About the Journal
Focus, scope and objectives
OPCION is a publication sponsored by the Department of Human Sciences and by the Research Division of the Experimental Faculty of Sciences of the University of Zulia. It appears three times a year in the months of April, August and December of each year. It is a publication of social and human sciences, with an emphasis on anthropology, communication and information sciences, philosophy, linguistics and semiotics, development problems, science and technology. The Editorial Committee may decide to expand its thematic areas in the social sciences, according to the demand that arises in this regard. It is financed by the Scientific, Humanistic and Technological Development Council (CONDES). OPCION Magazine publishes original works with advances or research results; reviews is Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian or English, reviews and summaries of completed research or recent publications, essays, quick communications, letters to the editor, technical notes, news, reviews, documents, as well as interviews. All refer to the areas published by the magazine.
Its objectives are:
1.- Stimulate research in the areas of Human and Social Sciences and contribute to their scientific progress, through the dissemination of research results in these fields of knowledge.
2.- Become an editorial space where the most advanced ideas in the aforementioned scientific areas can be confronted and discussed.
OAI interoperability protocols
Political Questions incorporates interoperability protocols that allow the magazine to be collected by other content distribution systems. It supports this process through the OAI-PMH protocol (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) https://www.produccioncientificaluz.org/index.php/opcion/oai, which allows the transfer of digital resources of a scientific nature and free access.