hombre nuevo" (Teaching in the service of a new man), and like the first edition, it was directed by the psychologist Oscar López R. of the pedagogical advisory service; it had four (4) papers; the first one, an introduction by the director. The second one was written by Professor Luis Álvaro Salazar under the title "Quality of teaching". The third paper was written by Professor Gonzalo Escobar Téllez and the fourth paper was written by Professor Gustavo Adolfo López Ramírez, both under the title "University and society".

Issue No. 3 of the first period, published in April 1988, did not have a particular title, only NOVUM Magazine. And, it continued under the direction of Psychologist Oscar López R. of the pedagogical advisory service. 

Edition No. 4 of the first epoch was published in 1990 on a quarterly basis by the Department of Human Sciences and under the direction of Psychologist Oscar López R. and Professor Patricia Noguera de Echeverry, as well as the following editions No. 5, No. 6 and No. 7 of the first epoch. 

Starting in 1991, from Issue No. 8, the Journal had an editorial team in charge of its management; its periodicity was changed to biannual and continued under the same direction of the previous editions until Issue No. 20-21 of the first semester of 2000. 

For Issue No. 22 of the second semester of 2000, the direction and sub-direction of the Journal were assumed by Professors Carlos Yáñez Canal and Guillermo Navarro Agudelo, respectively.

In 2005, Issue No. 30 brought several changes, among them, a new name, from Revista NOVUM to NOVUM, Revista de Ciencias Sociales Aplicadas; also, the periodicity was changed from semiannual to annual and, the direction passed into the hands of Professor Javier Orlando Lozano. The following edition No. 31 of 2006 continued under the same parameters to end this first period. From 2007 to 2010 there were no publications of the Journal. 

In 2011, NOVUM, Journal of Applied Social Sciences began its second period with interesting reforms, it went from being the Journal of the Department of Human Sciences to being the Journal of the School of Management with Issue No. 1 entitled "Cultural Management: From the professional field to the disciplinary field"; in it, 16 articles were published focused on a new field of action at the professional level for our country, Cultural and Communicative Management. 

In 2012, many changes occurred in the work team and the journal presented a delay in the publication of its editions. Thus, Issue No. 2, which corresponded to this year and was managed by Professor Javier Lozano in the company of assistant students of the undergraduate program in Cultural and Communication Management, could only be printed until 2015, under the direction of Professor Jorge Alberto Forero Santos. 

Editions No. 3 of 2013, No. 4 of 2014, No. 5 of 2015, managed to be rescued and redesigned between 2016 and 2017, under the direction of Professor Jorge Alberto Forero Santos and the co-direction of graduate Diana Minerva Idárraga. 

For Issue No. 6 of 2016, a work team was formalized that together with the Editorial Committee consolidated in 2012 managed to reactivate the annual publications that were pending. That year it was considered that the projections of NOVUM, Journal of Applied Social Sciences should be adjusted to technological changes. Thus, it was decided to enter the digital era. 

This resulted in moving from paper to electronic publication. Starting with this edition, we began to think about the possibility of indexing the journal in the National Indexer Publindex of Colciencias and in different international indexers such as REDIB, Latindex, DOAJ, Redalyc, among others; for which we tried to: First, carry out evaluations of the articles by academic peers recognized by Colciencias. Second, to maintain an image standard in the publication. Third, to publish the title, abstract and keywords of the articles in English. Fourth, comply with the periodicity declared in the ISSN; among other necessary conditions. 

Issue No. 7 of 2017 retains the aforementioned conditions.

For 2018 a new change is presented this given that, a vital condition in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities is that scientific publications must be of biannual character. Based on this standard, the change of periodicity of the Journal from annual to biannual was managed before the National Library. As a result, three editions have been published to date, No. 8-I, No. 8-II and No. 9-I, and one edition is in the process of evaluation and correction of articles, No. 9-II of 2019.

Among all the changes that have taken place so far and following the guidelines of Publindex of Minciencias, the Editorial Committee and the International Scientific Committee are being renewed for a period of two years (2022-2024). However, it is important to record here the names of the members of the previous Committees for their effort and dedication to this academic work:

2011-2018:

• Dra. Luz Arabany Ramírez Castañeda (UN), PhD. en Sostenibilidad, Tecnología y Humanismo. Departamento de Informática y Computación.
• Dr. Julián García González (UN), PhD. en Literatura Francesa y Comparada. Departamento de Ciencias Humanas.
• Dr. Gabriel Eduardo Escobar Arias (UN), PhD. en Ingenieria, Industria y Organizaciones. Departamento de Administración.
• Mg. José Gabriel Carvajal Orozco (UN), MSc. en Ciencias de la Organización. Departamento de Administración.
• Esp. Carlos Yánez Canal (UN), ESP. en Docencia Universitaria. Departamento de Ciencias Humanas.

Since 2018 the Journal is indexed in the international indexer Red de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico REDIB, and thereafter by indexers such as EuroPub, NSD, DOAJ and REDALYC.

As this is only the first step to be recognized as an important publication within the field of Social and Human Sciences, the Journal team continues to work under the parameters required by the indexers to be included in their databases.