Central American Journals OnLine (CAMJOL) is a service to provide access to Central American published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship.
What is CAMJOL?
CAMJOL is a database of journals published in Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of CAMJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey. CAMJOL is managed by CNU, UNAH and CBUES and it is hosted by Ubiquity Press. It is also part of the Ubiquity Press Network.
Journals are selected for inclusion on CAMJOL using the following criteria:
CAMJOL provides information on each participating journal, including aims and scope, contact details and general information. It also provides tables of contents and abstracts (where available) for all articles published within these journals. Many full text articles are also available.
All the material on CAMJOL is free to view, search and browse, however copyright of all content is retained by the journals or authors - each journal will need to give permission for any use or re-use of the content that falls outside Fair Use.
CAMJOL is not a publisher: CAMJOL provides a service to the journals by hosting their content online, and actively promoting the website to encourage discovery of these titles and their articles. Individual journals are also using the website to publish their journals and they welcome submissions from registered users.
Privacy Statement
The way in which data is handled by CAMJOL is explained in the Privacy Statement.
How journals can join CAMJOL
If your journal is not included on CAMJOL and you would like to participate, see the criteria for inclusion (in the section "What is CAMJOL?" above), and contact CAMJOL directly - etardencilla@unan.edu.ni
If you would like to recommend new journals for inclusion in CAMJOL, please let us know - we are always looking for more titles.
Services for researchers
The journals are listed alphabetically, to help researchers find journals of relevance, and allow browsing of the journals.
The website has a sophisticated searching tool, to help researchers locate articles of interest and relevance to their area of study.
Email alerts also provide a reminder service, to alert researchers to newly-published issues from their selected titles.
Each journal has its own home page, where researchers can find information about the aims and scope of the journal, and information on how to submit articles to each journal.
Please remember to contact the journals directly if you have any questions for them - CAMJOL is not the publisher of these journals.
History of CAMJOL
Central America Journals OnLine (CAMJOL) was initiated in August 2010. It is now managed by CNU, UNAH and CBUES and it is hosted by Ubiquity Press. It was a project initiated by the INASP. It aims to promote the awareness and use of Central American-published journals in all disciplines by providing access to tables of contents (TOCs), abstracts and full text on the Internet. In 2016 it changed its name from LAMJOL to Central American Journals Online (CAMJOL).
CAMJOL uses the Open Journals System created by the Public Knowledge Project based in Canada. This software is open source and allows the journal content listed on CAMJOL to be indexed through Open Archives Initiative search engines dedicated to research, which harvest the metadata for each journal article, making this work readily available to a global audience, and giving the journals greater visibility among the worldwide research community.
Future plans for CAMJOL
The primary goal of CAMJOL is to facilitate worldwide access to the full text of Central American Journals - either by hosting the full text online or redirecting users seamlessly to existing websites. We envisage CAMJOL providing a range of online full text access models for journals, from complete open access to only subscribed access, with hybrid models of restricted access. On the current CAMJOL system open access to full text is already possible. It is also hoped that the journals on the service will soon begin to allow online submission of articles and that they will conduct the whole editorial process in this online environment.
Disclaimer
While CAMJOL host journals, is takes no responsibility for the content on the journals made available on this site. CAMJOL accepts content from journals in good faith, with the understanding that the material to be placed on the website contains nothing that is libellous, illegal, or an infringement of anyone's copyright or other rights. CAMJOL retains the right to refuse to place any content on the website, and to remove anything that it considers to be either unsuitable or could lead to legal action.
The views expressed on this website are those of the article authors, and do not necessarily represent the views of CAMJOL, or of Ubiquity Press.
Related Projects
Other JOL projects are: Bangladesh Journals Online (BanglaJOL), Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL) and Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL). INASP also developed and managed African Journals Online (AJOL)until 2005, when management was transferred to an African Non Profit Organisation of the same name – see www.ajol.info for more information.
Another project of INASP is AuthorAID which is a global research community that provides networking, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in developing countries.
If you would like further information about these projects, please contact us by email.
Ubiquity Press
CAMJOL website is hosted by Ubiquity Press.
Support for CAMJOL
CAMJOL is grateful to CNU, UNAH and CBUES for their support of this project.
Nicaragua: Erick Tardencilla
Email: etardencilla@unan.edu.ni
Honduras: Patricia Rodas
Email: prodas@unah.edu.hn
El Salvador: Irma López
Email: irma.lopez@cbues.org.sv
Established by INASP in 2012. Managed by CNU, UNAH and CBUES.
Central American Journals Online (CAMJOL) is a service to provide online publication of Central American journals. For more information about CAMJOL and how to join the service, see the About page.
