Editorial policy

AMIDI.Biblioteca is an open-access digital publishing platform for academic and research books, managed by the Academia Mexicana de Investigación y Docencia en Innovación S.C. (AMIDI) through AMIDI Editorial. Its purpose is to publish, co-edit, preserve, disseminate, and enable interoperability for academic works with editorial quality, institutional traceability, open access, and verifiable metadata.

AMIDI.Biblioteca operates under a continuous publishing model. Academic works may be incorporated into the catalogue once the editorial process, academic review, documentary validation, metadata assignment, digital preservation, and open-access publication have been completed. This model allows the catalogue to be updated continuously, without relying on journal issues, numbers, or semester-based publication periods.

Editorial Modalities

AMIDI.Biblioteca recognizes the following editorial modalities:

AMIDI Editions: academic works published under the editorial responsibility of AMIDI Editorial, with AMIDI ISBN, academic peer review, open access, digital preservation, editorial metadata, and dissemination through AMIDI.Biblioteca.

AMIDI Co-editions: academic works developed through formal collaboration between AMIDI Editorial and one or more universities, research centers, academic networks, chairs, research groups, academic publishers, or co-publishing institutions, with institutional traceability, academic peer review, open access, digital preservation, editorial metadata, and dissemination through AMIDI.Biblioteca.

Academic Works Associated with an AMIDI Co-edition Process: academic works originally published by universities, research centers, academic publishers, or external institutions, incorporated into AMIDI.Biblioteca through formal authorization for purposes of digital preservation, open access, scholarly dissemination, interoperability, metadata harvesting, and editorial traceability. This modality does not replace the ISBN, peer review, license, ownership, editorial responsibility, or edition of origin. When express authorization exists, the work may be formalized as an AMIDI co-edition and may incorporate the name, imprint, or logo of AMIDI Editorial.

Types of Works Accepted

AMIDI.Biblioteca considers for evaluation and publication academic and research works, including research books, collective books, book chapters, methodological works, applied research works, academic proceedings, specialized academic dissemination works, and institutional co-editions.

Works must provide academic, scientific, technological, humanistic, social, methodological, or applied value, and must be aligned with the thematic areas and editorial scope of AMIDI.Biblioteca.

Editorial Process and Editorial Guidance

Every submitted work will be reviewed by the editorial team to verify its thematic relevance, academic structure, formal compliance, originality, clarity, editorial quality, legal documentation, license, metadata, and alignment with the policies of AMIDI.Biblioteca.

Works that meet the initial requirements may be sent for academic peer review by external reviewers. Final acceptance will depend on the outcome of the evaluation process, compliance with reviewers’ observations, documentary validation, and the corresponding editorial authorization.

For AMIDI Editions and new AMIDI Co-editions, AMIDI Editorial may provide editorial guidance to authors, coordinators, or academic editors during the preparation, review, correction, layout, metadata integration, digital preservation, and open-access publication of the work.

The receipt of a work does not imply a commitment to publish it.

Academic Peer Review

All works published with the AMIDI imprint under the modality of AMIDI Editions, as well as new or previously published AMIDI Co-editions formalized for incorporation into AMIDI.Biblioteca, must have external academic peer review or verifiable evidence of academic evaluation, according to the nature of the work and the corresponding editorial modality.

In the case of AMIDI Editions and new AMIDI Co-editions, academic peer review will be part of the regular editorial process before publication. In the case of previously published works incorporated with the AMIDI imprint as AMIDI Co-editions or Academic Works Associated with an AMIDI Co-edition Process, evidence of peer review, academic evaluation, institutional endorsement, or equivalent editorial evidence from the edition of origin must be provided, together with formal authorization for preservation, dissemination, interoperability, open-access availability, and use of the AMIDI imprint or logo.

The existence of a review report, letter, certificate, institutional endorsement, record, or equivalent evidence must be preserved as part of the editorial traceability of the work.

Originality and Anti-Plagiarism

Every submitted work must be original, properly cited, and respectful of copyright, image rights, intellectual property rights, confidentiality, privacy, personal data protection, and third-party rights.

