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Open Science

Open Science Policy

The journal Apuntes del Cenes promotes the values and guiding principles of open science as defined in the recommendation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):

Principles

  1. Transparency, scrutiny, criticism and reproducibility. The journal has an open access policy, declares the diamond open access route and follows a double-blind peer review process, which strengthens the rigor of scientific results, enhances their positive impact on society and increases the ability to solve problems related to the thematic spectrum defined in its scope.
  2. Equal opportunities. The journal allows access to publications at no cost, ensuring that authors and readers have the same opportunities to access, contribute to and benefit from science, regardless of their origin or circumstance.
  3. Responsibility, respect and accountability. The journal is aware of the public responsibility, intellectual integrity and possible conflicts of interest and social or ecological consequences of research results, follows ethical principles, requests authorship statements according to CREdiT methodology, data availability statements and defines processes to identify and address allegations of research misconduct, or to make additions and corrections, retractions, concerns, requests or complaints, as established in the journal's ethics policy.
  4. Collaboration, participation and inclusion. The journal allows access to its publications on the web in English with the support of the OJS portal, in addition to being indexed in different databases, in order to contribute to scientific collaborations that transcend geographical, linguistic and resource borders.
  5. Sustainability. The journal is financed by the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) and is supported by the use of the OJS platform, which allows it to carry out its processes efficiently and financed in the long term.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The journal adheres to the “Manifesto on Science as a Global Public Good: Non-Commercial Open Access” and therefore, it is published under a license with Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) in open access diamond path, providing for its immediate publication without charge for authors and readers.

Authors are urged to deposit the final versions of the articles in institutional or thematic repositories, maintaining the persistent URL (with DOI) of the journal and it is suggested to promote them in all possible electronic media and academic networks.

Intellectual property and terms of use

The journal allows authors to maintain the intellectual property rights of their manuscripts and accompanying materials, requesting to extend to the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) a license to distribute, communicate publicly, transform for purposes necessary for university management and heritage conservation with due acknowledgment of authorship.

For this reason, the author has the right to share, copy, distribute, execute and publicly communicate the article in its published version, as well as to make a subsequent publication in a compilation of works, notes for conferences, theses or books, as long as he/she indicates the source of the publication (authors of the work, journal, volume, number, date and DOI).

 

Persistent identifiers policy

The journal has a policy of persistent identifiers at article level through the granting of DOI, at author level through ORCID and whenever possible it is requested to register identifiers at institution and funder level through ROR in order to facilitate the semantic control of its records, enrich data analytics and transparency in the conflict of interest.

Openness of journal metadata

The journal makes its metadata available to the academic and scientific communities through the interoperability of its infrastructure, through an Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. Our platform follows the OAI-PMH protocols and facilitates the harvesting of bibliographic references through automatic bibliographic reference managers.

 

 

Responsible metrics for scientific publications

This journal welcomes the recommendations of the “San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment” (DORA Declaration) on the measurement of science and understands its fundamental role in the conformation of knowledge networks and consolidation of the fields of knowledge, therefore explores metrics related not only to the circulation of its publications, but also in the conformation of networks of authorship, co-authorship and co-citations, territorial scopes (communities within the country), regional (Latin American communities) and international networks that are formed after publication; as well as the centiometric measurements in relation to the contribution of the publication to the conformation of research paradigms, participation in the conformation of discussions in the frontier of knowledge and that which is related to the conformation of the field of knowledge.

 

Open access policy for research data

Apuntes del Cenes recognizes the importance of open access to research data and considers it an integral component of the scientific ecosystem. This policy applies to research data shared by the author that would be needed to verify the research results described in the article, as well as related metadata and methods. The availability and open access of these data enables and facilitates:

- Responsible ethical environments in journal publication.

- Reproducibility of research and scientific transparency.

- The visibility of the results and the recognition of authors, producers and curators of data from the citation and linking of research data and their associated articles.

- Their use for validation, replication, reanalysis, new analyses, reinterpretation or inclusion in meta-analyses.

- Optimization of efforts to ensure data archiving, increasing the value of the investment made in funding scientific research.

- Reducing the burden on authors to preserve and search for old data.

- Management of data access requests.

 

Definition of minimum data set

The journal defines research data as data produced by the authors (“primary data”) and data from other sources that have been processed and analyzed (“secondary data”). These data can be presented in various forms: [datasets, spreadsheets, text documents (interview transcripts), software source code, images or videos].

The journal invites authors to share the minimum set of research data that would be necessary to reproduce the research results described in the manuscript, as well as related metadata and methods.

Authors who choose to share research data are encouraged to consult the Instructions for Authors for additional information on specific guidelines for preparing, recording, and depositing research data before submitting a manuscript for consideration.

