MUNDO DE ANTES is the Journal of the Instituto de Arqueología y Museo of the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, in partnership with the Instituto Superior de Estudios Sociales (ISES-CONICET). The journal is dedicated to the promotion of original and unpublished research in the fields of Social Sciences, with special reference to Archaeology, Anthropology, and Ethnohistory, destined to the general academic public. MUNDO DE ANTES do not charge any publication fees to their authors, and submissions can be permanently made in accordance to its open call for papers.

 

Sections Policy

This journal consists of two fixed sections:

Opinion Essay: expressly requested to a specialist in the selected topic by the Editorial Board, in order to be treated in each volume of MUNDO DE ANTES. The length of these contributions must not exceed thirty (30) pages. Essays are commented by two peers, also specialists in the selected topic, whose considerations will be published in the form of comments, with a suggested length between 300 and 500 words. This feedback from specialists is destined to pose different approaches to the topic, and this is why the three persons involved should adjust their submissions to this objective. The author will have the right to reply these comments, in a text with a suggested length between 300 and 500 words.

 

Scientific Articles: these must be unpublished and original contributions, resulted from a scientific research. A manuscript sent to MUNDO DE ANTES must not be published or submitted in the same form to another publication medium for its consideration. These are submitted to external evaluation by, at least, two researchers with experience in the manuscript’s subject, following the system of Double-Blind Peer Review. Articles should have a maximum length of forty (40) pages.

 

Publishing Frequency

From 2024 onwards, MUNDO DE ANTES adhere to the Continuous Publication Mode in it’s different sections.

 

Peer review process

In order to publish articles in MUNDO DE ANTES, the authors will accept the review of their submissions by the Editorial Board, in order to assure its pertinence and compliance to Editorial Guidelines; and the evaluation by, at least, two external reviewers to the Editorial Board, with proven experience in the manuscript’s subject, following the system of Double-Blind Peer Review. Both the identity of the reviewers as the one of the author/authors will remain confidential during the evaluation process. The responsible for the selection of reviewers is the Editorial Board.

Reviewers may suggest modifications regarding style and/or content considered necessaries for the publication. In case that one of them accepts the article (with or without modifications) and the second one rejects it, it will be sent to a third reviewer to untie the decision. The Editorial Board is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles and its decision is final.

Once the manuscript is submitted in its final version, the author/s must clearly indicate, in a separate note, the changes that were made and justify those aspects suggested by the reviewer/s that were not taken into consideration. The Editorial Board will have the final decision regarding those modifications. Once the journal receives the corrected manuscript, the acceptance or rejection is determined. Authors will be notified of the reception as well as the acceptance or rejection of their manuscript.

Estimated time from reception of a manuscript until its acceptance is approximately four months.

 

Open access policy

MUNDO DE ANTES is an open access journal, which implies that all of its content can be copied without any cost for users and/or institutions. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, seek or establish links with any of the articles published in the journal without requesting permission to editors or authors. These actions are in line with the definitions of the BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) and under Creative Commons License. Authors looking forward to distribute their articles in any open access site must use the downloaded version of our website that includes a presentation cover in which every copyright data is showed. This journal is published under Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives Creative Commons License (CC-BY-NC-ND). Copying and distribution by any means is permitted as long as the recognition of the authors is maintained, no commercial use is made of the works, and no modifications are made to them.

 

Digital preservation policies

MUNDO DE ANTES is part of the institutional repository of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and IML of the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, which digitally archives and guarantees the preservation of published information. The volumes of the MUNDO DE ANTES Journal are accessible on the web page http://mundodeantes.org.ar/.  The archives are currently being uploaded to the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) systems (January 2024). In addition, in order to ensure the preservation of these files in off-line mode, multiple backups have been generated on external disks.

 

Política de Gestión de Datos de Investigación

MUNDO DE ANTES adheres to open research data policies. It is expected that the data supporting the research findings from which the article originates will be archived in a public repository suitable for sharing.

The reference to the research data used should contain the identification, location and method of access to the data using a unique and persistent identifier (e.g. DOI, handle, among others). In this sense, each set or subset of data (dataset) should be cited independently.

Authors should report the availability of data by citing them at the end of the “References cited” section (see rules in the Submissions tab).

