About the Journal

APPROACH AND RANGE

This is a biannual legal journal, whose purpose is the investigation, analysis, and dissemination of legal sources and activities related to the public administration of the autonomous community of Andalusia (Spain), not excluding studies or documentation related to other powers, institutions, or problems of this autonomous community or other public administrations for their impact on the scope of interests of the Junta de Andalucía. 

In 1989, the University of Seville and the IAAP (Andalusian Institute of Public Administration) signed an agreement and copublished the journal's first issue, at the time called Public Administration. Andalusian Journal of Public Administration (RAAP). This journal will be an instrument for disseminating academic and doctrinal work that the University considers necessary to promote constitutional and administrative law. It will also be useful to discuss and solve relevant problems of Andalusian public administrations. RAAP deals with the legislative changes of direct application and with jurisprudence related to these changes as a result of the activity of Andalusian courts.

RAAP was created in pursuit of making the most of our universities' human and scientific resources, addressing issues that have not been enlightened by doctrinal discussion, or that require new ways of study that consider the reforms introduced to the new administrative entities, and providing approaches of innovative analysis appropriate to the information society and the new challenges that social changes bring to us.

From the beginning, this journal has never stopped trying to promote and disseminate scientific and documentary works of all Andalusian universities. An example of this is the publishing volume available, over 100 issues yet. Since 2005, they have been available, the first 50 issues excepted, in the IAAP digital documentary collection.

A new agreement was signed in 2023. As a result, the new title of this journal is simply Andalusian Journal of Public Administration (RAAP), it has been given a new boost and changes have been made in the publishing process (see BOJA of May 31, 2023, in Spanish).

With this project we start a new stage of online editing for the IAAP electronic journals using the open-source software Open Journal System (OJS). This new tool allows us to read scientific and research papers published from issue number 51 up to the present, in keeping with the properties of universal accessibility of information which the academic society demands from us.

Here is the link to the archive area of the journal, where the issues from 2003 (number 51) to the present can be found:
- Archive of the RAAP journal

ETHICAL COMMITMENTS

Andalusian Journal of Public Administration agrees with the ethical standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices), which has the following implications:
The authors undertake to respect the evidence and not alter the original data in order to verify or refute the initial hypotheses. They accept that the submitted works are original and recognize the authorship of the sources used. When submitting an article, the author declares that its essential content has not been published nor will it be published in any other work or journal while it is in the evaluation process. The authors undertake to mention all those researchers who have contributed to the article.
The reviewers will only carry out their task if they consider themselves competent in the subject they are proposed to evaluate. They will carry out an objective, technical and constructive review of the article. They undertake to comply with deadlines and follow the journal’s review guidelines.
The editors undertake to keep anonymity throughout the editing process, for which they are ultimately responsible. They will ensure the intellectual integrity of the process. They will avoid any type of conflict of interest.

OPEN ACCESS AND FUNDING POLICY

RAAP follows the Open Access (OA) journal movement and delivers all of its content to various national and international indexes, repositories and databases according to this protocol. Therefore, submitting a work to be published in RAAP presupposes explicit acceptance by the author of this distribution method.
RAAP is financed exclusively by the IAAP budget of the Department of Justice, Local Administration and Civil Service of the Andalusian Government. Consequently, there is no article publication charge, or any other fee charged to authors to cover the costs involved in the publication process.

ANTIPLAGIARISM, PRESERVATION AND ARCHIVING POLICY

Authors are responsible for ensuring that the information contained in their article is original and has not been copied, invented, distorted or altered, as well as for consensus in the event of shared authorship. Plagiarism in any form is considered unethical and will be grounds for initial rejection or immediate withdrawal of those published texts in which it is detected. Texts received by RAAP may be submitted to Turnitin for a content similarity detection service in order to guarantee their originality.

Preservation. PKP Preservation Network (PN). This journal uses PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) to digitally preserve published issues. Each new published issue is automatically harvested, being archived once it is validated. Issues from the historical archive are also incorporated as they are reviewed. PKP offers perpetual uninterrupted access and preservation of the authentic original version of the content.

LOCKSS and CLOCKSS. The journal also uses OJS support for LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), developed by the Stanford University Libraries (SUL), to license the storage and distribution of the journal among collaborating libraries. Furthermore, the IAAP is the depository, and maintains the RAAP archive and preserves the files in accordance with current legislation on the preservation of information of the Spanish public administration, in accordance with article 21 (Application of information and communication technologies in the management and processing of documents) of Royal Decree 1708/2011, of November 18, which establishes the Spanish Archive System and regulates the Archive System of the General State Administration and its Public Agencies and its access rules.

Self-archiving. Regarding self-archiving policies, RAAP allows the author to archive the postprint (i.e. the final version after it has been peer reviewed) or the publisher’s/PDF version. Consequently, RAAP is a RoMEO (rights metadata for open archiving) blue journal.

Archiving formats. RAAP is currently published in digital and hard-copy formats. For the sake of a wider dissemination of content and broad compatibility with reading devices, it is currently distributed in PDF format. The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present and exchange documents reliably, independent of software, hardware or operating system. Developed by Adobe, PDF is now an open and official standard recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). All contents (articles and list of authors), as well as the complete issue, can be consulted in PDF.