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EDITORIAL POLICY
With a multidisciplinary vocation and scope, it publishes scientific articles technical-scientific articles, and theoretical or applied studies, resulting from original research, in different fields and scientific areas, namely those corresponding to the fields of teaching and research developed in Portugal and abroad. The editorial policy follows the Principles of Transparency and Good Practice in Academic Publishing of the COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics and the criteria of the Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ, at no cost to the author or the reader. The reviewing process will be integrally managed in a double-blind review system, preserving the identity of authors and reviewers. Millennium is guided by the principle that scientific facts and opinions must be separated: the former are untouchable and the latter are free. This publication is independent of political and economic power and any pressure group, identifying itself with democratic, pluralist, and solidary values. In carrying out its activity, the journal is strictly ruled by the ethical and deontological norms of scientific and research activities and journalism. It defends the pluralism of opinion, without prejudice to being able to take its positions.
PEER REVIEW POLICY
1. The Journal's Board of Reviewers is composed of national and foreign individuals of recognized academic and scientific merit;
2. Selection of the members of the Reviewers Board is the responsibility of the Journal's Editorial Team, and their participation may be on a contingent or occasional basis.
3. The Reviewers are responsible for assessing the quality of the texts submitted for publication and preparing the respective scientific and technical opinions within the established deadline.
4. The articles proposed for publication are submitted to a blind peer review system, according to the criteria described below, safeguarding the specificity of the typology of the articles:
a) Relevance of the article to the dissemination and development of the respective scientific area;
b) Originality (significant or innovative contribution);
c) Objectives (formulation and appropriateness)
d) Accuracy (correctness and precision of concepts);
e) Methodology (adequacy and depth in the approach to the subject; respect for the ethical norms of scientific research and publication);
f) Results (rigor in presentation, analysis, and discussion);
g) Conclusions (innovative or confirmatory knowledge contributed by the study; technical and scientific implications of the study; limitations; future lines of research);
h) Timeliness and accuracy of the bibliography used (accuracy of the citations; precise and rigorous referencing technique);
i) Overall quality of the text (objectives set; logical and balanced structure; clear and coherent exposition; objective and factual style; grammatical correctness and language accuracy);
j) Adequacy to Millenium's editorial policy and norms presented on the Journal's website.
5. The assessment of the article is carried out anonymously by two or more reviewers according to the appropriate assessment tool
6. The reviewers have at their disposal a grid for evaluating the quality of the article. This is available on the Journal's website.
7. Reviewers are given a maximum of four consecutive weeks from the date of receipt of the text to evaluate the article and issue their opinion. The Editorial Team reserves the right to alter this deadline in specific cases. The computer system generates reminders to alert the reviewer of the review process times.
8. If it is impossible to review the texts, reviewers must inform the Section Editor within eight (8) days of receiving them, so that the Editor can send them to another reviewer. If a reviewer does not meet the deadline, he or she will be removed from the review process and a third party will be designated for this purpose.
9. The quality classification of articles is made according to four levels: Level A (the article should be published without changes); Level B (the article can be published with some changes); Level C (the article can be published with the changes suggested by the reviewer; the new version of the work requires appreciation); Level D (the article does not meet the conditions for publication).
10. Authors receive the Editor's evaluation and an anonymous copy of the Reviewers' opinion aggregating the evaluation and comments for the authors.
11. Authors should proceed with the changes and submit a new version of the article within 30 days after the notification, which may exceptionally be revised by the decision of the Editor.
12. The reviewers have the right to present a favorable opinion conditioned to the reformulation of the article.
POLICY ARBITRATION PROCESS TO THE EVALUATION MECHANISM
Peer review is a constructive process, therefore, the reviewers, besides evaluating the scientific content of the article, should contribute with criticisms and recommendations for its improvement. The reviewers' opinions/comments will be sent to the authors when justified. However, the authors of the article will not know the identity of the reviewers.
1 - All articles submitted to Millennium will be assessed for their quality and technical-scientific merit through a process of arbitration by peers, with a double-blind review.
2 - The process of arbitration and assessment begins after receipt of the submitted article and culminates with its publication or refusal. It is supported by the 9-step ABCDEFGHI Publication Decision Flowchart: A- Assignment of Code; B- Pre-analysis; C- Peer Review; D- Supervision of Review; E- Technical and Documentary Review; F- Final Review; G- Translation; H- Composition, Graphic Design, and Layout; HTML; I- Dissemination in databases.
A - Code Assignment: All articles submitted to Millennium receive a numerical code to support the arbitration process, in a double-blind review system, preserving the identity of authors and reviewers;
B - Pre-analysis: After receiving the article, the Section Editor/Special Editor carries out a first evaluation which will focus on the adequacy and relevance of the editorial policy. If the article meets the conditions and is recommended for the review process, the Section Editor/Special Editor submits the article to the Urkund Program to detect plagiarism. If it passes the Section Editor's pre-evaluation, the article enters the blind peer review phase. If not approved, the Section/Special Editor requests the missing documents or communicates to the authors the refusal of the publication.
