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Privacy Policy
At Constructivist Foundations, we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our readers. We do not sell, rent or trade email lists or any data with other institutions, companies, or businesses. This Privacy Policy will provide detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information, and how we use it.
Contact information
- By asking you to register we collect your contact information only to send you news about the journal: Whenever a new issue is published and announcements strictly linked with the journal such as call for papers.
Cookies policy
- We use a combination of session cookies and persistent cookies in order to track how you use and experience our website, and to build anonymous downloads statistics about the papers we publish.
- You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Access to your personal information
- You have the right to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold about you. All information we hold about you is displayed on your personal reader page which you can access with your e-mail address and the password you chose when registering with us. The page also allows you to change your personal data.
- In addition you can request access to the information by email to privacy/at/constructivist.info. We will provide the information free of charge and within one month, except in the event that the request is unfounded, excessive or repetitive, in which case we reserve the right to charge a proportionate administration fee or refuse.
- If any of the information we hold on you is inaccurate or incomplete, you may ask us to correct or complete it at any time.
Your right to be forgotten
- You may request the deletion of any information we hold on you at any time.
- Be aware that requesting deletion is total and irreversible. This means that we will also lose record of you having ever been on our systems, including any previous instructions you have given us opting out of specific emails types. If you re-join our systems, by voluntarily providing your personal information, you will appear to us as a completely new data subject. This does not affect your other rights in any way.
- To request deletion of your personal information, contact privacy/at/constructivist.info using the email address we hold for you or otherwise proving your identity.
Links to other web sites
- This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site to other websites, including the social media buttons you find on every page. Those sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you will need to check that site’s privacy statement.
Security
- We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit personal data via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Changes
Constructivist Foundations may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. The current version is effective from 24 May 2018.
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Editorial Policy
Editors should ensure that published articles conform to the community standards as described below, aiming to promote and support ethical practices in publishing. Please make sure to have carefully read these policies before submitting your manuscript.
Authorship
- Criteria of authorship: Each author is expected (a) to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it; and (b) to have approved the submitted version and any substantial revision that involves the author’s contribution; and (c) to have agreed both to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and the resolution documented in the literature.
- All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section at the end of the publication before the References section.
Ethical aspects
- Research involving human participants, human material, or human data, must have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/
- Experimental research on vertebrates or any regulated invertebrates must comply with the outlines provided by the Basel Declaration, http://www.basel-declaration.org/basel-declaration/
Submission of manuscripts
- Submission of a manuscript to Constructivist Foundations implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content and that the manuscript conforms to the journal’s policies.
- All publications must cite appropriate and relevant literature in support of the claims made. Excessive and inappropriate self-citation is strongly discouraged.
- Before submitting and while reviewing is still in progress authors must not post their submitted manuscripts (nor any draft versions of it) to any public preprint servers (including websites such as academia.edu and ResearchGate), nor on authors’ or institutional websites.
- Any manuscript submitted to Constructivist Foundations must be original and the manuscript, or substantial parts of it, must not be under consideration by any other journal.
- All submitted manuscripts must include a declaration of good scientific practice and against (self-)plagiarism.
- Authors should be aware that replication of text from their own previous publications is self-plagiarism, and in some cases is considered unacceptable.
Conflicts of interest / competing interests
- Constructivist Foundations requires authors to declare all competing interests in relation to their work at the end of their submitted manuscripts listing all competing interests (financial and non-financial). Where authors have no competing interests, the statement should read “The author(s) declare(s) that they have no competing interests.”
Peer review processes
- All material submitted for publication in Constructivist Foundations undergoes thorough reviewing drawing on in-house and external experts.
- Editors will treat all manuscripts submitted to Constructivist Foundations in confidence. Reviewers are required to respect the confidentiality of the peer review process and not reveal any details of a manuscript or its review, during or after the peer-review process, beyond the information released by the journal. If reviewers wish to involve a colleague in the review process they should first obtain permission from the journal.
