About the Journal

Description

Docere is a biannual publication of the Department of Training and Academic Updating (DEFAA), affiliated with the Dirección General de Docencia de Pregrado of the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), aimed at higher education and secondary education teachers. Since 2009, it has disseminated articles that contribute to the development of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values in higher education teachers to help them face their practice in line with the challenges of the current context, primarily related to the planning, implementation, follow-up, and evaluation of teaching and learning, and their own educational practice.

General Objective

The general objective of the DOCERE journal is to enrich the knowledge of teachers in the upper secondary and higher education levels within the state, region, and country, by publishing high-quality articles on themes related to the areas of training established in the Institutional Program for Teacher Training and Updating (PIFOD): Institutional Identity, Curriculum Design, Teaching Methodologies, Educational Resources and ICT Applied to Education, Educational Assessment, Foreign Languages, Humanistic Education, and Tutoring.

Specific Objectives

Based on the above, the following specific objectives are proposed:

  1. Encourage written production by teachers in the upper secondary and higher education levels in the state, region, and country by providing a space for expression where they can share their experiences, analyses, and educational projects, among others, which foster reflection on teaching practice and promote continuous teacher training.
  2. Promote the comprehensive development of teachers in the areas proposed in the PIFOD.
  3. Encourage analytical-critical thinking in teachers and continuous reflection on their own practice.
  4. Strengthen good educational practices and guide them toward educational innovation to achieve changes that support the formative processes of students.
  5. Connect the UAA with other institutions of higher and secondary education in the state, region, and country through the distribution of the journal in both printed and electronic formats.
  6. Disseminate the services and activities of the DEFAA and the institution, linked to the work of teachers in current education.

Main Distinctions

Docere has the Exclusive Title Usage Registration Number: 04-2018-041714054800-102, as well as ISSN 2007-6487 (printed version) and ISSN 2683-2526 (electronic version), granted by the Instituto Nacional del Derecho de Autor (INDAUTOR). It is also part of the Red de Revistas Académicas de la UAA (RedRUAA) and is indexed in Dialnet and Latindex (Regional System of Information on Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal), catalog 2.0.

Digital Preservation

The contents hosted on the Open Journal System (OJS) platform of the Docere journal are digitally preserved according to the processes established for this purpose on the server managed by the Department of Networks and Telecommunications of the Dirección General de Planeación y Desarrollo at the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (UAA). In general, this process consists of the following:

  1. Automatic backup every 24 hours to an external unit, with access to historical backups for up to 45 days, including:
    • System configuration files
    • The database
    • Files from the operating system, OJS (Open Journal System), including the journals
  2. A log of the backup status, which is sent to the administrator of the Institutional Server, where all activities related to this process are carried out.
  3. Automated monitoring of these backups to track:
    • Hard Drive space usage
    • CPU usage
    • Memory usage

Open Access Policy

Docere is a non-profit academic publication that provides open access to its content: its distribution is free of charge for authors, readers, and reviewers.

It is currently published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0. In accordance with this, authors agree to release their copyrights under this shared license, which allows anyone to share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format under the following terms:

  • Give credit to the author of the text
  • Do not use the material for commercial purposes
  • Do not transform or modify the material

Authors assign the right of first publication to this journal but retain their copyrights, so they can make other independent and additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the article version published in this journal (for example, including it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), as long as they clearly state that the work was first published in this journal.

Plagiarism Prevention

The DOCERE journal uses the specialized tool iThenticate to detect similarities with other published electronic texts, and all submitted articles undergo this process as a preventive measure to avoid plagiarism in any form.

Bibliographic Reference Creation

The Docere journal uses the APA (American Psychological Association) format for citing and referencing.

Article Peer Review System

To ensure the quality of the content, the Docere journal will implement a double-blind peer review system, maintaining the anonymity of authors and reviewers. The following activities will be carried out in the DEFAA:

  1. Conduct an initial reading of the articles to verify that they meet the call's requirements.
  2. Review the similarities of the submitted text with other published works using iThenticate, a specialized tool for detecting matches with other electronic publications, to prevent plagiarism.
  3. Propose two reviewers for the evaluation of articles that pass points 1 and 2.
  4. Communicate the review results to authors, in the following terms:
    • Favorable. No changes
    • Favorable. Addressing comments
    • Unfavorable. The article requires major revisions

In case of disagreement between favorable and unfavorable decisions, or any situation not covered in this call, the DEFAA, as the responsible department for the publication of the Docere journal, will determine the final verdict, which will be final.

Selection of Reviewers

Reviewers are invited based on their professional profile to assess the assigned text, from a directory that is updated with each call.