The "Universidad y Sociedad" (RUS) Journal in its electronic version, was born on the eve of the XXX Anniversary of the University of Cienfuegos "Carlos Rafael Rodríguez" (2008), with the aim of promoting the exchange in areas of social, humanistic, economic, technical and others sciences with an interdisciplinary character and it is integrated nationally and internationally.
 
To do this, it integrates a community of experts, teachers, researchers and professionals with interests in those profiles. It also develops collaborative spaces in the field of knowledge management and innovation for the development of society through the publication and dissemination of scientific results and the generalization of experiences in academic and research institutions.
 
Since its beginning, it has changed its appearance and technology twice in order to maintain an image and access consistent with the open source that Web 2.0 allows; with an evolution both technical and aesthetic.
 
The Journal dedicates eighty percent (80%), or more of the volume of each edition to the publication of original articles; and the rest to issues related to the dissemination of science and innovation.
 
Among the specific advantages that it has to publish in "Universidad y Sociedad" Journal is, first of all, to be profitable for the author, given its character of open access to scientific literature in Spanish, which promotes the elimination of monopolies and economic, legal and technological restrictions, which involves publishing in editorial houses that work in a traditional format; focusing on the essentials: providing greater accessibility for documents and greater visibility for authors.
 
Secondly, it offers its authors a much more agile evaluation process of their works; that is, the editorial committee that makes up our publication reviews, evaluates and qualifies the works sometimes in a reasonable time, so that the publication process is also expedited, if a work is accepted.
 
Our Editorial Board, of which prestigious academics and researchers are part of the national and international scope, is committed to the agility of this process. Likewise, the doors are opened to new authors who wish to present their research papers to the scientific community and who are not admitted to other journals.
 
It is the responsibility of the management and its editorial board to offer a product of the highest quality. The impact of the publication is based on:
 
• 80% of the total contents are of original scientific or technical interest. 20% of the total of each edition is dedicated to topics related to the dissemination of science and innovation.
 
• Offers detailed instructions to the authors for the presentation of the articles and the elaboration of the references and rigorous peer evaluation.
 
• It has value-added services (alerts, forums, links guides, among others), which will allow permanent contact among the researcher, the reviewers and the Editorial Board about the editing process.
 
• Disseminates the contents in bibliographical databases, journal aggregation portals and international directories, which position the articles in the top positions of searchers such as Google Scholar.
 
The Journal is recognized in the National Registry of Serial Publications (Havana, Cuba), RNSP: 2190, volume 1, folio 196 and it is indexed in international directories, catalogs and databases such as: Latindex, Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Scientific-Electronic Online Library (SciELO) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of the Web of Science.
 
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