About the Journal

General information

The journal Uztaro emerged in an attempt to respond to the growing need of Basque universities for material in the Basque language. It contains articles on themes related to the aforementioned fields, the majority of them of current interest and which may serve as the basis for discussion. In this way, the journal offers a solution to the problem of the scarcity of material in Basque for the student community in Basque universities and, at the same time, it guarantees a greater use of knowledge in different areas.

As one of the first scientific journals entirely in Basque, Uztaro has been a pioneer in regulating and organising peer review procedure as well as appearing in and being indexing in bibliographic databases of international reference. Although the size of the Basque linguistic community imposes undeniable limits, we tackle the new challenges with enthusiasm.

In 2024, the journal takes a step forward. It has become a digital publication and through the Open Journal System OJS platform it is managed and published digitally.

Content and structure

The aim of the journal Uztaro is to publish articles on human and social sciences. The works focus primarily on the following fields: Anthropology and ethnology, economy and enterprise, legal sciences, psychology, philosophy, communication and journalism, political sciences, sociology and social work, sociolinguistics, information and documentation sciences, linguistics, literature, translation, classical studies, art, history and geography.

The works emanating from courses, seminars or conferences organised by the UEU will have priority in the journal Uztaro, while “outside” manuscripts will also be admitted provided they are new and have not been published elsewhere.

The journal consists of three sections: articles, book reviews and references to doctoral theses.

Articles: they are the corpus of the journal and are published after they pass the peer review process. The title, summary and key words of each article are given both in Basque and English.
Book reviews: references to some books, recently published. Critical recommendations are given, mentioning books which may be of interest for the reader.
Review of doctoral theses in Basque: the author of the thesis writes his/her own summary of the thesis.

Evaluation process

In Uztaro we are making great efforts to search for quality, paying special attention to the following areas:

• Quality of content, putting manuscripts through at least two filters.
• The evaluation of manuscripts is performed by at least two reviewers, of which at least one is always from outside the journal.
• Proofreading of Basque, bearing in mind the intelligibility and standardisation of technical vocabulary and the screening of all texts by a proof-reader.
• Application of specific rules for the presentation of bibliography, citations, letter fonts.
• Determining the accuracy of frequency, publishing annually 500 pages in four issues.

The Writing Committee will decide on the publication in each of the sections, having analysed the papers following the double blind peer review procedure; at least two reviewers will draw up the Review Report (only in Basque) of each paper, and at least one of them will not be connected to the Writing Committee.

The decision on whether or not to publish the original work, as well as its publication with previous amendments, will be communicated no later than three months from the reception of the manuscript.

Instructions on writing for the journal may be consulted in the section Guidelines to Authors in the web page (only in Basque).

The Writing Committee and persons collaborating with the journal adopt in general the Code of Ethics and Good Practices established by the Committee on Publication Ethics, (COPE) The Guidelines to the Publishing Process, to which publications in the UEU must comply, are based on this code (only in Basque).

Frequency

Currently, UZTARO Giza eta gizarte-zientzien aldizkaria the Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is issued quarterly.

Until 1996, three issues were published every year, but since then four issues have been published per year (in March, June, September and December).

Each issue has an average of 125 pages and four types of articles are published: the main section of the journal is composed of scientific articles (with external blind evaluation), followed, depending on the issue, by mentions of books and doctoral theses, as well as tasks related to the academic activity of the UEU.

The subscription to receive the paper version is €25 per year and with this you receive paper copies at home (four issues per year, around 500 pages in total). The digital version will be published at the same time and can be consulted and downloaded free of charge. SUBSCRIPTION REQUEST

Acknowledgement of rights of use

Uztaro. Humanities and Social Sciences Journal in it's digital format, provides unrestricted and free online access to all the contents of the journal. From the moment of its publication, will be licensed under the CC-BY-NC-SA, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license.

The use of the contents of the journal in any form or format known or developed in the future, as well as any other use, is always authorized, as long as reference is made to the author and the journal, allowing their dissemination through open access systems and allowing the use of international scientific communities and other societies.

Uztaro. Humanities and Social Sciences Journal is also published on paper, and the first year of its publication, the paper version will be paid. Once the year has passed, the paper version is no longer distributed.

In addition to storing the contents of Uztaro magazine on paper, they will also be guaranteed the deposit in digital format. UEU aldizkariak.ueu.eus keeps a copy on the web and www.ueu.eus/argitaletxea/aldizkariak in the digital library.