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Open Access Policy
Open Science Policy
Usage Licenses
Data Deposit
Digital Preservation
Indexing
Advertising Policy
Peer Review Policy

 

 

Open Access Policy

The "Arturo Peña Lillo" Scientific Journals Portal of UNLa promotes "diamond" open access policies in which content is available in full text, freely and at no cost on the Internet, without embargo periods, and where the editorial production costs are not transferred to authors or readers. As noted by cOAlition S and Science Europe, diamond open access journals are editorial initiatives driven, directed, and managed by the scientific and academic community itself, and funded by universities, scientific societies, or research institutes under non-commercial models.

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Open Science Policy

The journals that make up the portal encourage open science policies, such as the deposit and opening of primary research data, open innovation, the use of Creative Commons licenses, and alternative metrics. In line with the "UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science," open science policies combine "various movements and practices aimed at making multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible to everyone, and reusable by all, enhancing scientific collaborations and information exchange for the benefit of science and society, and opening the processes of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation, and communication to social agents beyond the traditional scientific community." In this sense, stimulating open science policies implies fostering situated, contextualized science that seeks the disintermediation of processes, the adoption of open and inclusive technological infrastructures, greater transparency and agility in review processes, and the opening of primary data within a framework of equitable collaboration.

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Usage Licenses

The journals that are part of the portal distribute their content through Creative Commons licenses CC BY 4.0 (Attribution 4.0 International) or CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International).

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Data Deposit

Funding agencies increasingly require beneficiary teams to deposit raw research data in suitable public repositories to facilitate the preservation of datasets, validation of results, and potential reuse. Therefore, it is promoted that the journals included in the portal adopt a data deposit policy to promote and facilitate the deposit of research datasets in specialized repositories (e.g., SciELO Data) before their publication, so that the full citation of the deposited data can be included in the article. When it is not possible or viable for the data to be openly available due to confidentiality or sensitivity issues, the deposit is made with restricted access, ensuring controlled preservation in the future.

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Digital Preservation

The institutional portal performs the digital preservation of its content through the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), which ensures that journals have access to a long-term digital preservation service for their content.

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Indexing

El portal promueve y colabora con los cuerpos editoriales para la indización de las revistas en bases de datos de bibliografía científica como Latindex Catálogo, Bibliografía Latinoamericana en Revistas de Investigación Científica y Social (Biblat), Dialnet, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas, SciELO Argentina, Scopus y/0 Web of Science. The portal promotes and collaborates with editorial bodies for the indexing of journals in scientific bibliography databases such as Latindex Catalog, Bibliografía Latinoamericana en Revistas de Investigación Científica y Social (Biblat), Dialnet, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas, SciELO Argentina, Scopus and/or Web of Science.

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Advertising Policy

The "Arturo Peña Lillo" Scientific Journals Portal of UNLa, following the guidelines of the National University of Lanús, recommends not including online advertisements. If the institution agrees and accepts that a journal may include advertising, the journal must explicitly state the policies adopted for including advertisements. Following the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, advertisements must be clearly identifiable as such, must not overlap with editorial content, and the responsible persons for the journals must have control and the ability to approve the advertisements to enforce the advertising policy.

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Peer Review Policy

Each journal adopts the external review process that best suits its editorial policies (double-blind, single-blind, or open review) and details the steps and procedures for selecting, accepting, or rejecting submitted articles. According to the Latindex Glossary, external review is defined as "the critical evaluation of manuscripts submitted to the journal, conducted by experts who are not part of the editorial board." A "double-blind" external review is one in which both parties (reviewers and authors) do not know each other's identities; a "single-blind" review is one in which one party is known to the other (e.g., reviewers know who the authors are or vice versa); and an open review is one in which both parties know each other's identities, and the signed reviews are made public (Latindex Glossary).

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