ISSN 2665-0398
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The scientific research journal Aula Virtual identified with ISSN: 2665-0398 and Legal Deposit: LA2020000026, founded in January 2020, is an electronic publication attached to the Fundación Aula Virtual identified with RIF J404020829 and fiscal address at Av Libertador, Res. Arca del Norte, No. 52D, Barquisimeto, Lara State, Venezuela, Postal Code 3001.

The Aula Virtual Journal is aimed at disseminating research products created by researchers in various fields of knowledge.

The thematic coverage includes Technology, Health Sciences, Administrative Sciences, Social Sciences, Legal and Political Sciences, Exact Sciences, and other related areas.

Our audience consists of teachers, researchers, independent producers, students, and professionals from different thematic areas, both nationally and internationally.

 Publication from issue 12 of 2024 is CONTINUOUS (Current); from issue 1 of 2020 to issue 11 of 2024 it was semiannual (Past), publishing two issues per year and peer-reviewed by specialists in the field, under the double-blind modality.

Original and unpublished works are accepted that have not been simultaneously submitted for evaluation in other journals or editorial bodies. Original products may be:

• Scientific Articles, in various qualitative and quantitative approaches resulting from research or free topics that respond to the journal's lines of interest.
• Research Advances, which include substantive theoretical, epistemological, and/or methodological developments.
• Essays, developed by the Author under a discourse presenting their own point of view, offering a personal interpretation of the topic, maintaining a critical attitude towards the object of study.
• Book Reviews, mainly critical evaluations of literature published through books or research reports in various thematic areas.
• Papers or publications derived from events, published as full or partial contributions from conferences, conventions, seminars, workshops, scientific events, etc.
• Any other type of research aimed at the treatment and deepening of information in the fields of study of different sciences.

 The Aula Virtual Journal is completely free, available in different formats (PDF, EPUB, HTML) facilitating content visibility, and is indexed in numerous national and international databases and indexes. See image Indexed Journal at www.aulavirtual.web.ve/revista/ojs

The Aula Virtual Journal seeks to promote the dissemination of global knowledge, spreading products in the global research and scientific field.

The Aula Virtual Journal uses the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) communication protocol, allowing the transfer of digital resources. The URL for harvesting is https://aulavirtual.web.ve/revista/ojs/index.php/aulavirtual/oai, which can be verified and validated at https://validator.oaipmh.com/.

International Identifiers and Registries

ISSN (International Standard Serial Number). Paris, France.

ROAD (Directory of Open Access Resources).

Our authors maintain registration with ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identification).

RINGGOLD is a unique persistent numeric identifier for organizations in the publishing industry supply chain.

ISNI is the global standard number certified by ISO to identify millions of contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution.

Impact Indexes and Rankings

The Scientific Electronic Library Online - SciELO is an electronic library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals.

LATINDEX (Regional Online Information System for Scientific Journals of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal). Directory. National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

AmeliCA/Redalyc, promoted by UNESCO and led by CLACSO. Mexico.

CLASE (bibliographic database of social sciences and humanities journals). UNAM, Mexico City.

REDIB (Ibero-American Network for Innovation and Scientific Knowledge), managed by CSIC and Universia. Spain.

MIAR (Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals). University of Barcelona, Spain.

Specialized Repositories

PKP (Index, Public Knowledge Project). Simon Fraser University Library, Canada.

Permanent Unique Identifier DOI

zenodo.org. An open access repository developed under the European OpenAIRE program and operated by CERN. Allows researchers to deposit research articles, datasets, software, reports, and any other digital research artifact. Each submission receives a persistent digital object identifier (DOI), making stored items easily citable.

Academic Search Engines

Dialnet Portal for the dissemination of Hispanic scientific production. University of Rioja, Spain.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine). University of Bielefeld Library, Germany.

Google Scholar (International Index). USA.

DARDO. System for publishing calls for papers (CFP) for open access scientific journals. Colombia.

REVENCYT. Index of Venezuelan Journals of Science and Technology.

CORE provides access to the world's largest collection of open access research papers, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals.

KindCongress is a free global service to improve the quality of international conferences and expand the culture of science.

Scientific Networks

LatinREV (Latin American Network of Academic Journals in Social Sciences and Humanities). FLACSO, Argentina.

RedDOLAC (Network of Teachers of Latin America and the Caribbean). Peru.

Indexes for Visibility and Indexing of Academic Journals

OpenAIRE. (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe). European Union.

ResearchBib. (Academic Resource Index). USA.

SCOPE DATABASE. Journal indexing and citation analysis, India.

Indexes and Databases Supporting Research

AURA. List of scientific journals regarding open policies and publication rights. Part of AmeliCA. Mexico.

EuroPub. Directory of Academic and Scientific Journals. London, UK.

LATINOAMERICANA. Association of Academic Journals in Humanities and Social Sciences. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. Sponsored by Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile.

Analysis Tools

ReviewerCredits. Innovative and independent platform supporting peer review validation and certification. Milan, Italy.

Libraries for Academic Journals

National Library of Venezuela. (Library Network). Venezuela.

BiBLAT. Latin American Library. UNAM.

SERIUNAM Library and Information System of UNAM.

(REBIUN) Network of Spanish University and Scientific Libraries Associated with CRUE I+D+i since 2020. Previously an independent network (1990-1998) and a CRUE Sectorial Commission (1998-2019). Spain.

EZB. The Electronic Journals Library is a service to facilitate the use of academic journals online. It offers a fast, structured, unified interface for accessing full-text articles online.

ZDB contains titles of journals, newspapers, databases, yearbooks, etc., everything published periodically in print or electronic format and available in institutions in Germany and Austria. At the European level, access to digitized newspapers is constantly expanded.

Harvard University library network. USA.

Repository of the University of California Library, USA.

Stanford University Library, USA.

Unified digital repository and library of the "Dar Al Kutub" Library Management Department development plan, Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi.

Metadata Harvesting Protocol

OAI. (Open Archives Initiative Organization) Openarchives.org. USA. Validation.

The Aula Virtual Journal is open access, based on the principle of freely providing research and knowledge exchange, adhering to various institutions that promote free access to knowledge and the principles of communication infrastructure for academic publishing and open science, such as AmeliCA.

The intellectual property of accepted works belongs to their authors; however, access to them is completely open and free. The following aspects must be met under the Creative Commons License CC BY NC ND.

• Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• Non-Commercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
• No Derivatives: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
• No additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.