The editorial team of Esfera Pública. Revista en Gobernanza y Sociedad reaffirms its commitment to the principles of open access, open science, the public circulation of knowledge, and the free dissemination of scientific research.

All academic contents published by the journal are made available in immediate open access, without embargo periods, economic barriers, subscription requirements, or prior registration for consultation. Any person may access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and reuse the published contents in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise expressly indicated.

Esfera Pública. Revista en Gobernanza y Sociedad adopts a diamond, non-commercial, and non-profit open access model. This means that the journal does not charge authors any fees for the submission, evaluation, editing, peer review, copyediting, layout, or publication of their texts. Nor does it charge readers, institutions, or libraries for access, download, consultation, or reuse of its contents.

The journal does not apply article processing charges (APCs), submission fees, peer-review fees, page charges, colour charges, manuscript withdrawal fees, or publication fees. The journal’s editorial funding is provided by its publishing institution, El Colegio de Jalisco, A. C., in accordance with its commitment to research, scholarly communication, open science, and public access to knowledge.

 

Open access principles

Esfera Pública. Revista en Gobernanza y Sociedad adheres to the general principles of the international declarations that have marked significant milestones in the open access movement:

1. Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)

The journal shares the principle that scientific knowledge should circulate freely as a public good. In accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative, Esfera Pública. Revista en Gobernanza y Sociedad guarantees the open and free availability of the scientific information disseminated through its platform, without economic, legal, or technical barriers that prevent reading, downloading, copying, distributing, printing, searching, or linking.

2. Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003)

The journal adopts open access as a means to expand the visibility, accessibility, circulation, preservation, and social usefulness of scientific research. Contents published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0) may be shared, adapted, transformed, and reused, provided that appropriate credit is given to the authors, the original source of publication is cited, and any changes made are indicated.

3. Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003)

The journal recognises that open access must be sustained by rigorous, transparent, and academically responsible editorial processes. The open publication of research results does not replace or weaken scholarly review; on the contrary, it requires clear standards of evaluation, integrity, traceability, preservation, and editorial quality.

4. San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA, 2012)

The journal recognises that the quality, relevance, and impact of research should not be assessed exclusively through aggregate metrics, such as journal impact factors. Esfera Pública. Revista en Gobernanza y Sociedad supports scholarly assessment based on the intrinsic quality of contributions, their relevance, methodological rigour, argumentative strength, social significance, and contribution to knowledge.

 

Copyright and licence

Authors retain the economic rights over their works and grant Esfera Pública. Revista en Gobernanza y Sociedad the right of first publication.

Published contents are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise expressly indicated. This licence allows users to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material in any medium or format, provided that appropriate credit is given to the authors, the original source of publication is cited, and any changes made are indicated.

The official version of the licence is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

Self-archiving and circulation of contents

Authors may deposit, share, and disseminate the published version of their articles in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, academic networks, curriculum platforms, and other spaces for scholarly circulation, provided that the original publication in Esfera Pública. Revista en Gobernanza y Sociedad is cited and the corresponding licence is maintained.

The journal promotes the broad circulation of its contents as part of its commitment to open access, academic visibility, digital preservation, interoperability, and the democratisation of knowledge.

 

Preservation, metadata, and interoperability

Esfera Pública. Revista en Gobernanza y Sociedad preserves its published contents, final files, and editorial metadata through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, digital preservation mechanisms enabled in the journal, and institutional archiving procedures.

The journal has enabled LOCKSS and CLOCKSS in its editorial platform to support the distributed preservation of published contents and their metadata. It also promotes the use of persistent identifiers, complete metadata, DOI, ORCID, interoperable formats, and editorial practices compatible with indexing systems, academic repositories, and open access platforms.

For further information on digital preservation mechanisms, editorial metadata, persistent identifiers, interoperability, and content retrieval, please consult the specific page: https://esferapublica.mx/index.php/revista/meta.

 

Licence history and editorial strengthening

Since its inception, Esfera Pública. Revista en Gobernanza y Sociedad has maintained a policy of immediate open access to its academic contents. In its first stage, the journal published its contents under a Creative Commons licence with a NonCommercial clause, in accordance with its non-commercial and non-profit editorial model.

Subsequently, as part of its process of editorial strengthening, internationalisation, interoperability, and broader circulation of knowledge, the journal transitioned to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise expressly indicated. This transition does not modify the non-commercial character of the journal’s editorial model. Rather, it broadens the possibilities for circulation, preservation, international visibility, and scholarly reuse of the published contents.

The coexistence of licences across different issues or articles reflects the journal’s progressive editorial development. In all cases, the licences adopted have been compatible with open access, the public availability of contents, free access for authors and readers, and the broad circulation of scientific knowledge.

 

Institutional commitment

Through this statement, Esfera Pública. Revista en Gobernanza y Sociedad reaffirms its commitment to diamond open access, editorial transparency, equity in scholarly communication, digital preservation, and the public dissemination of knowledge.

The journal eliminates any type of charge for submitters, authors, readers, and institutions, and ensures that its contents are available for consultation, download, and reuse without economic restrictions.

All published contents may be consulted free of charge on the journal’s website: https://esferapublica.mx