About the Journal
Basic information
Title: INDICE HISTÓRICO ESPAÑOL
ISSN: 2339-6987
Publisher: Facultat de Geografia i Història, c/ Montalegre 6-8, 3rd. floor, office 3064 // 08001 Barcelona
URL: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/ihe
Contact: Carme Riu, by post mail (publisher) and e-mail: carmeriu@ub.edu
Annual journal. Blind peers will evaluate all the articles.
Organization chart of the journal
Director: Paola Lo Cascio
Coordinator: Lluís Pons Pujol
Editor-in-chief: M. Carmen Riu de Martín
Advisory council: Teresa Abelló; Agustí Alcoberro; Rafael Aracil; Xavier Ballestín; Giovanni C. Cattini; Jaume Dantí; Víctor Gavín; Andreu Mayayo; Alessandra Pecci; José Manuel Rúa Fernández; Marta Sancho; Antoni Segura; Joan Villarroya.
Objective
It is a history magazine intended for specialists and the people interested in delving into specific topics. Among its objectives are to critically analyze the new lines of historical research, the review of aspects that have been modified; as well as making known the outstanding bibliography that has appeared in recent times on the various types of topics that are discussed in the articles, the states of the matter, or in the bibliographic contributions.
It is a research journal, in which the authors present new contributions of both content and methodology. This is structured in various sections: tributes, articles, states of the matter and bibliographic reviews, through which a varied knowledge is included that is structured in various areas, in such a way that each section presents new aspects to take into account.
The third stage of the magazine begins with issue 134. From now on, the publication will be online, except where an institution or an individual requests its printing on paper.
The content is restructured and this new stage includes articles, states of the art and bibliographical reviews on topics of Spanish history and general history corresponding to the stages that go from Prehistory to the present time.
Journal history
The prestigious historian Jaume Vicens Vives founded the journal INDICE HISTÓRICO ESPAÑOL in 1953. It was conceived as a critical and informative quarterly publication based on recent bibliography on the history of Spain and Latin America.
In the initial stage, each volume (made up of several issues) contained a prologue written by a specialist, and consisted of a state of the art on a historical topic; approach that was maintained for many years.
The Latin American section disappeared in 1992. Since then it has focused only on publications on the history of Spain, although it has maintained a section on general works. As of 2011, the journal experienced some changes in order to adapt it to new information and communication technologies. In this way, a double version had been presented: 1) In paper format; 2) In electronic access format. The first format included states of the art and reviews of works of special interest to scholars of Spanish history. The second one was used to comment on new publications distributed in various sections in chronological order.
As of the year 2021, and including issue 134, the journal has modified its approaches. It is published in digital format and its structure consists of the following areas: tributes, articles, states of the art and bibliographic reviews. Therefore, the publication of online reviews has been suppressed and an annual issue has been carried out.
The history of the journal can be reviewed using the following link, that summarizes its history from its beginnings to the present: https://www.ub.edu/cehi-expoihe
Open access policy
Actually, the journal is in digital format and Open Access. The texts are published under the Creative Commons Attribution no Derivatives 4.0 International License (CC-BY-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
The first stage of the journal (issues 1-124) is free and open access. The issues of the second period (starting from number 125) were published first in a printed edition and, after a year, may be consulted through this portal, just like the issues of the first period.
Reviews published on a regular basis are available in free and open access.
Starting from issue 134 (2021), the edition is exclusively in digital format.
All content: texts, textual quotes, works and electronic resources is open access.
Financial information
Publisher : CEHI (Centre d'Estudis Històrics Internacionals), established at Pavelló de la República (Avda. Cardenal Vidal i Barraquer 34-36, 08035, Barcelona).
Secretaria: Facultat de Geografia i Història de la Universitat de Barcelona (C. Montalegre 6-8, 3rd floor, office 3064, 08001 Barcelona).
Contacts: M. Carmen Riu de Martín (carmeriu@ub.edu).
General e-mail: ihe@ub.edu
Funding will be partly provided by its own sources, and partly by those that are part of scientific university journals.
It does not charge fees to authors for editing and publishing their works. Nor do the authors receive any sum for the published works.
Periodicity
At first it had a quarterly periodicity that was maintaned until 1957, when it start to be published three a year and in 1961 its periodicity was two copies per year. This was maintaned for many decades except for a period in which it could not be published due to lack of Economic budget. It began to be annual from 1998.
