About the Journal

Theme and SCOPE

Bold is an annual and mediated journal, with national and international scope, edited by the Department of Visual Communication Design of the Faculty of Arts (FDA), National University of La Plata (UNLP).

Its object is the publication of original and unpublished texts about the role designers in Argentina play and the relationship between design and education. Bold publishes articles, essays and projects of final works of the students of the Department of Visual Communication Design of the FDA (section «Class projects»).

The journal is addressed to professionals, researchers, professors, fellows and postgraduate students, and is edited in Spanish and English, as long as this is the author’s mother tongue.

Bold was first released on paper in 2013 and since 2019 it has been released digitally only.

The journal supports the open access to knowledge as public property, that is why its readers are provided with immediate and complete access to all its content and its editions are free of charge for both authors and readers. It also allows and encourages the simultaneous publication in self archive systems or institutional repositories.

The journal reserves the right to accept or reject the contributions received, in accordance with its thematic scope and the compliance of its editorial requirements.

The authors of the articles are fully liable for the opinions they express.

Section policies

Editorial

Open submissions

Indizado

Evaluado por pares

Artículos

Open submissions

Indexed

Peer reviewed

Opinión

Open submissions

Indexed

Peer reviewed

Trabajos de cátedras

Open submissions

Indexed

Peer reviewed pares

Publication frecuency

Bold is a peer-reviewed scientific journal released anually.

Its editions are published in the first week of October for the period November-October.

The invitation for the presentation of articles is open from February to April every year.

Peer Review Process

The contributions received by the magazine are analyzed by the editorial group in order to ensure that they comply with the scope declared by the publication and its editorial requirements.
Those contributions that do not comply with these criteria will be rejected or, when the editor in charge considers it appropriate, returned to their authors to be adjusted.
The articles sent to sections under arbitration are forwarded to two specialists in the subject for revision (none of them belong to the editorial group).
For the evaluation of the contributions received, the magazine uses the double-blind peer review process.
The revision is done by the evaluators within 30 days, approximately (this period might be longer depending on the result of the first revision).
As a result of this process, the articles may be accepted, accepted with modifications or rejected, based on appropriate arguments.
When the evaluators indicate the need to make changes to the articles for their eventual publication, these will be informed to the authors who will have to commit to make these modifications and send the new version within a period no longer than 30 days.*
If the reports made by the evaluators differ in essential aspects, the works will be sent to a third evaluator.
If necessary, the direction of the magazine will mediate to reach a final decision.
Once the work has been accepted, the authors will be informed of the issue in which it will be published.

*In these cases, the acceptance date will be set considering the date of the approval of the latest version.

Indexing and inclusion

Bold includes the following indexes, bases and catalogues:

LATINDEX Catálogo 2.0 - Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal (México)

DIALNET - Portal bibliográfico de la Universidad de La Rioja (España)

EZB - Electronic Journals Library of University of Regensburg (Alemania)

LatAm - Estudios latinoamericanos (México)

LatinREV - Red Latinoamericana de Revistas Académicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (FLACSO Argentina)

BINPAR - Bibliografía Nacional de Publicaciones Periódicas Registradas (Caicyt-Conicet)

Open Access Policy

This magazine offers open and immediate access to all its content. Its issues have no cost neither for the author nor for the reader, since it is believed that scientific and academic unrestricted publications contribute to a greater exchange of global knowledge.

Archiving and self-archiving policies

Archiving:the journal uses the LOCKSS system through PKP PN to create an archive distributed among participating libraries, thus allowing those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes. Self-archiving: Boldallows the self-archiving of the post-print version (publisher’s version), both in author’s or authors’ personal websites and in institutional and thematic repositories.

Preservation policies

The material published in this magazine is included in SEDICI, the archive of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Automatic backups and remote backups, format adaptation, integrity verification and other required activities to ensure the digital preservation are done through this archive. Preservation policies of SEDICI can be checked on http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/pages/politicas#preservacion.

INTEROPERABILITY protocol

All the journals edited by the imprint Papel Cosido of the Facultad de Artes (UNLP) [Arts School (UNLP)] incorporate interoperability protocols that allow their contents to be gathered by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters.
The journal Bold incorporates the interoperability protocol OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) in the URL http://papelcosido.fba.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/bold/oai with the possibility of obtaining different formats for metadata (rfc1807, nlm, marcxml, oai_marc and oai_dc) when adding in the URL the corresponding acronym as a value for the metadataPrefix parameter.

Since November, 2018, Bold adheres to the Declaration of Mexico in favor of the Latin American non-commercial open access ecosystem, which recommends the use of the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial –ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) to ensure the protection of regional academic and scientific production in open access.

Code of Ethics and Good Editorial Practices

The Director and the Editorial Team of Bold agree to practise and ensure an ethical behavior during the entire process of edition. The main points of the ethical commitment by Bold, which follow from the «Code of Ethics and Good Practices» published by the Commitee on Publication Ethics (COPE), are detailed below.