Allegations of misconduct
- Constructivist Foundations takes seriously all allegations of potential misconduct including non-ethical research involving humans, data falsification and fabrication, and plagiarism. In cases of suspected research or publication misconduct, it may be necessary for the editor to contact and share manuscripts with third parties, for example, the authors’ institution and ethics committees.
Post-publication corrections
- Changes to a published article that affect the interpretation and conclusion of the article, but do not fully invalidate the article, will be published on the article’s web page. In no circumstances will Constructivist Foundations alter the (electronic) content of a publication after the publication date.
Complaints and appeals
- Authors who wish to appeal an editorial decision should submit a formal e-mail of appeal to the editor-in-chief at editor/at/constructivist.info.
- Constructivist Foundations remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in institutional affiliations.
Changes
Constructivist Foundations may change the policy from time to time by updating this page. The current version is effective from 24 September 2020.
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Publication Reuse Policy
Content is published on an exclusive licence or copyright assignment basis, and reuse rights are retained and controlled by Constructivist Foundations.
Personal use
Individuals accessing the content may view, reproduce, or store copies of the content provided that it is used only for strictly personal, non-commercial use. Any use of such content in whole or in part must include the bibliographic citation, i.e., author(s), date, paper title, journal title, volume, number, pages, and URL.
Individuals may also carry out text and data mining of the journal’s content for non-commercial purposes without the need for formal permission.
Strictly personal, non-commercial use means that:
- Citation details must not be altered or removed;
- Copies must not be distributed on any electronic network, including without limitation the internet and the world wide web;
- No part of the content may be used for any commercial use.
In scholarly contexts (teaching and research), the principle of “fair use” applies: parts no longer than the usual length of scientific citations may be cited in other works for analysis, criticism, discussion, and illustration without formal permission, provided that (a) they are fully referenced and (b) they are not used for commercial purposes.
In particular, larger portions of journal content (i.e., beyond the usual length of scientific citations) may not be paraphrased and/or rephrased using AI technology for the purpose of submitting it to other journals.
If in doubt, please contact permissions/at/constructivist.info.
Author self-archiving
The original submitted (“preprint”) version may be uploaded to the author’s personal website, institutional or non-commercial subject based repositories, commercial platforms (i.e., services intended to make a commercial gain) and social media only after the text has been accepted (or rejected) for publication. During the process of double-blind peer reviewing the preprint version must not be made publicly accessible.
The “postprint” version that includes modifications based on reviewers’ suggestions, but which has not undergone copyediting, typesetting and proof correction yet, may be uploaded to the author’s personal website or institutional or non-commercial subject based repositories after publication. It is not permitted to upload postprint version to commercial platforms and social media
The final edited and typeset version must not be uploaded to any internet platform including the author’s personal web page, institutional or non-commercial subject based repositories, commercial platforms and social media. However, the abstract of papers can be uploaded and shared anywhere provided it is accompanied by full citation details and the official link to the published version on the website of Constructivist Foundations. The general format of these links is https://constructivist.info/vol/num/firstpage
Open access/free access
Authors who have agreed to publish their paper on an open access/free access basis, and who have paid any associated fees, are entitled to make their published paper publically available anywhere including commercial platforms.
When posting, distributing or reusing open access/free access papers, Constructivist Foundations should be clearly attributed as the original place of publication and correct citation details should be given. Authors should also add the official link to the published version on the website of Constructivist Foundations to ensure correct citation of the paper in question.
Authors of open access papers are free to post and distribute their links anywhere immediately upon publication.
Funding bodies
Authors are responsible for all funding agency compliance and the accuracy of information provided in relation to the paper in question. Constructivist Foundations shall not be responsible for checking that funding agency requirements have been complied with.
Reuse or distribution rights
Any use, reuse or distribution not permitted in the sections above, will require formal permission from Constructivist Foundations. In order to obtain permissions to use the content beyond that described above, contact permissions/at/constructivist.info.
Changes
Constructivist Foundations may change the policy from time to time by updating this page. The current version is effective from 9 June 2023.