About the Journal

Focus and Scope

El Futuro del Pasado: Revista electrónica de Historia aims to be an open space for dialogue and debate amongst researchers from different areas of knowledge who intend to study the past in its various aspects. It is a tool for research, reporting and criticism, external to any type of ideological or partisan patronage. El Futuro del Pasado. Revista electrónica de Historia was born as a place for History to be subjected to examination, no matter the shape, form, space or time.

El Futuro del Pasado. Revista electrónica de Historia is an open access, history journal that follows the peer review process, open and independent, and allows originals in several languages: Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese and French.

Responsible work and freedom of science, criticism and reflection, communication and collaboration. This are the principles that El Futuro del Pasado. Revista electrónica de Historia abides by.

El Futuro del Pasado. Revista electrónica de Historia publishes one (1) volume per year.

Peer review process

The editors and the Editorial Council of El Futuro del Pasado. Revista electrónica de Historia will review the studies, essays and researches and will submit them to external evaluation.

The review and evaluation of the works will follow the peer review or double blind process. Two experts on the field, external to the Editorial Council, will revise each study, essay or research and will issue a report based on scientific quality criteria. If there were any disagreements, it will be submitted to a third person, who will settle the conflict.

All studies, researches and essays sent for evaluation whose authorship belongs to a member of the Editorial Team, whatever their job, will be evaluated by four experts on the subject, external to the Editorial Council, always keeping the anonymity of authors and informants. It is mandatory that at least three of the reports are positive.

Those who wish to stand for external revisers may do so in the proper section of the web page. They must check the “Reviser” box at the time of registration or send an e-mail to the journal (elfuturodelpasado@usal.es).

By accepting, assessors abide by the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.
The external revisers will receive a certificate at the end of their job, as long as they have followed the rules and requirements and the report has been properly submitted in time.
The revisers will not receive any financial compensation for the evaluated articles.

The decision of whether the articles have been accepted, rejected or any modifications have been proposed will be made by the journal’s direction and will be based on external assessors’ reports. It will be announced to the authors within 180 days. In the case that the study, research or essay is conditioned to some modifications, the authors will be required to add said suggestions by the external assessors to the original text. Once the changes have been made, the authors will send back the article to the journal, which will be revised by the Editorial Council.

Accepted articles will be identified by a DOI code and will appear on the first issues with pages available. Editors retain the copyright.

All studies, researches and essays accepted will be revised by proofreaders, who will make any opportune observations.

The proofreading will be carried out by the authors themselves within the deadline chosen by the Editorial Council. If the authors go past their deadline, the Publishers will execute said duty, using the original texts as guide.

Authors that request a certificate for the acceptance of the publishing of their articles will receive said document signed by the journal’s Publisher by e-mail. It will be provisional until the article is definitely published.

El Futuro del Pasado. Revista electrónica de Historia is not responsible for the ideas and opinions of the authors, the spelling or any formalities of the text. However, a rigorous, precise and correct language is always required.

Frequency of publication

El Futuro del Pasado has a periodicity of one (1) issue per year.

Open access policy

The contents of El Futuro del Pasado are freely and immediately accessible, based on the principle that the free availability of scientific research results allows for a wider exchange of knowledge.

No article submission or open access publication (APC) fees

There are no fees for submitting, editing or publishing articles in open access (APC).

Sections of the journal

El Futuro del Pasado, is divided into several sections:

Monograph: which focuses on a monographic subject
Studies: original articles.

Committed to the research of new authors, and those coming from developing countries

El Futuro del Pasado supports research by authors or research teams from developing countries, especially Latin American, whose texts are presented in scientific languages, preferably in Spanish or English.

We also show our compromise with first-time authors from all over the world who send in articles in the aforementioned languages.

Permission for self-archiving and digital preservation

Authors are authorized to publish their work on the Internet (e.g. in institutional repositories or personal web pages) always after editing (in no case before revision, layout or even at the proofreading stage). These measures are taken in order to encourage reading and citation of the article as well as to achieve a wider and faster dissemination of the published work (see ) The Effect of Open Access.

El Futuro del Pasado is kept in the two main repositories of the University of Salamanca:

"eUSAL Revistas"
“Gredos”

It is also kept in LOCKSS.

Dissemination in databases

The journal undertakes to provide XML metadata or in other specific formats, immediately after its publication in "eUSAL Revistas" and within three months, in order to promote its dissemination in databases (Proquest, Ebsco, Elsevier, DOAJ, CrossRef/DOI).

