2014 - Declaration for an open academic publication network (RPA – Red de Publicaciones Académicas Abiertas) - A.A.V.V.

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Declaration for an open academic publication network (RPA – Red de Publicaciones Académicas Abiertas) The RPA connects a set of digital journals, which without desiring to lose their individual independence and editorial goals, join to form a meeting place for thought and collaboration with those who wish to join it. In the saturated market of journals on thought, the network seeks to create its own niche from which to extend a free, open, independent publication culture interested in ideas, and active in the diffusion of innovative, heterodox, and diversified ideas.

Our founding charter includes the following goals and aspirations:

- Collaborate in the creation and maintenance of a professional, academic network connecting publishers, scholars and authors for the purpose of shared diffusion of knowledge and social action.

- Understand and assume heterodoxy in its various manifestations as an alternative to the dominant paradigms. It is not a matter of rejecting the dominant paradigms in themselves, although it is implicit an in-depth critique, but the dogmatic nature they assume when they are so widespread that they become a reference for setting the standard for what must be, thereby inhibiting choices for criticism and possibilities for suggesting alternative ways of being in scholarship, knowledge and common social practice.

- Channel concerns, action, thought and the products of thought which lack their own space for diffusion or either conflict with or do not fit in with the editorial dictates of the journals that form the “impact market”. Indexing is alright as an option for visibility, but not as a way of weighting the value of their ideas according to bibliometric criteria based exclusively on a quantitative analysis and not on an analysis of their content.

- Exclusive publication in open access systems, ensuring free access by researchers and those interested in the products of thought and human action.

- Application of a principle of diversity in published material, including, if so desired, academic products as well as other relevant records of social action fostering reflection presented in formats and ways other than the conventional structures of scientific narrative (like image and sound files, performance records, dynamic dialogue modes, e.g., tweets, posts, blogs, etc., essays, biographical notes and other literary genres).

- Search for quality in published material as tested by assurance systems that do not restrict free expression of thought or impose predetermined values on thought structures and systems. Conscientious editorial review, consultation with experts or peer review may be methods of ensuring quality, as long as they maintain a decisive commitment to promotion of free thought. Freedom to judge, but within a guarantee system intended to ensure quality without leaving the author, as the weakest piece in the market of intellectual production, unprotected: When in doubt, the author should decide.

RPA Members

Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales

Aposta Digital. Revista de Ciencias Sociales

URBS. Revista de Estudios Urbanos y Ciencias Sociales

blogURBS. Blog de Estudios Urbanos y Ciencias Sociales

Imagonautas. Revista Interdisciplinaria sobre Imaginarios Sociales

Sociología y Tecnociencia. Revista Digital de Sociología del Sistema Tecnocientífico

Annual Review of Critical Psychology

Disability and the Global South

Athenea Digital. Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social

Redes.com. Revista de Estudios para el Desarrollo Social de la Comunicación

Papeles del CEIC

Virtualis

The AAAA Magazine

Lengcom

Encrucijadas. Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales

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