• Purpose and Scope

    Rastros Rostros is a biannual scientific journal that publishes original and unpublished articles in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French that present research and theoretical and methodological innovations contributing to the understanding, advancement, and status of Education and Pedagogy. It is aimed at researchers in primary, secondary, and higher education.

    "Trajectory"
    Rastros y Rostros emerged in 1995 as a biannual journal, affiliated with the Faculty of Education of the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. It has spent more than a decade contributing to topics related to Language Education. In 2016, the journal adopted a digital format.
    Open Access Policy
    The journal publishes its content in open access, without any embargo period. Likewise, all published works appear under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), and their use must comply with these licensing conditions. Authors submitting articles for publication must complete the copyright transfer form. This ensures that the text is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) and also authorizes the article to be translated and published in languages deemed appropriate for its visibility and impact. NOTE: The journal changed its CC BY-NC-ND license to a CC BY license in 2020.
    Periodicity
    The journal has an annual frequency and will publish special thematic issues at the initiative of the editor, committee members, or external collaborators, and publication may occur in an extraordinary (additional) issue within the volume.
    OECD Classification
    Main Education Sciences Secondary Education Sciences Discipline General Education (Includes Training, Pedagogy), Special Education (For gifted students and those with learning difficulties).
    Preservation
    Rastros Rostros uses LOCKSS and PKP PN to preserve its digital content. LOCKSS allows local backup copies, and PKP PN provides a stable platform for the management and preservation of content, ensuring long-term accessibility.
    Ethics
    The journal and its editorial team will promote, through their policies and actions, ethics in research processes, the appropriate use of content protected by copyright, and the quality of the works it publishes, ensuring that the different collaborators (editors, authors, and reviewers) interact under principles of academic integrity.
    Plagiarism
    Possible cases of plagiarism are eliminated through the use of the software TURNITIN
    Publication Costs
    The submission of articles and their editing process, if approved, have no cost for authors, as it is fully funded by Ediciones UCC.