About the Journal


Focus and Scope

Primeiros Estudos - Revista de Ciências Sociais is a biannual scientific electronic publication organised by students in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH/USP). Its aim is to stimulate and bring undergraduates from all over the country closer to the daily production and publication of articles, reviews and translations on topics linked to the three major areas that make up the Social Sciences programme, namely: Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology.

Frequency

Primeiros Estudos operates on a continuous basis.

Anti-plagiarism policy

The journal adopts procedures that include the use of the iThenticate plagiarism prevention tool to guarantee the originality and integrity of publications, as well as additional checks carried out by the editorial board and through guidelines for referees.

Open Access Policy and Licence

This is an open access journal, which means that all the content is available free of charge, at no cost to the user or their institution. Users are authorised to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other legal purpose, without seeking prior permission from the editor or author. This is in accordance with BOAI's definition of open access.

Creative Commons License

The work published in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence which allows the work to be shared with acknowledgement of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

2. Authors are authorised to enter into additional contracts separately for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (e.g. publication in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with acknowledgement of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their personal website) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this can generate productive changes, as well as increase the impact and citation of the published work.

Funding Sources

We received support from the departments of Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo.

Our History

The initiative to create a scientific journal for undergraduates in Social Sciences came from a group of students at the University of São Paulo, who got together around the idea of promoting and giving visibility to the research carried out by undergraduates. The idea was presented to the professors, who immediately welcomed the initiative.

After meetings to articulate support and define the scope of the journal, Primeiros Estudos was officially founded on November 24, 2010, at an event organized by its Executive Committee. The event marked the opening of the first call for papers, and was attended by professors from the Undergraduate Committee of the Social Sciences course at FFLCH/USP.

One of the distinguishing features of Primeiros Estudos was the fact that it was published electronically and free of charge, betting on the use of the Open Journal System (OJS) to manage and publish content on the internet, a platform that was still in its infancy in 2010 in Brazil. The gamble proved fruitful: in addition to OJS being the software recommended by CAPES for electronic publishing, in 2012 the Technical Department of the Integrated Library System (SIBI/USP) relaunched USP's scientific journal portal using OJS. In partnership with the IT Technical Section of FFLCH/USP, they began the project of training editors in OJS with the appropriate technical support. Primeiros Estudos has been part of USP's journal portal since its launch on October 22, 2012.


During the editorial process for issue 3 of Primeiros Estudos, other events contributed to consolidating the project. Humanitas, the FFLCH/USP publishing house, took over the editing and layout of our issues from then on. The Translations section began to count on the financial support of the three departments of the Social Sciences course at FFLCH/USP to obtain the copyright for texts suggested by lecturers for the subjects taught at the undergraduate level. Finally, the institutional recognition of Primeiros Estudos as an official journal of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH/USP), approved by the faculty's congregation on September 27, 2012. From issue number 3, the Executive Committee became the Editorial Board.