Open access policies and copyright

Open Access and Copyright Policy

The Minerva Journal adheres to the principles of the international Open Access movement established in the Budapest Open Access Declaration. 
This declaration stipulates that there will be no technological or economic barriers to accessing the journal's content. In other words, it guarantees
 the free, irrevocable, and worldwide right to access, copy, use, distribute, transmit, display, print, adapt, and create derivative works, with 
appropriate attribution to the author. Furthermore, it provides access to a full version of the document and its supplementary materials, indicating 
permission for its use in electronic format and its deposit in institutional, academic, or governmental repositories.

All articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Copyright. The authors retain copyright and grant the Minerva Journal the right of first publication, as well as the right to edit, reproduce,
 distribute, display, and communicate the work in Ecuador and abroad through print and electronic media. Furthermore, the authors assume responsibility
 for any litigation or claims related to intellectual property rights, releasing the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Educational Sciences and the 
Minerva Journal from any liability. It is also established that the authors may eventually enter into other independent and additional contractual 
agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (e.g., including it in an institutional repository
 or publishing it in a book), provided they clearly indicate that the work was first published in this journal.