About the Journal

General description of the Journal

The Spanish Journal of Transparency (RET) is published online twice a year every semester by the Spanish Association of Professionals and Researchers of Transparency (ACREDITRA). The purpose of the journal is to encourage the analysis and exchange of reflections and research results on the subjects covered.

Its field of action is focused on transparency and the strengthening of the democratic state, encompassing related areas such as participation, informational freedoms, mechanisms of balance and checks between powers, accountability, the Open State and Government, and Good Governance. Therefore, its contents revolve around the following thematic areas:

• Transparency: active publicity and the right of access to public information.
• Strengthening the democratic state.
• Informational freedoms.
• Control of public powers. Checks and balances. Safeguards against the actions of public authorities.
• Good Governance. Open State. Open Government.
• Participation, collaboration, and accountability.

 The journal is aimed at researchers, professionals and technicians who work for public entities related to these matters.

 

One click: Main information about the Journal. 

• Editorial team and contact.
• Sections policy.
• Gender equality policy.
• Instructions to authors and style guidelines. - Template.
• External peer review.
• Policies of open access, archive, rights and copyright.
• Indexes and databases.
• Ethical Code, fight against plagiarism and bad practices..
• Registration of authors - If already registered: Entry to the internal area.
• Submission articles.
• Social networks: X and academia.edu

Characteristics data sheet:

• ISSN (electronic version): 2444-2607
• Periodicity: biannual (2 issues per year). Periods: January-June and July-December.
• Programming of the next volumes: +info
• Participation and submission of contributions: free and open to anyone (+info).
• Originality requirement: yes (+info).
• References and bibliography: Harvard (+info).
• Type of review: external by peers (+info).
• Use of antiplagliarism software: yes  (+info).
• Ethical code: own, complemented with COPE/CORE Practices (+info).
• Open access and license:  Creative Commonts CC BY SA (+ info).
• Digital preservation and archiving: own policies and Lockss system (+ info).

Publisher:

The RET is published by ACREDITRA, association that brings together professionals and researchers and carries out activities of scientific and professional interest such as the annual organization of Internacional Transparency Congress (at the Complutense University of Madrid in 2016 and 2017, University of Cádiz in 2018, University of Malaga in 2019, UNED in 2020 and University of Alicante in 2021).

Address, registration number and tax code:

• _{ACREDITRA. c/ Portillo de San Antón 30005 Murcia. Spain.}
• _{Reg. Nac. Assoc.: Grupo 1º / Sección 1ª / Nº. Nacional: 604676 CIF: G73832156}
• _{E-mail: info@acreditra.com}

Non-commercial Nature and Funding:

The Journal has a non-commercial nature, and there is no fee or payment required from readers or authors.

The RET is consistently self-funded by the publishing entity, which is characterized by not being for profit and not receiving any external support or funding. However, on specific occasions, financial support has been received for the layout and publication of two issues of the Journal (issues 6/2018 and 9/2019) thanks to the collaboration of the Andalusian Council for Transparency and Data Protection, and for an extra issue in 2023 from the Jaume I University of Castellón.