Copyrights, Conflict of Interest and Ethical Commitment Avances en Ciencias e Ingenieria (ACI)

 
Copyrights assignment
Author assigns all the rights of the contribution to Executive Business School (EBS), for its exclusive use by only submitting his/her work and being published in the Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería Journal. These copyrights assignment implies that no matter what the different countries rights, languages and forms of communication may be, EBS shall be the sole owner of them. EBS guarantees the right to reproduce the contribution in any book in which you are the author, subject to granting the corresponding credit in the book to the original publication of the contribution in Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería. This assignment allows EBS to disseminate and release his/her work to the international scientific community, in the manner it deemed appropriate for both the institution and author, always preserving the integrity of the author and EBS. Author guarantees that his/her contribution is original; its content does not contravene any norms or legal issues in other countries and it does not infringe the property rights or copyrights, being the author of the work the solely responsible; EBS shall not accept any liability or detriment for any claim. The submitted work must have no copyrights which had been transferred to other journals. The information contained in the manuscript (concepts, citations, used expressions, opinions, etc.) as well as the use of the same, is the solely responsibility of the author. Should any plagiarism, data manipulation or any other type of misconduct for a publication is found, the work shall be removed from ACI’s data base. A communication will be sent to author and the institution he/she belongs to reporting the situation.  
Conflict of Interest
In general it can produce conflict of interest, if the author has any financial relationship with any one or more companies (as an employee, consultant, owner, and other fees). There may also be conflict of interest if you have some kind of personal, academic or intellectual competition that could affect the preparation of the manuscript. As the authors to submit papers for consideration for publication in Advances in Science and Engineering, must inform and / or recognize the existence of some kind of conflict of interest, whether economic or otherwise, that may affect or be a bias in the manuscript. It is the author’s responsibility to inform EBS existence of conflict of interest, and shall declare it when you submit your work. EBS is not responsible for the accuracy of the information provided by the authors, so it is exempt from any liability for any situation that may arise. It is important to specify the financial aid received (institutional or other external bodies) or personal, that have made possible the realization of the manuscript (this must be indicated in the Acknowledgments).  
Ethical Commitment
The work submitted to the journal publication process must have not been published before or currently being considered to be published in other journals (according to the established in Copyrights Assignment). Authors must send a letter that confirms his/her work is original and that it has not been considered or published in other journal. In the presentation letter, which is addressed to the Chief Editor, apart from making the work submitted presentation for possible publication in the journal, the following text shall also be included: «The author of this work guarantees that the contribution has not been published before in any other place, in whole or in part, and no publishing deal has been made in any other place. Therefore, the manuscript presented herein to be submitted to the respective process in the Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería Journal is original and complies with the established in Copyrights Assignment as provided by the journal». This Ethical Commitment and presentation letter shall be signed by the author responsible for the publication (on behalf of the authors of the work).  
Open Access Policy and Use Licence
This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle of making available free research (content published in this journal) to researchers, academics, students and the general public in order to spread knowledge exchange globally. The journal therefore adheres to the Budapest Initiative (BOAI-Budapest Open Access Initiative) on the right of open access to scientific communication, which is also in line with the Berlin declaration. Regarding the license to use the articles, it is stated that the contents of Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería (Open Access) are protected under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. This means that the material published by the magazine can be distributed, copied and exhibited by third parties if the respective credits are given to the magazine. No commercial benefit can be obtained and the derivative works must be under the same license terms as the original work or the license to use the articles. This license allows others to distribute, to mix, to adjust and to build from his work, even for commercial purposes, as long as it is recognized the authorship of the original creation.