About the journal

Universum. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is published by the Juan Ignacio Molina Institute for Humanistic Studies at the University of Talca (Chile). Its goal is to stimulate reflection and debate around original research—both national and international—focused on the diverse fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences, with special emphasis on literature, philosophy, history, the arts, and cultural and social studies, as well as to foster the dissemination of the results of such research.

Universum accepts for publication scholarly articles and book reviews written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.

The articles published in Universum are indexed or abstracted in:

  • Scopus
  • ESCI (WoS)
  • SciELO Chile
  • Latindex
  • ERIH PLUS
  • DIALNET
  • DOAJ
  • PROQUEST
  • LatinREV

Universum is a fully open-access journal; all articles are available online free of charge and without subscription requirements, both for authors and readers.