Editorial

Abstract

This year 2020 has marked a before and after in the thinking of those of us who are dedicated to the management of scientific publications. The state of alarm that has arisen after the emergence of Covid 19 in the world has generated volatile research in all disciplines and areas of knowledge, thereby driving almost immediate publication; and science and technology have had an exceptional year in intellectual and scientific production compared to other sectors of society.

This has prompted us to open the frontiers of knowledge, to innovate in models of scientific communication so that all the flow of knowledge generated is available without restrictions, as is highlighted within open access policies. The central principle is that "knowledge is a common good and its access a human right" (Declaration of Mexico, 2020) in Aguado López and Becerril-García (2020).

In this same sense the Latin American Council for Social Sciences; CLACSO Group (2020) states: "In times of crisis like the one we are living with the COVID-19 pandemic, information to make sound decisions is very important. It is not only a question of providing timely responses, defining relevant public policies and solving management problems immediately, but of accessing the knowledge and data that is created and regenerated every day to constitute the scientific corpus applicable by community experts."

Undoubtedly, the Open Access or AA (Open Access) movement has completely changed the atmosphere of publication, distribution and access to scientific knowledge. Open access has become the model of dissemination of information par excellence, a situation that requires publishing bodies to become increasingly demanding, without falling into immediacy or losing the rigor of critical and subjective valuation (peer review) that guarantees knowledge and guarantees to follow the quality path of publications.

This implies that, although the global pandemic phenomenon has led to unexpected changes in the way scientific knowledge is produced and published (Scasso, & Medina, 2020) and, with the current emergency situation, information has intensified, the quality of the information being disclosed cannot be lost, in the face of immediacy transparency transparency must prevail , strictness and editorial controls.

This year 2020 has been for EDUCARE Magazine of renewal and innovation in its editorial policies, all for the purpose of offering within and outside our borders quality intellectual productions, which are shared under the Creative Commons Attribution -Non-Commercial- Share Equal license with open access, a situation that we have maintained since the beginning of the publication by subscribing to the BOAI statement , providing the opportunity for users to have free of charge the full text of the articles and be used for legal purposes.

We have made an important commitment to our users and those who believe in our work, so that to expand and ensure visibility from any technological device, productions have started to be presented in HTML format, also each of them has a digital object identifier (DOI) that guarantees users a stable reference of their production.

On the other hand, the magazine has been accredited by AMELICA open knowledge A.C." and a goodwill operational agreement has been signed between the parties, which highlights transparently disseminating the works and materials that are part of EDUCARE for consultation by the scientific community through its electronic page available on http://www.amelica.org. In addition, it offers us permanent training in editorial management, provides the mechanisms to generate the contents in XLM and from its website create hyperlinks to the main page of the magazine, to the instructions for authors and to their contact mail. All this for interoperability purposes and generate greater visibility.

In addition, EDUCARE has begun to enter into agreements with other journals, Currently we belong to the Latin American Association of Academic Journals of Humanities and Social Sciences, we have also signed an association agreement with the social sciences magazine Chakiñan of the National University of Chimborazo Ecuador. All this with the aim of increasing the visibility of journals at the international level, achieving the exchange of productions to achieve greater development of the national and international scientific field and raising contributions to Open Science policies, because this concrete collaboration stimulates the localization of peers in other parts of the world and promotes from websites the prestige of journals.

There is no doubt that within editorial management we have a long way to go. However, even with the pandemic moment that has touched us to live, the work has been constant and this has allowed us to move forward on the path of editorial quality with the readiness to contribute to the visibility of national and international knowledge. That is why in this new and last installment of the year 2020, and with the best attitude that has always characterized us, we make public venticuatro intellectual productions from eight countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Dominican Republic, Spain and Chile) that show the fertile territories of research and educational reflection, through the writings of researchers and teachers eager to reveal the educational realities , always worthy of study.