About the Journal

Focus and Scope

2.1 Object and scope of the review.

Disseminate the scientific production of professionals, technicians and other interested people working in the health sector, as well as achieving these results.

Original and revision articles are published, brief communications, presentation of cases and letters to the editor, current news, relevance and results in teaching and assistance areas.

This publication, with bimonthly frequency, covers themes about all the branches of Medical Sciences in the form of original articles, reviews, case reports and others, what has to be contained in the multi-profile.

It is a review by Open Access, official body for scientific dissemination at the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Granma, Cuba.

Multimed adhere to Uniform requirements for submitting manuscripts to biomedical journals: writing and editing biomedical publications (www.icmje.com) and promoting the application of international standards or established practical guidelines, both for the preparation of them manuscripts as for their publication.

This magazine opens its editorial flow to a continuous publication, which will speed up the research communication process and thus contribute to putting the user's disposition into his lectures and citations.

MR uses it to promote transparency in the editorial process and scientific communication, open peer review (OPR).

It promoted the opening of research data and encourages authors to publicly place and reference data that they consider in their research in ways that can be shared and reused, which facilitates transparency and credibility.

MR accepts unpublished articles and documents that have been previously deposited on preprinted servers recognized by the specialty (SciELO Preprints, PMC, MedRxiv).

MISION

The scientific body for the dissemination of medical sciences in Granma is published by the Provincial Center for Medical Science Information with the objective of disseminating the technical scientific information of health professionals in the province. It publishes serial numbers every two months, in addition to supplements of different scientific themes of interest.

PURPOSE

Multimed's publishing policy covers all health professionals (linked to this sector) in the country (especially those belonging to the Granma province) with the need to communicate the results of their scientific productions as well as how to access the misma to managing information, new knowledge, collaborating, updating the relationship whenever the current instructions of the author and their articles are evaluated and approved by the appointed referees provided for discussion in the commission of publications by the Scientific Council and the Editorial Committee.

Multimed intends to motivate specialists and researchers of Medical Sciences to develop and perfect investigations and to solve problems, as well as to increase the knowledge in the branches that occupy them.

Principles

1. Institutional responsibility

A. Declaration. When health information (its activities, missions, organizations, publications) is published in Multimed for public access, there must be a clear responsibility for this content.

B. Razón. Multimed is a serial publication of the Republic of Cuba held responsible for the visibility of the scientific production of the territory, so any information that has to be published must always count on an institutional and professional support in correspondence with this mision.

C. Implications. The documents, images, any resource that has been published in the magazine and that represents any entity in the territory must be accompanied by the best measure possible, by identifying the responsible organization, the person responsible for that entity and that person. information published.

The content of what is published in Multimed about any institution in our province must show clear information about the misfortune of the unit, its corporate purpose, the contact persons to whom it is directed, responsible for the contents of this service, in a way that it falls clear responsibility for what is published.

2. Support, validity and maintenance of information and services

A. Declaration. It is important that the information that is made public in Multimed by users and units is properly supported, maintained and validated by the responsible organization.

B. Razón. The direction of each of the centers in the province or of others in the country must ensure the integrity and authenticity of the information published in Multimed, in a manner that properly represents the organization's information and complies with the current policies and regulations. . Responsibility with published information is independent ofand the growing flexibility of the medium should not be an impediment to its intensive and creative use.

ç. Implications. To guarantee this principle, care must be taken to ensure compliance with the corporate purpose and use institutional spaces to evaluate and authorize publication (responsibility of Scientific Councils). The existence of increasingly flexible tools and guidelines to facilitate the publication process, is not covered by the institutional responsibility for what is published, in accordance with the existing regulations in this area. It is assumed that it is important to clearly delimit institutional publications, even though the publication of documents has individual responsibility, which must be explicitly enforced. Every document must explicitly state its origin, authorship and closing of production.

3. Public character of information

The. Declaration. Any information that is published in Multimedies is of a public nature, and the responsibility of those who publicly ensure that the regulations on public information in force in the country are complied with.

B. Razón. There are very precise regulations on the administration of state information, which establish how to manage misma; respond to current legislation and must be respected by all institutions. The use of the network is subject to these same regulations.

C. Implications. In the red soil it could appear that information that is public for all the institutions and organizations that use it. The institutions are responsible for complying with this principle and must establish the procedures that guarantee their fulfillment.

4. All scientific productions from researchers of national and international health that meet the requirements to be published according to the instructions of the current Authors will be accepted, which will be submitted to an evaluation by designated pairs of arbitrators. by the Editorial Committee of the Magazine, who will review with other editors the total number of approved articles.

5. 15 articles will be selected for each issue to be published and it will be avoided due to the demand-offer for publication in the same number or two months more than one article by a single author, as well as a single theme, even if the aforementioned author may send several work to be analyzed, processed and sent (according to conformity) to other national or international magazines.

6. The magazine will not accept the publication of serial articles from congresses, symposia, talleres, journeys or other scientific activities that its main mission is to promote and highlight in a heterogeneous and multidisciplinary way the scientific and investigative work of the health professionals of the territory .

