About the Journal

Focus and scope.

Revista M is a publication of the Faculty of Architecture of Santo Tomás University, Bucaramanga, with continuous edition since 2003. It was born with the aim of projecting in the academic scenario, the thought, and actions of the professional work of the architect's trade and its related professions, through the publication of results of the research, analytical, critical and purpose exercise of the discipline. Revista M is aimed at an audience made up of professionals and students involved in architecture, urban planning, and urban and regional planning matters.

Currently, Revista M has an annual circulation and publishes original and unpublished articles in Spanish and/or English, the result of scientific research. Reflection articles resulting from research and bibliographic review articles that contribute significantly to the state of the art of a topic that is of interest in the academic field of architecture and related disciplines are also received for publication. All published articles are submitted to peer review by academics with a well-known academic trajectory at the national and international level.

Then again, the main scientific area to which the M Journal is ascribed according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is:

Major Area: Humanities (6)
Area: Art (6D)
Discipline: Architecture and Urbanism (6D07)

 

Open Access Policy

The Revista M is an open access publication for all users. This is taking into account the definition of open access by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), where users can: read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of articles or use them for any other legal purpose, without asking for prior permission from the publisher or author.

On the other hand, the authors of the works accepted for publication assign the economic rights to the Revista M for the total or partial reproduction of the work published in electronic media such as websites, indexes, and directories, among others, provided that its purposes are academic and non-commercial.

Therefore, all the material is available digitally on the journal's OJS platform , as well as in the institutional repository of Santo Tomás University, guaranteeing permanent, free and immediate access to all articles under the principle that guaranteeing the free availability of research for the interested public fosters a greater exchange of knowledge on a global scale.

Finally, all contents of Revista M, unless otherwise noted, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

 

Historical Overview

The first issue of Revista M was published in January 2003 under the title "Globalization in Architecture", alluding to the Forum of the same name held by the Colombian Society of Architects (SAC) in May 2002 in the city of Bucaramanga. In this first issue, seven articles by renowned academics of the city were published, as well as the Manifesto of the Architects of Santander, a document that intended to establish the position of the professionals of the department in the face of the new policies presented that same year by the State for the regulation of the work of the profession. The magazine took the letter M for its title precisely in allusion to said Manifesto. And so it was that within the Colombian context the M Magazine was presented at that time as one of the few means of dissemination of research in architecture, urbanism and urban planning of the Colombian regions produced outside Bogotá.

Since its inception, Revista M has had a Scientific Committee and an Editorial Committee, both with extensive research experience both in the national and international academic field. The work of these committees is supported by the editorial team of the publication, which in turn receives the support of the Research Group of the Faculty of Architecture of the USTA Bucaramanga (GINVEARQUI), and together they are in charge of guaranteeing the transparency and quality of the published material.

On the other hand, since its creation the journal has the International Standard Number of Serial Publications, ISSN 1692-5114. Furthermore, since 2016, the journal also has the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), dx.doi.org/10.15332/rev.m., as well as with the digital ISSN 2590-7883 since it has been available digitally in its entirety since November 2015 on the Open Journal System (OJS) journal platform of the Universidad Santo Tomás (Bucaramanga).