Copyright Policy

Authors who publish in Ciencia e Ingeniería declare that they are the exclusive holders of the moral and economic rights over the submitted manuscripts and are responsible for their originality, unpublished status, and content. They also declare that the rights over the manuscript are free from embargoes, liens, limitations, conditions, or any other circumstance that may affect their free disposition.

By accepting publication, the authors authorize Ciencia e Ingeniería, a journal of Universidad de La Guajira, to carry out copyediting, editing, publication, public communication, distribution, preservation, indexing, dissemination, and making available of the article on open access platforms, repositories, indexes, databases, and academic information systems.

Authors retain at all times the moral and economic rights over their works. This authorization for publication does not imply the transfer of copyright to the journal or to Universidad de La Guajira, but rather the granting of the publication rights necessary for the editing, dissemination, preservation, and scholarly circulation of the article.

Neither the authors nor Ciencia e Ingeniería will receive royalties for the reproduction, distribution, adaptation, or reuse of the material published under this license. Any form of circulation, citation, reuse, or dissemination of the article must respect the identification of the authors, the original source of publication, and the conditions established by the applicable license.

Moral rights: authors.

Economic rights: authors.

Publication rights: Ciencia e Ingeniería, Universidad de La Guajira.

Recognition of authorship: always mandatory in favor of each of the authors.

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, CC BY 4.0.

On Possible Updates to This Policy

The journal may review and update this policy whenever necessary, within the framework of a continuous improvement process aimed at harmonizing editorial best practices with the journal’s own institutional, academic, and disciplinary context. At all times, it will keep the current information on copyright, publication rights, and licensing publicly, clearly, and easily accessible. Each update must record the previous policy and its corresponding period of validity, in order to ensure the historical traceability of the editorial conditions applied.