About the Journal

Tsantsa. Journal of Artistic Research (e-ISSN:1390-8448) is an arbitrated electronic research journal of annual periodicity and open access. Tsantsa is established as a platform dedicated to the exploration of culture from aspects relating to the visual arts, design, performing arts and music, within the framework of contemporary society and aesthetics. A space to present recent research by experts and professionals in the field.

Tsantsa is evaluated through the double-blind peer review system, thus ensuring an objective, impartial and transparent review process, which is recognized by the international databases in which it is indexed.

Tsantsa is an open-access journal, which means that all content is available free of charge to the user or their institution. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles in this journal without prior permission from the publisher or author, which will be done on a non-profit basis and always citing the original author and address of the journal. This is in accordance with the OSI definition of open access.

The original articles received, once examined for compliance with publication standards, are forwarded to the Internal Editorial Committee for verification of their conformity for publication, especially their relevance, quality and clarity.

Once admitted, they will be subject to peer review by blind experts in the field and outside our institution.

The blind peer evaluation will be carried out by at least two reviewers. This is a procedure in which the anonymity of both authors and reviewers is taken care of. This system culminates with a failure that determines whether or not the document has the necessary quality for publication. The possible results include acceptance without corrections, pre-acceptance with a request for corrections to the authors, or rejection of the document.

Once the verdict of the evaluators has been received, the Editorial Board will decide whether or not to proceed with its publication. The decision of the reviewers is final.

All the stages mentioned may be followed by the author, after entering his manuscript in the Open Journal Systems system, managed by the journal.

Sections

There are currently five sections in the journal: Presentation, Articles for thematic dossier, Regular articles, Reviews and interviews, and the new section Artistic creation.

Artistic creation

Tsantsa invites artists, critics and curators to contribute with original contributions to the new section Artistic  creation. This section is dedicated exclusively to creative contributions, such as:

- WORKS. Reviews, comments, critiques of the work(s) of an artist or collective.

- SAMPLES. Fragments (photographs, stills, videos) of exhibitions, concerts, musical acts, stage works, performances. This contribution must be accompanied by a brief critical commentary.

- ESSAYS. Essay (visual or sound) on free themes (these works are commissioned to the authors by the editors of the journal).

- IN PROGRESS (work in progress). Fragments, sketches, sequences, assemblies in progress by an artist or collective. This contribution must be accompanied by an introduction-description of the process.

Characteristics: Contributions for this section must contain the following basic rules for publication:

- The contribution should contain a minimum of four hundred words as an introduction-description (Word file, single-spaced, A4 format, normal margin). The text should include basic data and references about the artist, technical data and theoretical concepts of the work/theme in question.

- The contribution must be preceded by a six-line summary and five key words.

- It may not exceed six pages and may contain up to six images (Max. 10 x 10 points per image). If it is a visual essay, it can be increased up to ten images.

- Correctly reference the bibliography. Use APA 7th edition standards.

Evaluation: The originals received will be examined by two members of the Editorial Board, taking into account their quality, coherence and justified demonstration of the value of the theme (artist, work, project). This committee will be made up of artists related to the discipline of the proposed original.

Open Access Policy

Open Policy

Tsantsa. Journal of Artistic Research is an open-access journal that is completely free of charge for readers, encouraging them to reuse and self-archive their digital articles in catalogues, virtual repositories and databases at an international level.  For this reason, Tsantsa. Journal of Artistic Research is included in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journal) since May 2017 and has a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Tsantsa only reserves the right to publish the documents.

Copyright

Articles published in Tsantsa. Journal of Artistic Research adhere to the following premises.

The University of Cuenca, as an editing entity, reserves the copyright of the published texts, since it consents and collaborates in their reuse by means of the Creative Commons Attribution-No-Commercial-No Derivative Work 4.0 Ecuador license, in such a way that their copy, use, diffusion, transmission and public exhibition are feasible under the condition that:

  • The authorship and the original sources are correctly cited (name of the publication, editing entity, URL and identification of digital material.)
  • Not used for commercial or profit purposes.
  • Reference is made to the validity and details of this Creative Commons license.
  • The entire document, metadata and article citations can be tracked and accessed with permission. Our open social policy also enhances the readability of files and their metadata, enabling interoperability under the open data and open source OAI-PMH protocol. The files, segmented by articles, are available in PDF.

As far as self-archiving is concerned, authors are authorized to reuse published articles. In other words, the post-print can be archived as long as it does not present commercial purposes, and can be placed in thematic or institutional repositories.

Readers' rights

The contents of Tsantsa are open and readers have every right to access them free of charge from the moment they are published. Tsantsa. Journal of Artistic Research does not ask for any financial charge to the reader.

Publication charges

Tsantsa does not request any type of financial charge from authors for the publication of their articles (APCs).

Publication stored by third parties

Tsantsa helps to ensure that the documents it publishes are stored in reliable databases after publication.

Archived

Tsantsa. Journal of Artistic Research uses different national and international databases to house the documents it publishes and/or its bibliographical references. Some noteworthy databases are: Latindex, REDIB, MIAR, ZBD. The systems and protocols of security and safeguarding of the information of the University of Cuenca (Ecuador) guarantee its digital archiving.

Digital preservation policies

All the content of Tsantsa. Journal of Artistic Research is preserved in the digital repositories of the University of Cuenca. It is also stored in the cloud through institutional subscriptions to Google Drive, and in the REDIB archiving regime. In addition, Tsantsa makes use of the PKP PN storage system.

Code of ethics

Tsantsa. is a journal that seeks the highest editorial quality, so it is based on the ethical standards of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), to regulate the commitments of editors, reviewers and authors. In this way, the journal adheres to COPE's code of conduct standards, available at: http://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct

Anti-plagiarism policy

All the articles received by Tsantsa are revised based on the anti-plagiarism policies of the University of Cuenca, which ensure the originality of the manuscripts.

The editor, the authors and the reviewers must follow the international ethical rules dictated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in order to avoid cases of:

  • Artificial processing, adulteration or negligence in the provision of data.
  • Plagiarism (including self-plagiarism).
  • Duplicate, redundant or fragmented publication.
  • Negligence in the provision of references to reference sources.
  • Use of content without permission or unjustifiably.
  • Usurpation of collective authorship.
  • Alterations of authorship.
  • Conflict of interest not declared or undisclosed.
  • Other causes that will arise during the process of elaboration of the document and its publication.

The journal Tsantsa relies on digital tools (Turnitin System that analyzes the complete texts in search of grammatical and ortho-typographic coincidences) that detect any of these cases in the postulated manuscripts, and it is the task of the editors and reviewers to ensure that the indispensable originality and veracity of the citation is complied with.