Open Access Statement

The editorial team of Letras Históricas reaffirms its commitment to the principles of open access, open science, the public circulation of knowledge, and the free dissemination of scientific and humanistic research.

Letras Históricas adopts a diamond, non-commercial, non-profit open access model. All academic contents published by the journal are offered in immediate open access, without embargo periods, economic barriers, subscription requirements, or prior registration for consultation.

The journal does not charge any fees to authors, readers, institutions, or libraries. It does not apply charges for submission, editorial processing, peer review, copyediting, layout, publication, consultation, download, or reading. It does not apply article processing charges (APCs), page charges, color charges, manuscript withdrawal fees, or publication fees.

The editorial funding of Letras Históricas is provided by the Universidad de Guadalajara, through the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades and the Department of History, in accordance with its institutional commitment to research, scientific dissemination, the humanities, open science, and public access to knowledge.

Principles of open access

Letras Históricas adheres to and adopts the following declarations, which have marked significant milestones in the open access movement:

1. Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002). The journal shares the principle that scientific and humanistic knowledge should circulate freely as a public good. In accordance with the Budapest Declaration, Letras Históricas guarantees the open and free availability of the information disseminated on its platform, without economic, legal, or technical barriers preventing its reading, downloading, copying, distribution, 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 academic and social usefulness of research. In this sense, the contents published by Letras Históricas are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0), unless otherwise expressly indicated.
3. Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003). The journal recognizes that open access must be sustained by rigorous, transparent, and academically responsible editorial processes. Open publication of research results does not replace or weaken academic 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 recognizes that the quality, relevance, and impact of research should not be assessed exclusively through aggregate metrics such as journal impact factors. Letras Históricas supports academic evaluation based on the intrinsic quality of contributions, their relevance, methodological rigor, argumentative soundness, and contribution to historical and humanistic knowledge.

Copyright and license

Authors retain copyright and economic rights over their works. By publishing in Letras Históricas, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and a non-exclusive authorization to publish, reproduce, edit, distribute, and publicly communicate their works.

Published contents are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0), unless otherwise expressly indicated. This license 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, any changes made are indicated, and the material is not used for commercial purposes.

The official version of the license may be consulted at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Self-archiving and repositories

Authors may deposit, share, and disseminate the submitted version, the accepted manuscript, and the published version of their articles in institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, national repositories, personal websites, academic networks, curriculum platforms, and other spaces for scientific circulation, without any embargo period.

All deposited versions must acknowledge Letras Históricas as the original place of publication, include the full citation of the work, preserve the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0), and, whenever possible, link to the official version published on the journal’s website.

Preservation, metadata, and interoperability

Letras Históricas preserves its published contents, final files, and editorial metadata through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, as well as through institutional archiving procedures of the Universidad de Guadalajara, the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, and the Department of History.

The journal keeps digital preservation and distributed archiving mechanisms enabled in OJS, including PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), LOCKSS, and CLOCKSS. These mechanisms allow the journal to declare and facilitate preservation processes for published contents through services, publisher manifests, and networks aimed at safeguarding academic journals in digital environments.

The PKP PN module is part of the preservation tools available for journals managed in OJS and allows published contents to be prepared for preservation in accordance with the technical criteria established by PKP. Likewise, enabling LOCKSS and CLOCKSS allows the journal to provide publisher manifests aimed at the storage, distribution, and preservation of its contents in participating networks and libraries.

In addition, the journal preserves final publication files, PDF versions, editorial metadata, dates of receipt and acceptance, authorship data, institutional affiliations, abstracts, keywords, bibliographic references, usage licenses, and other information necessary for the identification, retrieval, citation, indexing, and preservation of its contents.

Letras Históricas promotes the use of complete metadata, persistent identifiers, visible editorial dates, clear licenses, interoperable files, and editorial practices compatible with indexing systems, academic repositories, specialized catalogues, databases, and open access platforms.

Institutional commitment

With this statement, Letras Históricas reaffirms its commitment to diamond, non-commercial, non-profit open access, editorial transparency, equity in scholarly communication, digital preservation, and the public dissemination of historical and humanistic knowledge.

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

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