Institutional Support
Until 2024
Institutional Support
- Institutional support for Producción Científica LUZ, its portal of open-access scientific journals.
Institutional Support
Universidad del Zulia (LUZ)
One of Venezuela's oldest public universities, founded in Maracaibo in 1891, with 11 faculties and a portal of 39 open-access scientific and humanistic journals.
- Location
- Venezuela
- Founded
- 1891
- With Innova
- Until 2024
- Status
- Concluded
About the institution
The University of Zulia (LUZ) is a public university in Maracaibo, Venezuela. It was established by decree on May 29, 1891, began operating that September, was closed for political reasons in the early twentieth century and reopened on October 1, 1946. It has campuses in Maracaibo and Cabimas (Zulia State) and in Punto Fijo (Falcón State), and about 28,000 students.
LUZ is organized into eleven faculties covering agronomy, architecture, arts, sciences, economics, veterinary medicine, law, humanities and education, engineering, medicine and dentistry. Its scientific output is published through RevicyhLUZ, the Portal of Scientific and Humanistic Journals, which runs on Open Journal Systems and hosts 39 open-access journals such as Opción, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Investigación Clínica and Revista Venezolana de Gerencia.
Programs offered
Main academic areas and faculties.
- Faculty of Agronomy
- Faculty of Architecture and Design
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Sciences
- Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences
- Faculty of Veterinary Sciences
- Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
- Faculty of Humanities and Education
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Dentistry