Policies
Open Access Policy
RLACS provides immediate open Access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
The Open Access journal contents of ERLACS are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0 License) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright is retained by the author(s).
Abstracting and Indexing Services
ERLACS is indexed by many catalogue services, including Scopus (2023 Citescore: 2.7), JSTOR, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), SocINDEX (EBSCO), the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), Political Science Database (ProQuest), Academic OneFile (Gale), Latindex, the European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS), International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), CSA Sociological Abstracts, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, Portal Europeo REDIAL CEISAL, and Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal, Latindex. Also in Scimago.
All ERLACS content is indexed with CrossRef and assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). This means that all ERLACS references are available so the publishing community can track citations. In addition, ERLACS is available for harvesting via OAI-PMH.
ERLACS has joined the Latin America Research Commons (LARC), a portal for cutting-edge, fully open-access research on Latin America and the Caribbean. Funded by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), LARC is dedicated to ensuring the widest possible dissemination of monographs and journals in all disciplines relating to Latin American studies.
Disclaimer
The ideas expressed by the respective authors in the articles do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of ERLACS, its Editorial Board, or the institutions that publish it.
Archiving
To ensure the permanency of all publications, this journal utilises CLOCKSS archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.
ERLACS fully supports and encourages author self-archiving of all content. This journal is registered with SHERPA/RoMEO to ensure that the license terms and self-archiving policy of the journal are clear.
Self-archiving
ERLACS fully supports and encourages author self-archiving of all content. This journal is registered with SHERPA/RoMEO to ensure that the license terms and self-archiving policies of the journals are clear.
Peer review
All submissions are initially assessed by an Editor, who decides whether or not the article fits the scope of the journal and is suitable for peer review. Submissions considered suitable are assigned to several independent experts, who assess the article for relevance, clarity, validity, and sound methodology.
The European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies follows a thorough, double-blind, peer review procedure by external reviewers (authors and reviewers remain anonymous for the review process). The anonymity of authors and reviewers will be monitored with the utmost care.
The review period is expected to take between four and eight weeks. Reviewers are asked to provide formative feedback, even if an article is not deemed suitable for publication in the journal. Based on the comments, texts submitted can be (1) approved, (2) approved subject to limited changes, (3) invited for resubmission after extensive revision, or (4) rejected.
The peer review process is supervised by the editor or sub-editor responsible for the issue in question.
Based on the reviewer reports the editor will make a recommendation for rejection, minor or major revisions, or acceptance. The recommendations and justifications of both peer reviewers are collected by the editor or sub-editor and further instructions are given on how the reviewers'; comments can be incorporated into a possible new version (in case 2 or 3) and the period within which this new version is expected. Overall editorial responsibility rests with the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, who is supported by an expert on the international Editorial Board and/or the International Advisory Board.
It is up to the Editor-in-Chief to mediate in the event of two conflicting or very different reviews, by appointing a third reviewer. If changes are required, it is up to the Editor-in-Chief to decide whether the reviewers need to be re-engaged for the next version of the article.
As your text will be assessed anonymously, please do not state your name in the document and delete your details from the document properties. If the text contains references to your publications, please also replace them with the words ‘Reference to previous author publication’. You can re-enter these details if your text is accepted for publication.
Non-peer-reviewed sections
In addition to the peer-reviewed part of the journal, there are also sections for the publication of contributions that have not been peer-reviewed. This includes book and film reviews. The book and film editors are responsible for the assessment in these cases.
Advertisement policy
The European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies only displays advertisements relevant to its scope and will be of interest to the readership. Commercials or banner advertising shall in no way be offensive and will not include information that can decrease the credibility of the journal.
Website images
This website contains several free-of-use images and materials. Every effort has been made to trace rights holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers would be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.
