Theme and scope

Inter Litteras is an academic journal with arbitration belonging to the Foreign Literatures section of the Instituto de Filología y Literaturas Hispánicas “Dr. Amado Alonso” (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires). Its purpose is to promote debate and offer a space for discussion about different problems related to literature in languages other than Spanish and comparative literature.

It publishes original and unpublished works with the following themes: national literatures, translation studies, poetics, sociology of literature, literature and politics, comparative literature, etc. They can be articles, dossiers, documents or reviews.

Its frequency is annual.

Section Policy

Inter Literas has a permanent open call. The collaborations presented must be original and unpublished and cannot be simultaneously in the evaluation process in another publication.

  • The Articles section considers for publication original and unpublished research works on the topics mentioned in the previous section, always linked to literature in foreign languages.
  • The Documents section will publish translations of sources, short critical comments and essays on the proposed topics.
  • The Dossier section considers for publication sets of up to 8 works with a common theme, related to the objectives of the magazine under a corresponding title and with an introduction.
  • The Reviews section offers reviews of recently published books that stand out for their contributions to the discipline.

Peer review process

The articles and dossiers will be evaluated by external reviewers selected by the Editorial Team following the guidelines of the double-blind arbitration system, keeping the identity of the author and reviewers confidential during the evaluation process to guarantee the quality of the contents. The Editorial Team will do a first review of the originals to ensure correct compliance with the magazine's editing standards. After this stage, the articles will be sent to external referees to evaluate the quality of the contributions. If the evaluations do not match and have discrepancies, the Editorial Team reserves the right to request a third evaluation. Depending on the judgment expressed by those who evaluate, the Editorial Team may accept, request modifications or reject the contribution.

Open Access Policy and Article Processing Charges (APC)

Inter Litteras magazine maintains its commitment to Open Access policies to scientific information, considering that both scientific publications and research financed with public funds must circulate on the Internet freely, free of charge and without restrictions. It adheres to the Open Access model of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) declaration, which is why it provides free, open and immediate access to its online content, without establishing temporary embargoes.

Readers and users in general have immediate access to the materials published in the magazine, and can read them, download them, copy them, distribute them, print them, add links to their full texts, track them for indexing, incorporate them as data in software, or use them for any other legal purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers, apart from those that are inseparable from access to the Internet itself, and with the sole requirement of recognizing the corresponding credits to the authors and the journal as the first publication.

Under no circumstances does this magazine charge fees for receiving and/or processing articles.

The journal adheres to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

The content published in this magazine is distributed under Creative Commons 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC): it can be shared, distributed, adapted or transformed for non-commercial purposes, as long as the authorship of the work and the source are mentioned the original publication in this magazine.

Copyright Notice

Those who publish in this magazine accept the following conditions:

  • The authors [translators] retain the copyright and assign to the magazine the right of the first publication, with the work registered with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which allows third parties to use what is published as long as they mention the authorship of the work and the first publication in this magazine.
  • Authors may make other separate and additional contractual arrangements for 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) as long as they clearly indicate that the work was published for the first time in this magazine.
  • Authors are allowed and recommended to publish their work on the Internet (for example on institutional or personal pages), preferably linking to the first publication.

Code of ethics and good practices

The journal is based on the guidelines of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) adapted according to the uses and requirements of our disciplinary field. In compliance with this code, the journal will ensure the scientific quality of the publications and the adequate response to the needs of readers and authors. The code is addressed to the editorial team, authors and reviewers. Works that do not comply with these ethical standards will be discarded.

Self-archive policy

This journal allows the deposit in repositories, institutional pages or others, of all versions of the article.

Anti-plagiarism policy

Inter Litteras seeks to guarantee that all published scientific works are original and unpublished and have not been previously published in another format, whether in whole or in part. Plagiarism control will be carried out by the Editorial Board through various plagiarism detection programs such as QueText, PlagScan or Plagiarism Checker by Grammarly.