Editing entity

√ It agrees to protect the intellectual property of the publication and copyrights.
√ It will guarantee an objective, fair and deep revision of the texts from peer evaluation.
√ It agrees to deal with complaints or misunderstandings related to ethics or to conflicts of interests and to continue with the appropriate procedures to solve them, according to the regulations enforced by the Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

Directors

√ They agree to constantly improve the publication; guarantee the quality of the material; defend the freedom of expression; prevent that commercial interests jeopardize moral laws; be willing to publish errata sheets, clarifications, retractions or apologies.
√ They will promote the opinion of authors, readers, copy-editors and members of the committees about how to improve the processes of the magazine.
√ They will accept or reject an article according the importance, originality, clarity of the text and theme of the magazine.
√ They will publish rules/ regulations/ guidelines for the authors regarding everything is expected from them and the copy-editors. Such guidelines will be updated on a regular basis.
√ They will guarantee that the identity of the copy-editors and authors is protected.
√ They will provide the members of the editorial board with everything is expected from them.

Editors

√ They will fulfill their editorial duties in an objective, fair and balanced manner.
√ They will adjust the necessary measures to prevent fraudulent publications.
√ They will keep authors and coy-editors anonymously during the revision of the texts to preserve the intellectual integrity throughout the entire process.
√ They agree to meet deadlines for revisions and the publications of the texts.

Copy-editors

√ They agree to make an honest, critical and objective revision.
√ They will evaluate the works as soon as possible to meet deadlines.
√ They will hand in a report in which they will detail the observations on the points of the article to evaluate that the Direction of the magazine has requested.
√ In no case will they keep or copy the work.

Authors

√ They agree not to send the article to any other magazine and will guarantee that the work is original and unpublished.
√ They will be responsible of the opinions, statements or conclusions mentioned in their articles.
√ They agree to use images whose rights have been transferred or whose authors have given permission for their publication. They will mention the author if the image (whether it is a person, a group, an institution or a means).
√ If archive material is used (letters, images, etcetera) the author agrees to mention the original information of the work and the place where it is archived or exhibited.
√ They agree to make the changes or corrections requested by the copy-editors.

Policy Against Plagiarism

Bold operates a policy against plagiarism oriented to guarantee that all the published works are original and unpublished.

In the face of the limitations that the programmes of automatic plagiarism detection present with the Spanish language, and with the objective of giving an answer to broader aspects that fall within plagiarism practices, the magazine implements the following procedure for each manuscript received:

• When applying the article, the authors are requested to declare that the article has not been previously published or sent to other journals for evaluation and that they have followed the Guidelines for Authors, in which It is stated that the postulated articles must be original.

• Upon receiving the article, the editor will use Internet search tools with the purpose of verifying and comparing data, results and aspects in the writing of works by the same author or different authors to ensure the originality and avoid plagiarism.

• When submitting the article for evaluation, the reviewers will be requested to use their knowledge about the sources and literature on the subject to inform about possible indicators of plagiarism with papers previously published in other sources.

If plagiarism practice is proven, Bold follows the guidelines provided by COPE
The magazine considers the following practices plagiarism:

Direct plagiarism

- Minimal changes are made and an outside text is presented as its own.
- The authorship of fragments (sentences or paragraphs) corresponding to foreign texts is omitted (whether they are reproduced in textual form and no quotes are placed as if they are presented by paraphrase).

Plagiarism in direct quotes

- No quotes are used to indicate the fragments (sentences or paragraphs) that are reproduced in a textual way.
- Only a part of the fragment (sentences or paragraphs) that is reproduced literally is indicated with quotation marks (it is omitted that the phrases before and/or after the passage between quotation marks also correspond to the quoted text).

Plagiarism in paraphrases

- The changes made do not substantially modify the wording of the original fragment (sentences or paragraphs), so they do not constitute paraphrases.
- The paraphrase is extensive and the paraphrased passages are not clearly differentiated from the passages themselves.
- The paraphrase is continuous and there are no added materials, own ideas or critical reflections that allow the interaction or that enrich the information available in other works already published.

It is not considered plagiarism when:

- The passages that are reproduced do not dominate over the original contributions of the writer.
- The incorporation of foreign passages is used to allow the author to interact critically with the views of another person.
- The argument of the original text retains its meaning but has been rewritten with words or with different characteristics.

Autoplagiarism or recycling fraud

- Minimal changes are made to your own text and presented as if it were a different work.
- The indication that it is a previously published work that has been recycled with corrections or with new additions is omitted.

It is not considered autoplagiarism when:

- The previous work is the basis for a new contribution and key parts must be repeated to explain and defend the new arguments.
- The author considers that what has been developed in previous works cannot be presented in a better way for the new publication. - Repeated passages do not exceed 30% of the original work.