AMIDI.Biblioteca may verify the originality of submitted works through anti-plagiarism software, including iThenticate, as well as through editorial review and analysis of similarity, citations, references, and sources.

As a general editorial criterion, works should not exceed an unjustified similarity level of 20%. However, the final assessment will depend on the nature of the matches, the correct use of citations, source attribution, the presence of previously published materials, and the academic relevance of their inclusion.

Works involving plagiarism, undeclared self-plagiarism, editorial duplication, fabrication or falsification of data, manipulation of results, unauthorized use of third-party materials, or misappropriation of ideas, texts, images, tables, figures, instruments, or data will not be accepted.

As part of the editorial process, authors, coordinators, academic editors, or authorized representatives must sign the Letter of Originality Declaration, Authorization for Publication, Co-edition or Editorial Incorporation, and License of Use.

Open Access, Licenses, and Rights

AMIDI.Biblioteca provides immediate open access to its works for reading, consultation, and download, without payment, subscription, or registration by readers.

Unless otherwise stated, works published, co-edited, or incorporated into AMIDI.Biblioteca are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Authors retain their moral rights and grant AMIDI Editorial a non-exclusive authorization to publish, co-edit, preserve, disseminate, publicly communicate, describe through metadata, and enable open-access interoperability for the work.

The assignment of Crossref DOI, when applicable, is part of the editorial processes of AMIDI Editorial and does not imply that authors must pay memberships, annual fees, renewals, or additional charges for the digital identification of the work.

Metadata, DOI, Interoperability, and Preservation

To strengthen the identification, citation, traceability, preservation, and interoperability of its publications, AMIDI Editorial may assign Crossref DOI to books, book chapters, and academic works, when applicable. The DOI provides a persistent identifier that facilitates the location, citation, linking, and retrieval of works in digital environments.

AMIDI.Biblioteca integrates editorial metadata in Open Monograph Press (OMP), compatible with bibliographic description schemes such as Dublin Core, and enables interoperability through OAI-PMH, in order to support information retrieval, metadata harvesting, digital preservation, and discoverability in compatible systems, catalogues, harvesters, and academic platforms.

These processes do not imply any guarantee of indexing, automatic inclusion, or permanence in external platforms, databases, catalogues, or harvesters, as they depend on the technical, editorial, and administrative criteria of each external entity.

AMIDI.Biblioteca promotes the digital preservation of its contents through formats, metadata, and systems compatible with good practices for academic preservation. When applicable, it may rely on preservation mechanisms such as LOCKSS and CLOCKSS, as well as other technical strategies aimed at maintaining the availability, integrity, and permanence of digital works.

Author Responsibility

Authors, coordinators, academic editors, or authorized representatives are responsible for the authorship, originality, content, sources, permissions, images, data, opinions, results, and materials included in the work.

When a work has been previously published, this must be declared at the beginning of the editorial process, and the corresponding formal authorization, rights validation, applicable license, information on the previous edition, and justification for its incorporation into AMIDI.Biblioteca must be submitted.

Editorial Ethics and Non-Discrimination

AMIDI.Biblioteca adheres to principles of academic integrity, editorial transparency, confidentiality, impartiality, author responsibility, respect for copyright, and good scholarly publishing practices. Its processes are guided by the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), available at publicationethics.org.

AMIDI.Biblioteca rejects any expression of discrimination, racism, sexism, violence, exclusion, stigmatization, hate speech, or any content contrary to academic integrity, human dignity, and good scholarly publishing practices.

Corrections, Retractions, and Editorial Measures

When significant errors, plagiarism, duplication, authorship issues, questionable data, undeclared conflicts of interest, misuse of sources, or any situation affecting the integrity of a work are identified, AMIDI Editorial may issue corrections, clarifications, editorial notes, errata, retractions, temporary withdrawal, or permanent withdrawal of the work.

Failure to comply with these policies may result in requests for clarification, corrections, suspension of the editorial process, rejection, withdrawal of the publication, or the adoption of other appropriate editorial measures.