 

Exceptions to the policy

This policy shall be limited by legitimate exceptions regulated by law, for example, in relation to professional confidentiality, trade and industrial secrets, personal information or copyrighted content. Research data that are not necessary to verify published results are not covered by this policy.

Authors are not required to submit their entire data set if only a portion of the data was used in their research. Nor do they need to submit the raw data collected during an investigation if the norm in the field is to share data that have been processed.

The policy does not require public sharing of quantitative or qualitative data that can identify a research participant (“personal data”), unless participants have given their consent. The policy also does not require public sharing of other sensitive data, such as the location of endangered species.

 

As alternatives to public sharing of sensitive or personal data we suggest:

- Deposit research data in controlled-access data repositories.

- Anonymize or de-identify data before public sharing.

- Share only metadata about research data.

- Indicate procedures for accessing research data in the manuscript and handle requests for access to data from other investigators.

Additional materials (as supplementary information)

The journal discourages sharing research data as supplementary information files to the study under consideration; authors are encouraged to deposit data directly into appropriate data repositories.

When including data in files or supplementary information material, authors should submit files in formats that are standard in their discipline and that allow wide dissemination. If no standards currently exist in the discipline, authors should maximize data accessibility and reusability by selecting a file format from which data can be efficiently extracted (e.g., spreadsheets are preferable to PDFs or images when providing tabular data).

 

Data Repository Deposit

The journal invites authors who choose to share their research data and metadata supporting the reported findings, before submitting the manuscript for peer review, to deposit these data in public data repositories, which enhance discoverability and accessibility, ensure long-term preservation, and generate greater research attention.

 

Data Citation

The journal officially endorses the Joint Statement of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP) and adopts the data citation roadmap for scientific publishers developed by the Publishers Early Adopters Expert Group as part of the Data Citation Implementation Pilot (DCIP) project, an initiative of FORCE11 and the BioCADDIE program of the Nationa Institutes of Healths (NIH). Dataset citations, when listed in the reference list, should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite and follow the journal's style.

The journal encourages authors to cite in their reference list any publicly available research data underlying their publications. References to data sets (data citations) should include a persistent identifier (such as a DOI).

Data Availability Statement

The journal encourages authors to include a Data Availability Statement in manuscripts reporting results derived from research data. This Statement should include information on where the data supporting the results reported in the article can be found, report the name of the repository, how to obtain access to them, and provide a permanent identifier (such as DOI) to the data analyzed or generated during the study.

When research data are not publicly available, this should be stated in the manuscript, along with the conditions of access to the data.

In the event that an author cannot make his or her data publicly available because of specific ethical or legal restrictions that prohibit open access sharing of the data, the Data Availability Statement should include an explanation of the reason and indicate how other investigators can access the data.

 

Data formats (and metadata) and standards

Research Data

The journal encourages authors to share research data using data formats and standards and metadata that are open and recognized by their research community.

The journal prefers that research data be shared in open file formats (those that do not require proprietary software to access) whenever possible. For example, tabular data should be shared as .CSV files rather than .XLS files. See FAIRsharing.org for more information on established data sharing formats and standards.

Metadata

Descriptive metadata should be structured using recognized standards (at a minimum, Dublin Core). Standards can be disciplinary or generic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Core).

The journal recommends the use of “controlled” (or reference) vocabularies for metadata, whether disciplinary or generic (e.g., to reference an author https://orcid.org; to reference a place https://www.geonames.org).

 

Data Reuse

The journal requests that research datasets be useful and reusable by others, to this end authors are encouraged to comply with data sharing standards and align with the FAIR Data Principles.

Data management plans

The journal encourages authors to prepare Data Management Plans (DMPs) prior to conducting their research and encourages them to make these plans available to editors, reviewers, and readers who wish to evaluate them.

The following resources can also be consulted for guidance on DMPs: Digital Curation Centre, DMPTool and Data Stewardship Wizard.

 

Citation of research data

In addition to the data references included in the Data Availability Statement, when the materials on which the research article is based are available from an online source, authors should include a full citation in their list of references.

References to cited datasets should include a persistent identifier (such as a DOI) that allows readers to directly access the source, i.e., an online repository.

Dataset citations, when listed in the reference list, should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite and follow the style of the journal. Authors are encouraged to use the DOI Citation Formatter for citation.

For example: Authors (year): Title. Place of publication. DOI (handle)

Andrikou C, Thiel D, Ruiz-Santiesteban JA, Hejnol A. Active mode of excretion across digestive tissues predates the origin of excretory organs. 2019. Dryad Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bq068jr