Editorial Policies

Editorial Policies

AMIDI.Biblioteca is an open-access digital publishing platform for academic and research books, managed by the Academia Mexicana de Investigación y Docencia en Innovación S.C. (AMIDI) through AMIDI Editorial. Its purpose is to publish, co-edit, preserve, disseminate, and enable interoperability for academic works with editorial quality, institutional traceability, open access, and verifiable metadata.

Editorial Modalities

AMIDI.Biblioteca recognizes the following editorial modalities:

AMIDI Editions: academic works published under the editorial responsibility of AMIDI Editorial, with AMIDI ISBN, academic peer review, open access, digital preservation, editorial metadata, and dissemination through AMIDI.Biblioteca.

AMIDI Co-editions: academic works developed through formal collaboration between AMIDI Editorial and one or more universities, research centers, academic networks, chairs, research groups, academic publishers, or co-publishing institutions, with institutional traceability, academic peer review, open access, digital preservation, editorial metadata, and dissemination through AMIDI.Biblioteca.

Academic Works Associated with an AMIDI Co-edition Process: academic works originally published by universities, research centers, academic publishers, or external institutions, incorporated into AMIDI.Biblioteca through formal authorization for purposes of digital preservation, open access, scholarly dissemination, interoperability, metadata harvesting, and editorial traceability. This modality does not replace the ISBN, peer review, license, ownership, editorial responsibility, or edition of origin. When express authorization exists, the work may be formalized as an AMIDI co-edition and may incorporate the name, imprint, or logo of AMIDI Editorial.

Types of Works Accepted

AMIDI.Biblioteca considers for evaluation and publication academic and research works, such as research books, collective books, methodological works, applied research works, academic proceedings, specialized academic dissemination works, and institutional co-editions.

Works must provide academic, scientific, technological, humanistic, social, methodological, or applied value and must be aligned with the thematic areas and editorial lines of AMIDI.Biblioteca.

Editorial Process

Every submitted work will be reviewed by the editorial team to verify its thematic relevance, academic structure, formal compliance, originality, clarity, editorial quality, legal documentation, license, metadata, and alignment with the policies of AMIDI.Biblioteca.

Works that meet the initial requirements may be sent for academic peer review by external reviewers. Final acceptance will depend on the outcome of the evaluation process, compliance with observations, documentary validation, and the corresponding editorial authorization.

The receipt of a work does not imply a commitment to publish it.

External Academic Peer Review

Academic and research works may be subject to external peer review under a double-blind modality. Reviewers will be selected according to their academic expertise, thematic relevance, institutional independence, and absence of conflicts of interest.

The review may recommend acceptance, acceptance with revisions, request for major revisions, a new round of evaluation, non-acceptance, or editorial rejection. In the event of a significant discrepancy between reviews, AMIDI Editorial may request a third external evaluation.

Originality and Anti-Plagiarism

Every submitted work must be original, properly cited, and respectful of copyright, image rights, intellectual property rights, confidentiality, privacy, personal data protection, and third-party rights.

AMIDI.Biblioteca may verify the originality of works through anti-plagiarism software, including iThenticate, as well as through editorial review and analysis of similarity, citations, references, and sources.

Works involving plagiarism, undeclared self-plagiarism, editorial duplication, fabrication or falsification of data, manipulation of results, unauthorized use of third-party materials, or misappropriation of ideas, texts, images, tables, figures, instruments, or data will not be accepted.

As part of the editorial process, authors, coordinators, academic editors, or authorized representatives must sign the Letter of Originality Declaration, Authorization for Publication, Co-edition or Editorial Incorporation, and License of Use.

Open Access and Licenses

AMIDI.Biblioteca provides immediate open access to its works for reading, consultation, and download, without payment, subscription, or registration by readers.

Unless otherwise stated, works published, co-edited, or incorporated into AMIDI.Biblioteca are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Authors retain their moral rights and grant AMIDI Editorial a non-exclusive authorization to publish, co-edit, preserve, disseminate, publicly communicate, describe through metadata, and enable open-access interoperability for the work.

Author Responsibility

Authors, coordinators, academic editors, or authorized representatives are responsible for the authorship, originality, content, sources, permissions, images, data, opinions, results, and materials included in the work.

When a work has been previously published, this must be declared at the beginning of the editorial process, and the corresponding formal authorization, rights validation, applicable license, information on the previous edition, and justification for its incorporation into AMIDI.Biblioteca must be submitted.

Editorial Ethics

AMIDI.Biblioteca adheres to principles of academic integrity, editorial transparency, confidentiality, impartiality, author responsibility, respect for copyright, and good scholarly publishing practices. Its processes are guided by the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), available at publicationethics.org.

Works that promote hate speech, sexism, racism, discrimination, violence, exclusion, stigmatization, or any practice contrary to academic integrity will not be accepted.

Preservation, Metadata, and Interoperability

AMIDI Editorial may integrate, as applicable, ISBN, Crossref DOI, editorial metadata in OMP, digital preservation, open license, interoperability through OAI-PMH, academic visibility, metadata harvesting, and discoverability in compatible systems.

AMIDI Editorial does not guarantee indexing, automatic inclusion, or permanence in external platforms, databases, catalogues, or harvesters, as these processes depend on the technical and editorial criteria of each external entity.

Corrections, Retractions, and Editorial Measures

When significant errors, plagiarism, duplication, authorship issues, questionable data, undeclared conflicts of interest, misuse of sources, or any situation affecting the integrity of a work are identified, AMIDI Editorial may issue corrections, clarifications, editorial notes, errata, retractions, temporary withdrawal, or permanent withdrawal of the work.

Failure to comply with these policies may result in requests for clarification, corrections, suspension of the editorial process, rejection, withdrawal of the publication, or the adoption of other appropriate editorial measures.