Nowadays, the journal maintains an annual periodicity; it is published during the first quarter of the following year in a digital edition. Its works can be consulted on this websit. They appear in pdf version, although the publication of copies in paper format is not ruled out - on demand.
Articles and states of the art can also be downloaded through the cooperative repository Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert.
Editorial policy
Academic content:
INDICE HISTÓRICO ESPAÑOL is a journal of the Centre d’Estudis Històrics Internacionals that publishes research articles, states of the art and reviews of new publications. It focuses mainly on the History of Spain from Prehistory to the contemporary age, although it may include studies on World History when the contribution of research or historiography involves novelties. It is also involved in collecting studies about methodology, history theory and historiography, highlighting the introduction of new perspectives of study on the different fields (political, economic and cultural). Most of the published papers will be scientific contributions submitted by the authors themselves, although it is not ruled out that members of the Editorial Board could make proposals on specific topics.
Therefore, INDICE HISTÓRICO ESPAÑOL aims to attract the interest of professionals in historical disciplines, teachers, students and researchers from various fields of knowledge, favoring the publication of quality works by authors from various universities and research centers, both national and international.
Evaluation of the works:
Articles and state of the matter are evaluated by the blind eye system. The journal complies with the European regulations for publications, therefore strictly following the blind peer review of all submitted papers. In this way, each author agrees that his study should be evaluated by two specialists in the subject, and accepts to make any changes that may be suggested. These criteria have been successfully promoted by the European Association of Science Editors in order to create scientific journals that enjoy a high standard and rigor. Only the bibliographical reviews will not be evaluated through this system, but specialists with domain of the subject studied in the work will be asked.
Languages:
The journal allows articles written in any of the official languages of Spain (Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Basque), and also in English, French, Italian and Portuguese. When the language of the article is not English, an English translation of the title, abstract, and keywords must be included, as indicated by the European Association of Science Editors.
Plagiarism detection:
The publication attempts to detect plagiarism using Internet search engines and free software such as Plagium and Plagirism detector. It also uses the Urkund software, which is available to journals belonging to the University of Barcelona (CRAI).
These mechanisms serve to detect plagiarism taking into account the following aspects: the copying of aspects published by other authors without citing them, or the repetition of studies by the same author with a different title and without further elaboration of the work. As is obvious, the author will be prevented from publishing them in Indice Histórico Español, or they will be removed if they have already been published.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that the article is original and unpublished and has not been previously published in whole or in part, nor is it in the process of being selected by another journal or dissemination platform. If the manuscript includes references to content that has been previously published or disseminated (conferences, congresses, etc.), this must be expressly indicated. Therefore, the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) y el Código ético de integridad y buenas prácticas de la Universidad de Barcelona are followed
Ethical Statement
The journal values and promotes intellectual freedom in scientific research.
The journal does not accept works that are a copy of other authors, that have already been published, that do not have a clear personal contribution, nor does it support translations. Blind peer review should serve to ensure the quality and scientific originality of its content. Publishers, reviewers and authors assume these ethical rules: originality, confidentiality, impartiality and anonymity, to guarantee the scientific quality of published works.
Conflict of interest:
Editors guarantee that there will be no conflict of interest of any kind, especially between authors and evaluators. All papers will be evaluated by the blind peer system and, in case of conflict with any of the evaluators, a third party will decide on the publication of the work.
Confidentiality:
Editors will take care not to disclose the name of the author until the work is published, as well as the names of the evaluators. Incoming manuscripts for publication and proposed for publication will be treated with maximum confidentiality and respect, during the evaluation process as well as during the production process. Editors guarantee the confidentiality of manuscripts received and that their content may be accessible before publication to third parties.
Interoperability protocols
The magazine implements the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), a collection protocol for metadata exchange based on the Dublin Core scheme. This feature can be verified in the following request: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/index/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=IHE
Interactivity services
The publication, being open access, can be found through search engines such as: www.google.com and http://www.apple.com , as well as other digital platforms that allow the localization of content.
We can highlight the Academia platform that hosts research content: https://www.academia.edu and another that facilitates the dissemination of news and articles linked to the magazine, called X: https://www.twitter.com
Archiving and digital preservation
This magazine uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed system among collaborating libraries, allowing them to create permanent archives of the magazine for conservation and preservation purposes. The LOCKSS editorial manifest page is as follows: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/REIRE/gateway/lockss