 

Code of Ethics and Good Practices

MUNDO DE ANTES adheres to the Code of Ethics and Good Practices for editors of scientific journals proposed by the Committee of Publication Ethics, in order to maintain the ethics and quality of the published articles.

 

General commitment of MUNDO DE ANTES

The MUNDO DE ANTES Editorial Board is committed to avoid conflicts of interest between authors and reviewers, ensuring that the manuscripts sent for publication are evaluated only on the basis of their content, without interference of criteria outside the scientific and academic quality of the text. Likewise, authors and reviewers must declare any previous conflicts of interest.

Editors are responsible for the selection of reviewers, and the final decisions over manuscripts. In the case of Opinion Essays, the Board reserves the right to ask for changes in the content or tone of the comment, if it does not respect the general standards established for the section. In the case that the papers accepted by the reviewers exceed the available space in the journal, the Editorial Board reserves the right to publish some of them in the following issue, with previous authorization of the author/s to be maintained in the waiting list.

All the information related to submitted manuscripts and external reviews is confidential and will only be issued to authors and reviewers, always respecting the established Double-Blind system.

 

Authors’ rights and responsibilities

The author/s are solely responsible for the content of their articles (both ideas as empirical data), for their veracity, originality, and unpublished character, as well as for the legal right to publish any material copyright protected, for which they must request a written authorization and present it with the originals. Authors using unpublished materials from others, including thesis or dissertations from less than five (5) years ago, or personal communication references, must send a written permission to the Editorial Board, provided by the person/s responsible for such information, which authorizes them to quote such manuscript or communication. Authors are also responsible for the correction of quotations, the fidelity of information, and the presentation of the manuscript in the requested form, respecting the editorial guidelines solicited by the journal. With the sending of the manuscript, the author/s must sign a declaration regarding the submitted paper, ensuring that it meets these requirements (see subsection Instruction for Authors).

The author/s must inform an electronic address to the Editorial Board, which will be used for communications. In case of changes, they have the obligation to notify the new one to the Editorial Board. In case of not doing so, the Editorial Board is not responsible for interruptions in the communication due to this cause. If there is more than one author, they must choose which one of them will have communications with the Editorial Board.

All of the authors must communicate any conflict, whether financial or other types of interests that may influence the results or interpretations of their manuscripts

MUNDO DE ANTES suggests that those papers with more than one author can explicit the type of participation of each one of them following the CASRAI CRediT classification.

The order of the authors is determined in function of their intellectual contribution to the article, being the main author the one who made the greater intellectual contribution to its development.

Authorship roles are established according to CRediT - HD CAICYT LAB guidelines:

1) Project administration; 2) Funds acquisition; 3) Formal analysis; 4) Conceptualization; 5) Data curation; 6) Writing-revision and editing; 7) Research; 8) Methodology; 9) Resources; 10) Writing-original draft; 11) Software; 12) Supervision; 13) Validation; 14) Visualization.

 

	Academic contribution
Author's name and surname	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
<names> <surname>	X	X			X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X
<names> <surname>			X	X			X	X				X		X

Although it is not necessary that all roles are fulfilled, each author and its contributions should be pondered within some of the mentioned categories.

 

Reviewers’ rights and responsibilities

The reviewers could suggest style and/or content modifications considered necessary for the publication. In case that one of the reviewers accepts the article (with or without) modifications and the second one rejects it, it will be sent to a third reviewer to untie the situation, remaining the Editorial Board the responsible in last instance for the final decision taken in regards to its publication.

The Editorial Board commits to provide the selected reviewers with the necessary materials for conducting the evaluation (manuscript with figures and tables, review forms, current editorial standards), and to respond all questions relevant to the task. In addition, the reviewers will obtain a certificate expressing gratitude for their collaboration as External Reviewers of the journal. The Editorial Board is also responsible for guaranteeing the Double-Blind review process, and compliance to the good practices established by the journal.

 

Regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism

Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Submitted manuscripts are run through free digital detection tools for plagiarism and self-plagiarism (Plag software). In case of identification of this situation in texts under revision, these will be automatically rejected and will not be published. If plagiarism or lack of ethics are detected and confirmed in published papers, these will be deleted from the website and an explanatory note will be posted shortly after.