Download statistics

Authors whose articles have been published since October 2020 can see the download statistics in the article file. Those published before that date must be requested at the Editorial Secretary.

Golden road to Open Access (CA / OA) on PDF

Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca has been following the golden road of Open Knowledge (CA/ OA) since 2011. The full text of the journal EL Futuro del Pasado can be downloaded in PDF format, in compliance with Law 14/2011, of June 1st, on Science, Technology and Innovation.

Subject

Original research papers on history are accepted.

BIC subjects: HB – HISTORIA
IBIC subjects: HB – HISTORY
BISAC subjects: HIS000000 – HISTORY / General

Languages

All submitted articles will be published in Spanish and English, but other languages may be exceptionally accepted.

Identification of texts

Texts must always be identified with the following data:

Title, abstract and keywords (+intro) in Spanish.
Title, abstract and keywords (+intro) in English.
Title, abstract and keywords (+intro) in the language the text will be published.

Authority control

For their affiliation data, authors must specify:

Name: Lower case (complete)
Surnames: Lower case
E-mail address
ORCID: previously registered in ORCID (http://orcid.org/)
Higher institution of work: University
Country

Publication and editing ethics

When submitting their articles to El Futuro del Pasado, authors willingly accept the Good Practice Guide established by the publisher, following the national agreements taken in the COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the International Standards for editors and authors published by the Committee on Publication Ethics.

Wager E & Kleinert S (2011) Responsible research publication position statements. Chapter 49 in: Mayer T & Steneck N (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (pp 305-7). (ISBN 978-981-4340-97-7).
Kleinert S & Wager E (2011) Responsible research publication: international standards for editors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. Chapter 51 in: Mayer T & Steneck N (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (pp 317-28). (ISBN 978-981-4340-97-7).
Wager E & Kleinert S (2011) Responsible research publication: international standards for authors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. Chapter 50 in: Mayer T & Steneck N (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (pp 309-16). (ISBN 978-981-4340-97-7).

El Futuro del Pasado. Revista electrónica de Historia uses the «Turnitin Ephorus» software to screen manuscripts for unoriginal material. By submitting your manuscript to El Futuro del Pasado. Revista electrónica de Historia you agree to have your work analyzed with software during the peer evaluation and editing processes. Please note that any author who fails to adhere to the conditions above will have their manuscripts rejected.

Good editorial practices on gender equality

El Futuro del Pasado adopts the following commitments in order to abide by good editorial practices in terms of gender equality:

Its commitment to achieving parity in the various boards of the journal, as well as in the authorship of the external reports.
The inclusion of the full name (not only the initials) of the authors of the published works.
Adherence to the United Nations objective of "speaking and writing in a way that does not discriminate against a particular sex, social gender or gender identity, and does not perpetuate gender stereotypes” (https://www.un.org/en/gender-inclusive-language/index.shtml).

El Futuro del Pasado recommends the authors to inform whether the original data of their research takes gender into account, in order to identify any possible differences

cc by-nc-sa

Authors publishing in El Futuro del Pasado accept the following conditions:

Authors assign to Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca the right of publication, under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

This license allows third parties to distribute, copy and display the article. No commercial profit may be made. The new creations must acknowledge their authorship, may not be used commercially and must be under an equivalent license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en

DORA

El Futuro del Pasado supports the "Declaration of San Francisco on evaluation of research" - DORA.

Registration of the funding source of published articles

Any funding agency(s) external to the University must be indicated, as well as the reference(s) of the project(s) in the framework of which the research that has given rise to the publication of the article has been carried out. This information should be referenced by the authors in the acknowledgments of the article. The author in charge of submitting the article to “eUSAL Revistas” must include this metadata at the time of the submit in the corresponding section.

Use of interoperability protocols

The OAI-PMH protocol is used with the path https://revistas.usal.es/uno/index.php/1989-9289/oai/

Listing data

Title: El Futuro del Pasado
ISSN (on-line): 1989-9289
Periodicity: One volume per year
Date of publishing: 2010
Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
Place of editing: Salamanca, Spain
UNESCO classification: History – 550000
Nature of the publication: Scientific investigation
License: Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – Sharealike (CC-BY-NC-SA), since 2023 (formerly CC BY-NC-ND)