About the Journal
Basic Information
Transinformação (e-ISSN 2318-0889) is a specialized journal, edited by the Library Science College, Center of Social and Applied Human Sciences from the Catholic University of Campinas. Founded in 1989, the journal has adopted the continuous publication modality since 2019, focusing on articles that contribute to the study and development of Information Science, Library Science, Archivology, Museology, and related areas, being open to contributions from the national and international scientific community.
Transinformação is adept at Open Access and all its content is available and protected under the Creative Commons license (CC-BY). In addition, it does not charge fees for the submission, evaluation, or publication of articles.
Copyright and use license
In all articles published by Transinformação, copyright is held by the authors. The articles are protected under an open access Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, which means anyone can download and read the article at no cost. Furthermore, the article can be reused and cited as long as the original published version is mentioned. These conditions allow maximum use and exposure of the study while ensuring that authors receive due credit.
Sponsors
The publication of the journal is financed with resources from:
- Catholic University of Campinas;
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development).
Instructions to authors
Scope and policy
TransInformação publishes articles that contribute to the study and development of Information Science, Library Science, Archivology, Museology, and related areas in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
In line with the Open Science movement, the publication supports the use of preprint servers and accepts manuscripts previously deposited on trusted servers such as SciELO Preprints: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/user/register
The Journal supports the use of repositories for deposits aimed at the preservation, dissemination, and reuse of data such as SciELO Data: https://data.scielo.org/.
The submitted manuscript must follow the model article made available by the journal, as well as indicate the category and area to which it belongs, as follows:
Original: investigations based on empirical data using scientific methodologies aimed at disseminating unpublished results. Consists of distinct sections: introduction, method, results, discussion, and conclusion (Maximum limit of 5,000 words, they must be prepared in 1.5 line spacing, Arial font size 11, and A4 size sheet).
Review (by invitation): critical synthesis of the topic of interest in the area, through the analysis and interpretation of the relevant bibliography, which contains a critical and comparative analysis of works in the area that discusses methodological scopes and limits. And, with that, they allow indicating perspectives of continuity of studies in that line of research. (Maximum limit of 6 thousand words, they must be prepared in 1.5 line spacing, Arial font size 11, and A4 size sheet).
Essay (by invitation): reflection on a topic that gives rise to future research (Maximum limit of 5 thousand words, they must be prepared in 1.5 line spacing, Arial font size 11, and A4 size sheet).
Communication: report of experience or academic research through work with an individual, group, community, or organization, which the dissemination can contribute to a better understanding of available information resources and to the solution of technical problems in the sector (Maximum limit of 5 thousand words, they must be prepared in 1.5 line spacing, Arial font size 11, and A4 size sheet).
Thematic section (by invitation): section intended for the publication of coordinated articles, by different authors, who debate a topic of current interest. (Maximum of 5 thousand words in total, prepared in 1.5 line spacing, Arial font size 11, and A4 size sheet).
Privacy Policy
The names and addresses provided in this magazine will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.
Ethics Committee Assessment
Manuscripts with research related to human beings must be accompanied by a copy of the approval of the assessment of a Research Ethics Committee, having met the Resolution No. 510, of April 7, 2016, which lays out the rules applicable to research in Human and Social Sciences.
Conflict of interest
Authors: Authors must explicitly and individually declare any potential financial, direct and/or indirect, conflict of interest as well as non-financial, etc., as well as any conflict of interest with ad hoc proofreaders.
Ad hoc proofreaders: If a conflict of interest is identified by the proofreaders, the Editorial Committee will forward the manuscript to another ad hoc proofreader.
Plagiarism
The Journal will check the submitted articles, through a plagiarism detection tool called CrossCheck, after the peer-review process.
Disclosure
This publication disseminates its articles on Twitter and on the SciELO blog, in perspective, and encourages authors to disseminate the articles on their personal and institutional social networks.
Twitter - https:/twitter.com/transinformacao
Authorship
The journal is limited to publishing articles that have a maximum of six authorship indications below the title. Authorship credit should be based on substantial contributions, such as (a) conception and design, (b) analysis and interpretation, and (c) review and approval of the final version of the article. The inclusion of names of authors whose contribution does not fit the above criteria is not justified.
The authors' contribution must be informed in plain text of up to four lines.
The institutional link must be informed in up to three levels (ex: University, College, Program, Center, School, Department). The indication of the corresponding author must be based on the highest title degree, and all authors must have and inform the ORCID® registration number. Registration is free, available at: https://orcid.org/.
The journal strongly recommends that all authors and co-authors have their curriculum vitae updated on the Lattes Platform for article submission.
Important: no inclusions or exclusions of authors will be accepted after submission.
Transinformação does not publish more than 1 (one) article by the same author in the same year (volume) to avoid endogeny. This procedure aims to increase the number of themes and collaborations from national and international authors.
Evaluation process
The manuscript processing will only begin if they are in accordance with the instructions given to the Authors. Otherwise, they will be returned for compliance with the rules, the inclusion of a letter, or other documents that may be necessary.
Transinformação does not evaluate works that have been sent to other journals, previously presented at events (national and international), and/or translated into other languages in order to preserve the original character of the work.
Authors must indicate three possible proofreaders for the manuscript with their respective e-mails and the institutions to which they are linked. Optionally, they can nominate three proofreaders to whom they would not like the paper sent.
Appreciation by the editorial board
The evaluation is carried out by the Scientific Editors based on originality, relevance, academic quality, and relevance of the manuscript to the area of Information Science, Library Science, Archivology, Museology, and related areas.
If approved at this stage, the manuscripts will be forwarded to ad hoc proofreaders selected by the editors. Each manuscript will be sent to three proofreaders of recognized competence in the subject addressed, and one of them can be chosen by the indication of the authors. In case of disagreement, the original will be sent to a fourth proofreader, and so on.
The journal adopts the blind review system in peer review and is confidential as to the identity of authors and proofreaders. Therefore, the publication requests that authorship information be indicated only on the title page, which will be removed for evaluation.
Documents created in Microsoft Word must have the author identification removed from document properties: From the main menu, click Save As > Tools (or Options on Mac) > Security Options... > Remove Personal Information from File on Save > OK > Save.
Proofreaders’ assessments have three possibilities: a) approval; b) resubmission; c) refusal. In any of these cases, the author will be notified.
The assessments are analyzed by the associate editors, who propose to the Scientific Editor the approval or not of the manuscript. The final decision on the article's opinion (approved or rejected) will rest with the Editor-in-Chief.
Rejected manuscripts, but with the possibility of reformulation, may return as a new work, initiating another evaluation process.
The works that receive suggestions for alterations will be returned to the authors for the necessary corrections, with the assessments issued. They must be returned within a maximum period of 30 (thirty) days, respecting the time zone used by the system (London time, UTC+0).
Approved manuscripts may return to the authors for approval of eventual changes, in the editing and standardization process, according to the style of the Journal.
Data deposit policy
Data are the scientific records that validate research results. Research data varies by knowledge area and covers: written documents, spreadsheets, statistics, lab notebooks, field notebooks, diaries/journals, questionnaires, transcripts, audio files, videos, photographs, methodologies, workflows, partial reports, and other materials prepared and/or collected during the development of the research. Supported by the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable), the Brazilian Journal of Nutrition recommends that research data be deposited in Scielo Data after approval of manuscripts and that the Research Data Deposit Guide be consulted for this purpose.
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Telefone: +55 (19) 3343-6875
E-mail: transinfo@puc-campinas.edu.br
