About the Journal

The journal Memories of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud. is the official body of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud (IICS), of the National University of Asunción (UNA), for the publication of scientific papers. In this journal original contributions in the area of ​​health such as: clinical medicine, biomedical research (application of biology and physiology to medicine), microbiology, molecular biology, dentistry, nursing, nutrition, public health, biotechnology in health, Genetics, Biochemistry and other areas related to health, are published and are available on an electronic platform for scientists from Paraguay and the world. As of the year 2023, it adopts the article publication system in continuous flow, without a pre-established periodicity with one volume and one number per year.

The IICS - UNA, began the publication of its scientific works in printed form in 1983 in the journal denominated IICS: Revista, which lasted until 1986. Then, in 1989 as Publicaciones. From 1990 to 1998 the journal was published as Annuals Reports and since 2002 it has emerged as Memorias del IICS and since 2005 has also been published in printed and electronic form. As of 2015, it is published exclusively in the online version.

The abbreviation of its title is Mem. Inst. Investig. Cienc. Salud., which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, legends and bibliographical references. Pre-published or pre-printed articles (preprint) are accepted on servers with that methodology.

The journal is indexed in: BVS, SCIELO PARAGUAY, HINARI, LILACS, REDIB, DOAJ, Latindex, Miar, Dialnet, CiteFactor, Google Scholar, BASE, Web of Science = SciELO Citation Index.

LANGUAGE: Articles published in Spanish and English are received.

OBJETIVE

Evaluate and publish high-quality scientific works in the area of ​​health sciences, which help solve relevant problems in the different disciplines of this science.

MISSION

Publish and disseminate scientific topics in the form of original articles, current affairs, case reports, short communications, review articles,  letters to the editor, from national and international researchers, from the health area, which are available at an electronic platform for scientists from Paraguay and the world.

PLAGIARISM DETECTION

To detect plagiarism in works sent to the journal, the PlagScan program is currently used https://www.plagscan.com/es/.

SUBSCRIPTION

All materials published in this journal are freely available and free of charge to the authors. Provides immediate open access to your content. All content of IICS Memories is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

INTEROPERABILITY

The journal Memories of the Health Sciences Research Institute of the HEALTH SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (IICS) of the National University of Asunción (UNA), incorporates the OAI-PMH interoperability protocol (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that allows the collection of metadata by other distribution systems.

Route for harvesters: HERE

DIGITAL PRESERVATION

The Memorias del IICS Magazine uses the LOCKSS system https://www.lockss.org/, to create a distributed storage system among participating libraries and allows the creation of permanent files in the magazine for conservation and restoration purposes.

The backup of the OJS information is carried out on a daily basis, incremental and differential type, which allows access to all the modified or deleted information.

This magazine preserves all the documents it publishes electronically in different formats, allowing digital access to the documents and future transfer when necessary.

If the equipment fails due to damage, breakdown or other incident, the journal has a backup server with the same configuration as the downed service. This allows the replacement of the equipment that presents the faults. In addition, there is a data synchronization system from the backup server to the backup server.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Authors own the rights to their manuscripts.

All content in this magazine, except where identified, is licensed under a BY Attribution Creative Commons License.

The publication of the journal is financed by: Institute for Research in Health Sciences (IICS-UNA). http://www.iics.una.py

All materials published on this site are freely available, free of charge and at no cost to the authors. This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle of giving the public free access to research. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other legal purpose, without requesting prior permission from the publisher or author. These terms are established in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)statement. 

Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other legal purpose, without requesting prior permission from the publisher or author. These terms are established in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) statement.