About the Journal

Scope and Topics:

Currently, its objective focuses on the dissemination of original and innovative research in the social field, both nationally and internationally. Submissions are accepted across four fundamental areas:

  • Social Work, Social Services, and Social Intervention: welfare state, social vulnerability, social inclusion, social exclusion, social policies, and applied sociology.
  • Labour Relations & Employment: human factors at work, organizational behavior, people management, sustainability at work, labour market, employment law, sociology  and psychology of work, and occupational welfare.
  • Social Economy & Third Sector: cooperatives, non-profit organizations, and community development.
  • Cross-Disciplinary Studies and Social Challenges: gender and equality studies, migration and diversity, the digital divide in social services, and public policy impact evaluation.

Submissions are accepted from the following disciplines: Social Work, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Psychology, Social Education, Legal Sciences/Labor Law, and Economic and Business Sciences applied to the work environment.

Official Channels and Social Media:

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Official Website: https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/ais/es/index

eISSN: 2340-4507

ISSN: 1132-192X

Peer review process

Peer-reviewed and double-blinded.

Open Access policy

Acciones e Investigaciones Sociales is an open access journal, so all content is available free of charge and at no cost to the user or their institution. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without seeking prior permission from the publisher or author. 

It is part of the Diamond Discovery Hub registry. The DDH is a platform that compiles journals operating under the Diamond Open Access (Diamond OA) model and has awarded this recognition to the journal.

Acciones e Investigaciones Sociales is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0

 

Digital preservation policy

The journal applies the digital preservation policy: PKP Preservation Network (PN). Available at https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2340-4507

 

Use of interoperability protocols

Regarding the use of interoperability protocols, OAI is applied, available at https://www.openarchives.org/

URL for harvesters: https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/ais/oai

 

Journal history

Acciones e Investigaciones Sociales is the scientific journal of the Faculty of Social and Labor Sciences of the University of Zaragoza (Spain). It arose with the following objectives: to support the research activity of teachers, to establish a common forum for communication and debate between teachers and researchers from the different Departments and Areas of Knowledge with representatives in the Center, and to expand this communication, finally, with other Universities that were researching similar topics.

The coordination falls on the Editorial Committee, made up of representatives of the different Departments represented in the Center.

The journal has, since 2013, an annual periodicity.

The journal has not revenue sources, and does not use advertising nor direct marketing activities.

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Copyright and Self-Archiving Policy Platforms:

  • Dulcinea: Exploitation rights and self-archiving permissions for Spanish scientific journals

  • Sherpa/Romeo: Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving