Focus and Scope
The website Chemkeys (at www.chemkeys.com) has been available to the public since October 1996. It contains teaching materials and reference texts for teaching chemistry and related sciences. Since its launch, all articles have been published in Portuguese, although some of them also have been written or translated into Spanish. Books authored by Brazilian University Professors were also published on this site, until 2011. The Chemkeys website remains active at the same web address, but the publication of articles paused in 2011 while seeking new funding resources.
Among various alternatives, in 2019, the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) Library System was receptive, being interested in not only welcoming the collection already available, but also encouraging new publications. In view of this, by the end of September 2019, all articles and books already published on the Chemkeys website were transferred to the Portal of the Scientific, Academic and Educational Electronic Journals Incubator (InPEC, at https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/chemkeys) and to the Open Books Portal (at
https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/omp/index.php/ebooks/catalog/category/quim) of the UNICAMP Library System. To accomplish this action, a new Journal Title, namely the Revista Chemkeys (ISSN 2595-7430) was created, which became a continuous publication Journal, with e-location and DOI registration from this date on. The focus continues to be the publication of teaching texts for use in higher education courses in Chemistry and related sciences.
As previously, the submitted articles are only published after an appropriate didactic-scientific evaluation. The Chemkeys Journal, although prioritizing the dissemination of subjects related to teaching chemistry at the higher education level, can also evaluate articles with content for secondary.
Periodicity
Since its 2019 edition, this Journal is being published as a continuous publication.
Open Access Policy
This Journal offers immediate free access to its content under the Creative Commons license, following the principle that making didactic-scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater worldwide democratization of knowledge.