7. Multimed will offer technical, scientific and professional advice to all those interested, including postgraduate courses, training, training, seniors, conferences and other activities related to scientific publishing activity.

8. The Director of Multimed as a whole with the editors and the commission of publications will decide the diversity and articles of scientific interest to be published with respect to the misery and editorial policy of the magazine, as well as the investigative lines of the province and country. that must be informed to the principal authors in due course of the decisions taken in this regard.

9. The arbitrators will draw up the plots established in the dictations that will be delivered to the Director of MG.

10. The director of CPICM will ensure that each issue of the magazine is available on the website of the province and INFOMED on the site and on the established periodicity.

11. The journal's directorate is not responsible for the veracity of conflicts of any kind that may derive from the content of published scientific articles.

12. The decisions that are taken from the analysis of the scientific articles evaluated by the arbitrators and by the commission of publications that are unappealable and must be assumed by the authors of the articles in the survey.

Types of articles to publish

Original articles, Editorials, letters to the editor, bibliographical revisions, historical articles, teaching support material, brief communication, obituaries, case reports and news. In order to send other classes of material, the MG Editorial Committee must have prior authorization.

Peer Review Process

Peer review process

The impartial, independent and critical evaluation is an intrinsic part of the scientific process and, therefore, must form part of all academic work. The peer review consists of the critical assessment of the manuscripts by experts with similar knowledge that are not part of the Editorial Committee of the Revista Multimed. Peer review helps publishers decide which articles to publish as they assist authors, reviewers and editors to raise the quality of the contributions they publish.

This magazine conveniently uses practices of
Open peer review (OPR) as a mechanism to promote transparency in the editorial process and scientific communication.

This will enable the articles that are submitted to a peer-review process to open, the reviewers and authors to identify their identities, and to be able to perfect the manuscript at the same time.

According to the FOSTER Portal, this model of arbitration will allow greater transparency, speed, reliability, consistency, context and motivation.

Multimed suggested to lectors, authors and reviewers to consult the course of Evaluation by Open Peers, which is located in the FOSTER Portal, in this way we can expand the knowledge about this model of review.

The author is informed of the decision of the Editorial Committee once the evaluation period has ended.

The Editorial Committee corresponds to the final decision on the publication of the manuscript, regardless of the decision of the arbitrators, which is unappealable.

Once the manuscript has been registered, the referral process goes through the review, in which it is held that:

The Review Arbitration Group will be the responsibility of the Editorial Committee.

The arbitrators will adjust to the rules of arbitration adopted by the magazine, from the guide of arbitration.

Specialized arbitrators will be appointed according to the topic that the manuscript deals with.

Open peer review will be carried out.

If the referees do not match their criteria, a third party will be appointed.

A form will be used to define the criteria and arguments of the arbitration. This constitutes the arbitration guide.

The work must be evaluated and the results recorded in the space assigned to this effect in a 60-day period.

Once the result is received, the suggestions of the referees will be reconciled. The Editorial Committee will make the decision to accept the shipment without restrictions, communicate the observations and suggestions made.

The main author will communicate the results of the review, which may be:

Acceptance of the manuscript. In this case, the process of editing and publication will take place.

Return to smaller sets. The authors will have 15 days to proceed with the elaboration of a new version, following the recommendations of the review process and recording it in the space that was found earlier. Once registered, the review process will again take place. If 30 days have not been received, the Editorial Committee can make the decision to extend the closing period for 30 more days, the archiver communicating it to the first author by email. If they are filed and the authors maintain their desire to publish in the magazine deberán register it as a new manuscript, making the comment to the editor in the corresponding space of the first registration step, explaining that it obeys a second version of the work as its title is consignment.

Rejected to larger arrests. The principal author is notified by email of the review considerations and that the work will be archived. It will be made clear that in order to maintain the intention to publish it in the magazine, it must be registered as a new submission, subject to a comment by the editor in the first place corresponding to the registration, explaining that it obeys a new version of the work with its title.

Unconditional rejection. Regarding articles that have been declared as plagiarism or ethical violations.

Open Access Policy

Journal History

This province started publishing bulletins on Pediatrics, Obstetrics and General Medicine, since 1987 and 1989 it was decided to publish in the form of a magazine with the name of MULTIMED, of which a single number was published in a printed format. for known situations in the country's economy. Responding to the need of the medical community of the province to disseminate its scientific production, sale in the light of the MULTIMED Magazine in 1997. Designed for doctors, nurses, technicians and in general for all public health personnel. It provides access to first-hand information, complying with the requirements of our health policy, in order to improve each day in our other health indexes. It is published in electronic support, quarterly and it develops a set of actions directed to offer advice to those interested people to publish. Due to its characteristics, it has been conceived as a magazine that includes all varieties of scientific article and all specialties. It offers original and revision articles, case presentations, innovations and modifications of surgical techniques and sections such as book reviews, news, summaries of home termination work, current events, among others. As a first step, we propose its visibility in the Virtual Library of the web of the Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Celia Sánchez Manduley”. April 1997 with No. 1823, Folio 008, Tomo III, from the National Registry of Serial Publications.