The Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Información, founded in 1996, was a novelty in the panorama of Spanish university communication journals. Attached to the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University. The Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Información is a non-commercial scientific journal, with an uninterrupted edition since its foundation year. The process of evolution of knowledge generated that, to the thematic axes originally raised, others were added to respond to the new spaces of knowledge generated in the 21^st-century.

The magazine is bilingual Spanish / English. The official language of the journal is Spanish, although contributions are accepted in the original English, French, Italian and Portuguese languages. As of the year 2021, it is published continuously, uploading the articles individually as the editorial process is completed in electronic format with free access.

Open-Access Policy

This journal provides open digital access to promote free access to scientific documentation. The paper edition can be obtained by subscription to cover printing and shipping costs. The Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Informacion provides immediate free access to its content under the principle of making research freely available to the public (Creative Commons Attribution/Non-Commercial 4.0 International), which fosters a greater global knowledge exchange. Readers can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link the full text of the articles, as well as use it for any other purpose within the current legislation and the ethical imperative of always citing the source. Likewise, we inform that the Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Informacion adheres to the Berlin Declaration. 

Interoperability protocol 

The journal has incorporated the interoperability protocol. The OAI-PMH protocol (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), for this, you can access the URL: http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites, to search your data record. OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) is a protocol used for the transmission of metadata on the Internet.

Digital preservation policy

Digital preservation can be seen as a set of processes and activities that ensure that information that now exists in digital formats is backed up and distributed to ensure long-term continuous access.
The RCCI has established a preservation policy for its digital files that includes the following measures:

Backups
Converting formats to safer ones
Regular checks on the integrity of files to avoid corruption
Monitoring of the technological environment to anticipate possible migrations of obsolete formats or software.

The preservation policy includes the assignment of DOIs to each article.
The digital preservation policy will be reviewed periodically.

Publishing fees 

The journal is free as no publishing or reading fees are charged. 

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) 

Funding

The Council of Science Editors recommends that authors specify the source of their research funding. Priority will be given to papers supported by competitive national and international projects.

Code of Ethics

It adheres to the international standards and codes of ethics established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (Code of Conduct and Best Practices Guidelines for Journals Editors, COPE).

The journal's quality is centered on the timeliness of its three annual issues (July and December), the level of visibility through the following systems: DOI, ORCID, E-LIS, MENDELEY, GOOGLE CITATIONS, IRALIS, ACADEMIA.EDU, JOURNAL TOCS, and RESEARCHGATE, and the guarantee of anonymity during review through the anonymous peer review system.

Editorial practices in gender equality.

The Journal of Communication and Information Sciences seeks to promote the use of gender-neutral and inclusive language in scientific publications. For this reason, authors are asked to use forms that include both women and men in their texts. The use of gender-neutral language is not a binding criterion for manuscript rejection; however, authors must adhere to any recommendations that may arise during the manuscript's editorial process to ensure that the text presents gender-neutral language.

Similarly, the Journal of Communication and Information Sciences takes gender into consideration to allow for the identification of analyses and research results submitted for publication.

The journal includes the full names of the authors of the papers it publishes.

Consult the recommendations in the following manuals:

Guidelines for the Equal Use of Language and Images at the University of Malaga

Guide for Equal Language at the University of Valencia

Guide for the Equal and Non-Sexist Use of Language and Images at the University of Jaén