Focus and Scope

JOTSE is an international Journal aiming at publishing interdisciplinary research within the university education framework and it is especially focused on the fields of Technology and Science. JOTSE serves as an international forum of reference for Engineering education.

Teaching innovation oriented, the journal will be issued twice per year (every 6 months) and will include original works, research and projects dealing with the new learning methodologies and new learning supporting tools related to the wide range of disciplines the Engineering studies and profession involve.

In addition, JOTSE will also issue special numbers on more technological themes from the different areas of general interest in the industrial world, which may be used as practical cases in classroom tuition and practice. Thereby, getting the working world reality closer to the learning at University.

Among other areas of interest, our Journal will be focused on:

1. Education

2. General Science (Physics, Chemistry, Maths,…)

3. Telecommunications

4. Electricity and Electronics

5. Industrial Computing (Digital, Analogic, Robotics, Ergonomics)

6. Aerospatial (aircraft design and building, engines, materials)

7. Automotive (automotive materials, automobile emissions)

JOTSE select the articles to be published with a double bind, peer review system, following the practices of good scholarly journals.

JOTSE is published semiannually exclusively on-line, and following an open access policy. On-line publication allows to reduce publishing costs, and to make more agile the process of reviewing and edition. Jotse defends that open access publishing fosters the advance of scientific knowledge, making it available to everyone. JOTSE publishes articles in English only.

Section Policies

Special Issue

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Articles

These may be on any topic relevant to engineering education in higher education and may take the form of pedagogic research papers, case studies, critical reviews and evaluations; they may describe investigations of new methods and the results of action research; they may consider policy matters and the changing context of engineering education.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Editorial

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

JOTSE selects its articles following a double blind, peer review process. Once the editorial team has checked that the contribution follows the formatting and content author guidelines, it is sent to two external anonymous reviewers (the reviewers can not belong to the same institutions as the author/s) with expertise in the contribution's field.

Grounded on reviewer's recommendations, the editor will communicate the results of the evaluation to the corresponding author. The editor will communicate the overall result of the evaluation (rejected, accepted or accepted with modifications), including the reviewer's comments.

If the article has been accepted with modifications, authors should send back to the journal a new version of the article, that will be reviewed again by the same team of reviewers. If authors wish, they can attach a letter to the editor, which should indicate the modifications made in the article following the editor's and reviewer's comments. If the authors decide not to follow a particular reviewer's instruction, they can expose in the same letter their reasons for not doing so.

Publication Frequency

JOTSE is published twice a year (March and September). The two issues of one year are the two numbers of one volumen. Occasionally, JOTSE can publish special issues about specific research themes. These special issues can have specific editors. For these special issues, specific calls for papers will be announced.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Indexing

Journal of Technology and Science Education (JOTSE) is indexed and abstracted in:

• CrossRef
  CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. CrossRef’s mandate is to connect users to primary research content, by enabling publishers to work collectively. CrossRef is also the official DOI® link registration agency for scholarly and professional publications. Our citation-linking network today covers tens of millions of articles and other content items from thousands of scholarly and professional publishers.
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
  Ulrichsweb™ is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types–academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peerreviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world. And, it's easy to use!.To read more, please visit http://www.ulrichsweb.com
• UPCommons
  UPCommons, the website that provides open access to the knowledge of UPC, is formed by the group of open institutional repositories of UPC and its aim is to guarantee the safeguarding of the material produced by lecturers and researchers at the University, to maximise that material’s visibility and, consequently, to increase its impact on education and research worldwide.
• Dulcinea. Dulcinea is a product that is part of the project: The Open Access to the scientific production in Spain: current situation analysis and presentation of policiies and strategies to promote their development.
• Open Science Directory. It has been developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library. Their main goals are: To create a global search tool for all open access and special programs journal titles and to enhance the access of these collections by creating direct links to the journals and their articlesincluded in this A-to-Z-list. All information about the included journal collections is available at the websites of the included projects. These websites are directly accessible from the Open Science Directory.
• Recolecta - The project RECOLECTA is a platform that includes all the national scientific repositories and provides services to repository managers and researchers.
• MIAR - MIAR is a system to quantitatively measure the visibility of social science journals based on their presence in different types of databases. Those responsible for this project do not subscribe to any direct correlation between this value and other qualitative criteria such as quality of the magazine, which may influence other factors.
• DIALNET - DIALNET is one of the largest portals bibliographic free access, whose main task is to give greater visibility to Hispanic literature.
• RACO (Catalan Journals in Open Access) RACO is a cooperative repository where can be consulted, in open access, the full-text from articles of scientific, cultural and erudite Catalan journals.
• Hellenic Academic Libraries Link -The Consortium of Greek Academic Libraries.
• University of Ciprus Library
• Electronic Journals Library - The Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek EZB (Electronic Journals Library) offers an effective use of both scientific and academic journals publishing full text articles in the internet.
• ROAR - Registry of Open Access Repositories. The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Open access to research maximises research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and effective.
• Academic Journals Database. AJD is a universal index of periodical literature covering basic research from all fields of knowledge, and in particularly strong in medical research, humanities and social sciences.
• OJS - Open Journal Systems. Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research.

Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2013

Online ISSN: 2013-6374; Print ISSN: 2014-5349; DL: B-2000-2012

Publisher: OmniaScience - Scholar Sponsorship: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech - ICE - RIMA