About the Press

The UMA Editorial publishing house, created in 2016, is the heir to the edition carried out in the Publications Service for more than four decades. Throughout its history it has compiled a catalog of monographs that exceeds a thousand titles and brings together more than twenty magazines.

Under this seal the edition and publication of:

  • Scientific Publications.Magazines and book collections submitted to the double-blind evaluation system.
  • Didactic publications aimed at students.Which can be found in the different series of the Manuals collection, and in the recently created Open Educational Resources collection.
    Creative, cultural or dissemination publications.Collection of Exhibition Catalogs or poetic anthologies.
  • Institutional publications. Inaugural lectures, tribute books or other works required by the governing bodies of the University.

The Publications and Scientific Dissemination Service is responsible for managing the UMA Editorial seal and the UMA Divulga Plan.

Editorial Policy

Scientific collections
They are governed by the criteria established by the CEA/APQ quality seal and are subject to the scientific evaluation process through double-blind peer evaluation.

Educational publications aimed at students

These publications, which can be in printed and digital format for sale (Manuals Collection) or only for open access (Open Educational Resources Collection), undergo an internal double-blind peer evaluation process.

Publications out of collection
Academic works of special scientific or cultural interest published on an exceptional basis, even if they do not fit into existing collections. They are subject to the scientific evaluation process through the double-blind system.

Co-editions
Works co-published with academic or commercial publishers. They follow the same scientific evaluation model as the previous ones, which will be carried out by any of the participating publishers.

Institutional publications
Publications that combine the institutional interest with the informative or the cultural interest and that by their nature do not require the blind peer evaluation system. This is the case of the Exhibition Catalogs collection.

Open Access Policy

The Scientific Publications and Dissemination Service, through the Open Access Monographs Portal and the Scientific Journals Portal, participates in the institutional commitment of the University of Malaga with open access to knowledge and contributes to promoting the global exchange of knowledge.

UMA Editorial makes different types of publications available to users in the open access modality. On the Scientific Journals Portal you can access 38 titles from different branches of knowledge. In the Monograph Portal we can find Conferences, Reports, Exhibition Catalogs, Research Monographs, Study Support Material.

UMA Editorial uses the open access model known as the "diamond route" (Diamond Open Access), in which monographs, journals and information platforms do not charge fees (APC) to either authors or readers.

The Open Monographs Portal and the Scientific Journals Portal offer immediate and completely open access to their content, which means that it is available permanently and free of charge, without any type of embargo or delay. There are no financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing the publications.

For the publication of open monographs, a series of specific collections have been created, such as Conferences, Reports, Interdisciplinary and Open Educational Resources:

  • Conferences
  • Reports
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Educational resources

In open access, any monographic work (manuals, teaching materials, reports, awards, tributes, etc.) that meets the same academic and scientific quality requirements as printed works may be published. All publications will have an ISBN and DOI provided by the Publications and Scientific Dissemination Service.

All works likely to be published in open access will have to comply with the blind peer evaluation system.

The authors recognize and guarantee the legitimate and absolute ownership of the work, as well as the additional material that accompanies it, on which they declare that they do not have any limitation or encumbrance that prevents them from freely disposing or, if applicable, disposing of the corresponding reproduction authorizations, in accordance with current legislation.

Authors must guarantee that the monograph or article is original and has not been previously published. The text contributed for publication will be subjected to a coincidence analysis through the anti-plagiarism system (Ithenticate Similarity Check) of the University of Malaga.

They also declare that the work has not been previously published or submitted to another publisher for consideration, in any other printed or electronic format or in any other language.

The authors will retain the moral rights over the work. The economic rights (reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation) that are

The works disseminated in open access will be identified under the creative commons license of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International type, non-commercial, share alike.

In support of the open science initiative, we encourage authors to deposit the edited version in any repository or academic social network.

Anti-plagiarism

UMA Editorial maintains an anti-plagiarism policy that ensures that all published works are unpublished, through the professional application of the Crossref Similary Check and Ithenticate services to scan all proposals. We use the service on all documents that have passed the editorial grading process and are eligible for peer review submission. The publisher reserves the decision to reject articles with an inadequate similarity percentage.

Peer evaluation process

UMA Editorial applies to all non-institutional publications the double-blind peer system: evaluation of the work of two experts in the subject matter addressed by the study without them knowing the identity of the author or authors, nor vice versa.

To do this, authors must send publication proposals to the request manager of the Publications and Scientific Dissemination Service, which is part of the unit responsible for the UMA Editorial seal. Below the editorial team of the Service:

Review the delivery of the requested documentation: original in PDF and ORCID code.

  • Submit the original to a coincidence analysis with the anti-plagiarism system of the University of Malaga.
  • Check that it meets the formal conditions required for the collection.
  • Anonymize the manuscript and send it to the address of the collection in which publication is requested so that the Board of Directors can report on the suitability of the publication and, if so, report on possible relevant reviewers. If it is out of collection, this report is sent to the member of the Publications Advisory Council of the corresponding area.
  • Send the manuscript for review to the reviewers proposed by the Publication Advisory Board or to the reviewers registered in the databases of expert researchers in the area.
  • Communicate to the author the publisher's decision to publish or reject the book through the request manager.

Ethics and Good Practices

  • Authorship conditions
    The publishing contract establishes the conditions of authorship, by which the author is the exclusive owner of the intellectual property rights of the work; is responsible for the originality of the work and guarantees that it has not previously contracted, nor will it contract, commitments or encumbrances of any type that are likely to infringe the rights that correspond to UMA Editorial. Likewise, it guarantees the non-infringement of personal, intellectual property or other rights of third parties from which any liability for the edition could arise. In this sense, it guarantees that it has all the permissions to exploit with sufficient scope any illustrations, photos, quotes and other content incorporated into the work.
  • Ethical responsibilities
    UMA Editorial guarantees at all times the confidentiality of the evaluation process, the anonymity of the evaluators and the authors, the evaluated content, the reasoned report issued by the evaluators and any other communication issued by the editorial and editorial boards, if applicable.
  • Editorial criteria
    Plagiarism is prohibited. Authors must guarantee that the article is original and has not been previously published. The text contributed for publication will be subjected to a coincidence analysis through the anti-plagiarism system of the University of Malaga.
  • Conditions for authors regarding self-archiving their work in institutional or thematic repositories
    The Scientific Publications and Dissemination Service is responsible for uploading the open access publications edited by UMA Editorial to the Institutional Repository of the University of Malaga (RIUMA). This type of publication will be made under a Creative Commons license in its Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivative Works (CC BY-NC) modality.

Author charges

Authors are not asked to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) for this journal in any case.