About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Revista Direitos Humanos e Democracia is a semiannual publication by the Graduate Program in Law at UNIJUI - Master’s in Human Rights. It aims to serve as a platform for disseminating articles with a critical and interdisciplinary approach to the study of Human Rights.

The journal publishes two issues electronically each year, following a continuous publication model, where articles are made available as soon as they are approved.

Frequency: Semiannual with continuous publication

Publication Mode: Continuous Publication

Year of Establishment: 2013

ISSN: 2317-5389

 

Copyright and Open Access Statement

Authors who publish in Revista Revista Direitos Humanos e Democracia agree to the following terms:

The works published in Revista Direitos Humanos e Democracia follow the license for journals and research in all environments, whether commercial or non-commercial, that make up the international scientific communication system. The journal is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The editorial team authorizes free access and wide distribution of the published content, provided that the source is cited, i.e., credit is given to the authors and Revista Direitos Humanos e Democracia, and the text is preserved in its entirety. Authors are allowed to deposit pre-print and post-print versions in institutional or thematic repositories or on their personal webpage (website, blog), as long as it is open access and without any embargo period.

a) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which allows sharing the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

b) Authors are authorized to enter into separate additional contracts for non-exclusive distribution of the work published in this journal (e.g., publishing in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

c)Authors are permitted and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their personal webpage) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this may lead to productive changes, as well as increase the impact and citation of the published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

 

Archiving Policy
The journal is published/archived in the Open Journal System (OJS), developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), a multi-university initiative that promotes open access and the enhancement of academic publishing. OJS is open-source software for managing and publishing scientific journals.
The content is also preserved by the Brazilian Digital Preservation Services Network (Rede Cariniana), which is part of the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) programme developed by Stanford University Library to ensure digital preservation and content restoration.

LOCKSS is open-source software developed by the Stanford University Library that allows for the preservation of selected online journals by crawling their pages for newly published content and archiving it. Each file is continuously validated against copies from other libraries. If the content is corrupted or lost, the copies are used for restoration.

In addition, institutional archiving is performed with daily backups to ensure data preservation.