About the Journal

Focus and scope

BInvestigación was a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published annually in digital format by the International Baccalaureate program at the Center for Secondary Education of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes. It was published from 2019 to 2020, and its archive contains two issues, available in open access for consultation.

It contributed to the dissemination of scientific knowledge and the analysis of current humanistic and social issues, produced by students of the International Baccalaureate at the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes through the publication of research articles to promote multidisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration, encourage research development, and bring scientific and humanistic culture closer to the reading public.

Its main objective was to disseminate, communicate, and spread knowledge and creativity, as well as to promote the development of research at the upper secondary education level, with quality standards at the local, national, and international levels through the publication of original articles, essays, and literary texts.

Its content was aimed at students, teachers, researchers, and the general public interested in scientific research and the dissemination of knowledge in general.

The content published therein is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Evaluation process

The published works were submitted to an evaluation process by the Scientific Council, made up of a team of experts in the subject areas belonging to the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes.

The ruling on submissions could fall into three categories: accepted, accepted with modifications, and rejected. Once accepted, it was incorporated into the issue under construction.

Frequency of publication

BInvestigación was an annual publication.

Open access policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle of offering the public free access to research and content in order to contribute to the global exchange of knowledge.

Interoperability protocols

This digital journal, hosted and published by Open Journal System (OJS), implements the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol, a harvesting protocol for metadata exchange based on the Dublin Core schema.

This can be verified using the OAI-MPH Validator (https://validator.oaipmh.com/), using the following URL:

OAI-PMH URL: https://revistas.uaa.mx/index.php/bi/oai

You can also check:

https://revistas.uaa.mx/index.php/bi/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

Digital preservation and archiving systems

Actions at the institutional level:

The content hosted on the Open Journal System (OJS) platform of the journal  BInvestigación are digitally preserved on the designated server, in accordance with the processes established by the Editorial Department of the General Directorate of Dissemination and Outreach and the Networks and Telecommunications Department of the General Directorate of Planning and Development of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (UAA). In general, this process consists of the following:

- Editorial Department, General Directorate for Dissemination and Outreach:

  1. Frequent maintenance of the site and technical administration of the institutional OJS.
  2. Version updates.
  3. Automatic backup every 12 hours, with the possibility of historical access to previous backups; involving:
    1. OJS configuration files.
    2. The database.
    3. Backup log.
    4. Automated monitoring of backups, tracking storage space.

- Networks and Telecommunications Department, General Directorate of Planning and Development:

  1. Monthly backup of OJS, with implications similar to the constant backups of the Editorial Department, involving:
    1. Backup log.
    2. Automated monitoring of backups, tracking storage space.

Complementary strategies:

BInvestigación, having been published in the Open Journal System (OJS) software from the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), supported its publications in the archiving systems with which the platform is compatible, such as:

  1. Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (CLOCKSS): A system that guarantees the secure and permanent digital preservation of publications based on technology developed by Stanford University. It allows participating libraries to archive digital journals and their content by validating cache memories and restoring them in case of loss or corruption.
  2. Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS): This is an open source tool created by Stanford University Library that makes it easier for libraries to preserve electronic journals by periodically collecting newly published content. The files are continuously verified with copies stored at other institutions, allowing any damaged or lost information to be restored. (See the Publishing Manifesto: https://revistas.uaa.mx/index.php/bi/gateway/lockss).