Objectives and scope
OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE JOURNAL
Supervisión21 is a free and open access journal, edited by Unión Sindical de Inspectores de Educación (USIE), responsible for its ownership and management, with no other financial support or links to other educational or business organisations.
The publication does not include any direct marketing activities, except those linked to actions of the publisher, USIE. Supervision21 and the texts it publishes are non-commercial.
Four issues per year are published quarterly, in the last week of January, April, July and October of each year.
The aim of the journal is to disseminate relevant aspects of the education field, devoting specific and prominent treatment to issues related to education inspection, as well as those directly linked to it: school organisation and participation, legislation, pedagogical leadership, evaluation in all areas, educational quality and improvement, and the rights and duties of the educational community.
The journal is aimed at the entire educational community, including education inspectors, management teams, teachers, lecturers, researchers and any member of it.
The journal Supervisión21 is regulated by an Editorial Board and a Scientific Board, whose members include education inspectors and relevant experts on educational issues from various fields and levels. The composition of both boards is public and can be consulted at http://usie.es/supervision21/.
Supervisión21 follows a direct access policy and does not charge authors for itself or for the publication of articles. You can subscribe freely to the journal by sending an e-mail request to the journal's e-mail address or by filling in the news subscriber form on the website: http://usie.es/.
The information provided on USIE and Supervisión21 can be verified by readers and authors in all its terms.
For its archiving and indexing, the journal is part of the catalogue, registry and archive of DIALNET (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, OAI-PMH), REBIUN, GOOGLE SCHOLAR and DOAJ (Directory of Access Journals); it is also registered in the Journal Management and Publication System OJS (Open Journal Systems), and LATINDEX DIRECTORIO.
Likewise, it is incorporated into CROSSREF, assigning the Digital Object Identifier System (DOI) to those articles and collaborations of greater relevance, and according to the assessment of the Editorial and Scientific Board, guaranteeing in its archives the preservation and access to its content in the event that it ceases to be published.
Authors who wish to publish in Supervisón21 are recommended to be included, in their personal capacity, in ORCID, indicating their personal identifier.
The journal includes services that facilitate interactivity with readers, such as participation in academic social networks – Mendeley, ResearchGate, Academia.edu -