The contribution of «History of Education & Children’s Literature» (HECL) to a recent international workshop on the scientific journals of history of education

The article reproduces the text of the report presented at the Workshop on the journals of History of Education, held on the 26th of February 2015, as part of the Symposium of History of Education of Valladolid (Spain) and organized by the journal «Espacio, Tiempo y Educación» on the topic: La Pedagogía ante la Muerte. Reflexiones e interpretaciones en perspectivas histórica y filosófica. In it, the author analyses a number of issues related to the role played by scientific journals in the strengthening and internationalization of the research in the field of history of education. A particular importance, among the various debated topics, was given to the models of editorial management of the journals and their effects on the forms of scientific production, to the role of the social networks in the promotion of these same journals, to the procedures for openaccess and free-access publication, to the indexing in the major international databases, such as ISI Web of Science by Thomson Reuters or SCOPUS by Elsevier, and finally to the editorial choice to focus on English monolingualism or to enhance multilingualism, publishing articles in different languages.