About the Journal
The Peer Review Process
a) The texts included in the articles section are always subject to external review and evaluation.
The following process will be applied to all papers subject toexternal review and evaluation:
1. Manuscript submission (see "Instructions for Authors" available on this website. Following registration, manuscripts should be submitted online, see "Online submissions")
The Editor will then assign the manuscript to a member of the Editorial Board who will serve as a rapporteur.
2. In-House Screening
The rapporteur will review the manuscript to assess its originality, relevance, and whether it fits the journal’s aims and thematic scope. Negative responses will provide well-grounded reasons for exclusion.
3. External review and evaluation
Following a positive assessment of the manuscript, the rapporteur will invite two external experts in the field related to the subject of the manuscript to review the article. External evaluation is conducted through a predetermined questionnaire. Review isdouble-blind (neither the reviewers nor the authors are aware of each other’s identities). Reviews also remain anonymous to the members of the Editorial Board, with the exception of the rapporteur and the Editor. The reviewers can reject the manuscript, request revisions, accept the manuscript for publication with suggestions or revisions, or, lastly, accept it for publication with no changes required. Corrections must be explicated and are strongly encouraged to help improve the quality of the manuscripts. A third reviewer will be sought if the two revisions diverge significantly. Communication between the reviewers and the author will be conducted through the Editorial Board. If corrections are advised, the reviewers must re-examine the manuscript once the amendments have been made.
4. Editorial decision
The rapporteur will then present the external reviewers’ reports and the corrections made by the authors to the Editorial Board who will accept or reject the manuscript. The final decision is made by the Editorial Board in its condition as a collegiate body. The author will receive a reasoned, well-grounded response, including the reviewers’ comments. The authors will be informed of the Editorial Board’s decision within two months of submission.
The journal is published annually.
The journal provides immediate, open access to its content under the principle of providing the public with no-cost access to research, thereby promoting the exchange of knowledge on a global scale.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as to earlier and greater citation of the published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
If you would like to be included in ETF Journal’s Reviewer Database, send your CV to revista-etf@geo.uned.es and the Editorial Board will consider it for inclusion.
Organization Chart
Director of ETF. Series I-VII: Dean of the School of Geography and History at UNED.
Secretary of de ETF. Series I-VII: Deputy Secretary of the School of Geography and History at UNED.
Editorial Committee of ETF. Series I-VII: The committee is composed of the Editors of each Series and the Deputy Secretary of the School of Geography and History at UNED.
Advisory Board of ETF. Series I-VII: The board is composed of the Vice Dean of Research at the School of Geography and History at UNED, a professor from each department, and, when appropriate, the Head of each Department.
Editorial Board of ETF. Serie II. Historia Antigua: The Board is composed of doctors, members of the Department of History of Art at the School of Geography and History, UNED. One member serves as Director of the Board and the Editor as his or her Secretary.
Committee of Experts: The committee is composed of renowned Spanish and international experts.
Preservation policy
Digital preservation is understood as a set of processes and activities that ensure that information currently existing in digital formats is backed up and distributed to guarantee long-term, continuous access. It is supported by the services of the UNED's CSI (Computer Services Center), which is responsible for preservation through backups.
Furthermore, the journal is part of the private LOCKSS network of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP-PLN): https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2340-1370
The preservation policy also includes the assignment of DOIs to the journal title, each issue, and each article.
Complaints and Suggestions
If you are a reader, author or reviewer and have a complaint or suggestion to make to ETF. Serie II, please send an e-mail to revista-etf@geo.uned.es. Committed to quality standards, the journal’s Editorial Board and/or Editorial Committee will respond to your e-mail.
