Open access policies

Open access policies, copyright and use license

THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho is committed to promoting the diffusion of legal and jurisprudential knowledge in a wide, immediate and free manner, making available to the general public, researchers, legal professionals, students and other interested parties, the complete content of its publications.

THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho adheres to the principles and Open Access policies established in Budapest (2002) (BOAI 10), Berlin (2003) and Bethesda (2003); and considers that:

Open Access is fundamental to guarantee that legal knowledge, which is essential for exercise rights and the construction of a fairer society, is accessible to everyone without any economic restriction.   

  • Open Access encourages research and new knowledge production by enabling fast and free consultation of published publications.
  • Open Access facilitates legal knowledge application in the resolution of social problems and contributes to making informed decisions.
  • The Open Access publication is aligned with international scientific communicative standards and encourages the collaboration between investigators of different countries  

THĒMIS Revista de Derecho will provide: 

  • Free access to all their content available online without any subscription or payment.
  • Creative Commons CC By 4.0 licenses for articles that allow their reuse, distribution and modification, as long as the original source is cited.
  • Digital preservation of all the contents to guarantee a long term conservation of all the articles. 
  • Visibility and dissemination by ensuring the indexing of their articles in international databases.  

THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho, as part of their Open Access Policy, do not will charge any publication fee to the authors (APC).

  • Adopting the Open Access Policy, THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho reaffirms their compromise with academic excellence and the diffusion of legal knowledge for the benefit of society. 

Use License policies and Copyright

THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho © 1969 by Asociación Civil THĒMIS is licensed by Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

You are free to:

  • Share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, including commercially.
  • Adapt, remix, transform and build from the material for any other purpose, including commercially.
  • The licensor can not revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the terms of the license. 

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution: You must give credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. You can make it in any reasonable way, but not in a way that suggests that you or their use have the licensor support.  
  • No other additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from making any use permitted by the license 

The authors retain their rights: 

  • Authors retain their trademark and patent rights, as well as any process or procedure described in the article.
  • Authors retain the right to share, copy, distribute, perform, and publicly communicate the article published in THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho (e.g., place it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho.
  • Authors retain the right to make an afterwards publication of their work and reuse the article or any other part of it (e.g., a compilation of their work, notes for conferences, thesis, or a book), as long it indicates the source of publication (work authors, journal, volume, number and date).