Content Dissemination and Bibliographic Policies

Content Dissemination and Bibliographic Policies

The Latin American Journal of Educational Technology (RELATEC) promotes maximum dissemination and accessibility of its scientific content through a set of policies and tools designed to ensure visibility, interoperability, and long-term preservation.

Citation standards: Each article includes a clearly visible “How to cite this article” section, following the APA 7th edition style, with the full reference to ensure proper academic citation. Other citation formats are supported through export tools.

Bibliographic export: RELATEC allows automatic export of citations and references to reference management tools such as Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, and RefWorks, in formats including BibTeX, RIS, and RefMan.

Social media dissemination: RELATEC actively promotes the dissemination of its publications via academic and general social networks through sharing buttons and coordinated digital communication strategies.

Interoperability: The journal implements OAI-PMH and RSS protocols, allowing its content to be harvested by institutional repositories, databases, and national or international aggregators.

Digital preservation: RELATEC ensures the long-term preservation of its publications through institutional backups and its participation in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), a distributed digital preservation network based on LOCKSS technology.

Metadata Transfer Protocol

RELATEC – Latin American Journal of Educational Technology ensures the transfer and harvesting of its publication metadata through open protocols and international standards, in order to facilitate dissemination in open access repositories and scientific content aggregators.

Specifically, RELATEC Provides an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol, accessible at the following URL:
https://relatec.unex.es/index.php/relatec/oai

Exposes metadata in formats compatible with international interoperability standards used by systems such as: OpenAIRE, Google Scholar, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). Includes in its metadata essential elements such as: title, abstract, keywords, authorship, institutional affiliation, references, persistent identifiers (DOI), and usage licenses (Creative Commons), in compliance with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).

This protocol ensures that RELATEC’s contents are accessible, visible, and reusable across major open science dissemination platforms.

Digital preservation policy

RELATEC – Latin American Journal of Educational Technology ensures the long-term preservation of its published content through a strategy combining institutional backup, interoperability, and distributed digital preservation. The journal’s files and metadata are hosted on institutional servers at the University of Extremadura, which are subject to regular backup policies, and are managed through Open Journal Systems (OJS), enabling their export in structured formats and facilitating their recovery and migration.

RELATEC also participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), a digital preservation service developed by the Public Knowledge Project for journals managed through OJS. Through the PKP|PN plugin, the journal’s published issues, articles, files, and metadata are automatically transferred to a distributed network of nodes that uses the LOCKSS digital preservation software, where verified copies of the deposited content are maintained.

PKP PN operates as a dark archive: preserved content is not publicly accessible while the journal continues its normal operation. In the event of prolonged loss of access, cessation of publication, or another trigger event defined by the network, the preserved copies may be used to restore public access to the journal’s content.

Together with DOI identifiers, the OAI-PMH protocol, Creative Commons licences, and institutional backups, this strategy strengthens the continuity, authenticity, integrity, and future accessibility of the scholarly record published by RELATEC.