C - Peer review: The Section/Special Editor forwards the article to two reviewers of the manuscript's area of expertise. These reviewers will evaluate the manuscript and issue their opinion from their reserved area. The final result, based on the specific evaluation tools of the article under analysis, will be expressed as Level A (the article should be published, without changes); Level B (the article can be published with some changes); Level C (the article can be published provided that with the introduction of the changes suggested by the reviewer; the new version of the work requires appreciation); Level D (the article does not meet the conditions for publication).
Whenever there is no agreement between the reviewers' opinions, or in the case of justified doubts, the Section Editor will send the article to a third reviewer for an opinion.
n case of acceptance subject to revision or re-drafting, new dates for the re-drafting and subsequent re-evaluation process will be set.
The opinions will focus, among others, on the following topics
(a) Relevance of the article to the dissemination and development of the respective scientific area;
b) Originality (significant or innovative contribution);
c) Objectives (formulation and adequacy);
d) Accuracy (correctness and precision of concepts);
e) Methodology (adequacy and depth in the approach to the subject; respect for the ethical norms of scientific research and publication);
f) Results (rigor in presentation, analysis, and discussion);
g) Conclusions (innovative or confirmatory knowledge contributed by the study; technical and scientific implications of the study; limitations; future lines of research);
h) Timeliness and accuracy of the bibliography used (accuracy of the citations; precise and rigorous referencing technique);
i) Overall quality of the text (objectives set; logical and balanced structure; clear and coherent exposition; objective and factual style; grammatical correctness and language accuracy);
j) Adequacy to Millenium's editorial policy and norms presented on the Journal's website.
D - Supervision of the Review: After the authors' response to all the reviewers' recommendations, the Section Editor/Special Editor sends the article, if applicable, to the Statistical and Language Reviewers for appraisal. After the opinion of the Section Editor/Special Editor, it is passed to the technical and documental revision.
E - Technical and Documentary Review: Documentation Technicians check the adequacy of descriptors (if applicable) and the normative format of bibliographic references and translators check the language.
F - Final Supervision: The text of the article is checked from a morphological and syntactic point of view. The authors will be informed of the final decision of publication, adding the anonymous opinions of the reviewers, only in those cases in which the Section Editor/Special Editor deems it justified. The final decision for publication rests with the Editor-in-Chief, taking into account the opinion of the Section Editor/Special Editor.
G - Translation: After the decision of acceptance for publication in Millenium, articles written in Portuguese and Spanish will be translated into English, level A, by the author. It is the author's responsibility to ensure a certified translation and to submit the translated version within the deadline stipulated by the journal.
H - Composition, Graphic Design, Layout, and DOI Assignment.
I - Digital dissemination in databases: Document Technicians proceed to the creation of the metadata (HTML, XML, and selective dissemination materials). The articles are available in full text for free access on the journal's web page. They are also sent to all databases, indexers, and dissemination circuits. Monitoring and recording of the article management cycle For internal control purposes, the following will be recorded on the Millennium platform
(a) Code of the article;
b) Date of submission/reception of the article;
c) Date on which the articles are sent to the reviewers for assessment;
d) Date of receipt of reviewers' opinions;
e) Date of acceptance or non-acceptance for publication;
The dates of receipt of the article, revision, acceptance, and publication will appear at the beginning of the article at the time of publication.
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
Millennium, Journal of Education, Technologies, and Health, offers immediate open access to its contents, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public, provides greater global democratization of knowledge.
The journal allows self-archiving in institutional repositories of all versions, which may become immediately available.
ARCHIVING AND DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICY
Millennium, Journal of Education, Technologies, and Health, uses Open Journal Systems, a free open-source system for journal administration and publishing, developed with support and distribution by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) under the GNU General Public License. PKP is a multi-university initiative that develops (free) open-source software and conducts research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing. OJS contains the PKP PN plugin, a means to preserve journal contents in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) which digitally preserves OJS journals. PKP PN ensures that journals that are not part of any other digital preservation service can be preserved for long-term access. PKP enables publishers of OJS journals to digitally preserve their content in a decentralized and distributed way. This means that in case a journal stops being published or goes offline, there will be a way to have continuous long-term access to the articles and issues (preservation for long-term access).
For more information see: https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/
PRIVACY POLICY
The names and addresses provided in this magazine will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication, not being made available for other purposes or to third parties.
DIRECT MARKETING POLICY
Millennium, Journal of Education, Technologies, and Health, magazine does not carry out any direct marketing such as direct mail, telemarketing, direct response advertising to authors or invitations to submit articles. Millenium does not use any direct marketing consisting of promotion, communication activity sent directly to authors or companies to submit articles to issues of the magazine.
It is important to note that not all marketing is good marketing, especially for research journals, direct marketing techniques contain negative elements that impact the field of global authentic research. Millennium believes in authentic research and publishing with a double-blind peer review process.
