«Sophía» is an open access journal entirely free for readers and authors that favors the reuse and self-archiving of their articles in international databases, repositories, directories and information systems. "Sophia" does not charge to publish, that is, there is no fee or payment by the authors and access to its content is completely free. In this sense, «Sophia» has a Creative Commons 4.0 License of Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 and is included in the directory of Open Access DOAJ. The journal only retains the rights to publish the works, both in print and digital.

1. Copyright
   The articles published in «Alteridad» are subject to the following terms:
   1.1. Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (RUC: 0190151530001) preserves the copyright of the published works, and favors and allows the re-use of the same under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Ecuador license, which it could be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted and publicly displayed provided that:
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   1.2. The publication will grant each item a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Example: Valdés-Pérez, D. (2016). Incidence of Management Techniques in improving administrative decisions. Alteridad, 6 (12), 199-213. Https://doi.org/10.17163/ret.n12.2016.05
   
   2. Open Access Policy
   2.1. «Alteridad» is an open access journal, available in open access with no time restrictions, and is included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
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