Journal's history

The effort to have the first scientific magazine of the Decanato de Humanidades y Artes of the Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado dates back to mid-2012, when the Desarrollo Humano Program took the initial steps for that purpose.

The professors Gisela Boscán (DH), Francisco Camacho (DH) and Mauricio Iranzo, director of the Desarrollo Humano Program and who designated the first two the responsibility of specifying the project, designed an action plan to stimulate the DEHA professors to that they will participate as authors of the first issue. By consensus, after reviewing a dozen names for the magazine, we chose the name of Mayéutica, remembering the method of the philosopher Socrates to achieve knowledge.

Professors Boscán and Camacho conducted workshops with the teachers of the DEHA for the preparation of scientific articles and essays. Those first efforts paid off, since the collaborations of teachers of the Artes Plásticas (María Fabiana Zapata), Música (Jesús Almao), Psiclogía  (Jesús Manuel Guerrero Alcedo) and Desarrollo Humano (Mauircio Iranzo) programs were received. The editorial was in charge of Professors Boscán and Camacho, while the review was written by Professor Luis Pimentel.

The discussion around the periodicity of the magazine revolved around whether it should be annual or biannual. it was decided by the criterion that it was annual, with the possibility of increasing its frequency of appearance once it grows the stock of collaborations. Likewise, an exhaustive research was carried out by qualified researchers to support us as arbitrators. Their names are left in reserve because the magazine uses the double blind system for arbitration.

Proceedings came before the National Library through the Biblioteca Pío Tamayo  in Barquisimeto, to obtain the Legal Deposit and the International Standard Serial Number. As there was already a registry in the ISSN with the name of Mayéutica, we opted for the Mayéutica revista científica de humanidades y artes, which was accepted. The designer and printer Reinaldo Enrique Rojas offered us a more modest budget than other printers and the possibility of a short print run. A beautiful cover in blue with the name of Mayéutica in degradé gave honor to the first volume of the magazine.

In the spaces of the DEHA was baptized our magazine during the management of Dean Mauricio Iranzo and was designated as "godmother" of the same to Professor Magda Sánchez, for her selfless collaboration in favor of this editorial dream. The teacher Blanca Pulido, from the Música program, offered her talent as a singer in that emotional act in which that first number was baptized with rose petals.

The support of the Consejo de Desarrollo Científico Humanístico y Tecnológico (CDCHT) of UCLA was managed, which then allocated resources for the edition and printing of scientific journals of the University. The financial support was obtained for the first two numbers (2013 and 2014). After that, the magazine has continued to function in a self-sustaining manner, although without the printed version. Thanks to the platform of the Biblioteca Virtual of the UCLA, Mayéutica revista científica de humanidades y artes is published in this institutional space.

The realization of this editorial project occurred in 2013, when the first volume of the magazine came out. Since then, he has maintained his appearance on the virtual platform of UCLA. The initial sections were those of Investigación, Ensayos, Recensiones and Información Científico Cultural. All have been maintained over time, and from the volume II (2014), the section Galería is published, in which the pictorial work of teachers and students of the DEHA and other institutions or outstanding artists is exhibited.

We decided from the beginning to have the figure of a Articulista Invitado for each issue, the first was Mauricio Phélan, sociologist and coordinator of the Índice de Desarrollo Humano project in Venezuela. In the following editions, we have counted on contributions in this section from Professors Diana Rengifo, from the Universidad de los Andes, Teolinda Bolívar, from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Juan Francisco Sans and Mariantonia Palacios, also from the UCV, and from the Venezuelan Carlota Pérez, professor at Technological University of Talín, Estonia; Research associate at Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor of SPRU (Research Center on Science and Technology Policy), University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

The first Consejo Editorial  was made up of Professors Gisela Boscán, Francisco Camacho, Edwin Antiche, Luis Pimentel and Clarisa Quero, all from UCLA. Of them, they are kept in this instance of Boscán y Camacho magazine, and Reinaldo Rojas (UPEL IPB) and Nelvis Acosta (UCLA) have joined. The Consejo Asesor was composed of Professors Reinaldo Rojas, Milagros García (UCLA), Alexis Guerra (UCLA) and Marcos González Pérez (Rude Colombia).

Mayéutica revista científica de humanidades y artes took the step in 2018 to migrate to the Open Jornal System (OJS), along with other 15 scientific journals of UCLA. It is indexed in DOAJ (since 2016), REDIB (2018), and Revencyt (2015). It is also in the repositories of Latindex Directorio, EBSCO, Iberoamerican News and in the catalog of the Biblioteca Virtual de la Universidad Centroccidental Lisnadro Alvarado.  

Francisco Camacho Rodríguez