Open Science Policy

IX. Open Science Policy

Revista Biomédica firmly adheres to the global Open Science movement. Our goal is to democratize biomedical knowledge, ensure universal access to public health and research, and increase the transparency, reproducibility, and impact of science.

Revista Biomédica does not charge any fees for article processing, peer review, or publication. All content is available digitally, free of charge, and immediately in full text from the moment of publication. No registration, payment, or subscription is required to read, download, copy, distribute, print, or link to the full texts of the articles.

Authors retain copyright in their works and grant to Revista Biomédica the right of first publication. All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

To ensure the reproducibility and transparency of biomedical science, Revista Biomédica adopts the FAIR Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable):

- Data Availability: Authors are requested to deposit raw data, databases, analysis codes, and supplementary materials that support the conclusions of their article in trusted public repositories (such as the UADY Institutional Repository).

- Declaration of Availability: Each accepted manuscript must include a mandatory "Declaration of Data Availability," indicating where and how the data can be accessed, or providing a legal or ethical justification for why it cannot be made public (patient privacy, anonymization).

Revista Biomédica aligns with the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA):

- The value and impact of published articles will be assessed based on the intrinsic scientific merit of their content.

- The journal promotes the use of article-level metrics (such as downloads, individual citations, and altmetrics) rather than relying solely on the Journal Impact Factor.

All authors and researchers submitting a manuscript must provide their registered and up-to-date ORCID identifier.

Each published article will have a unique digital identifier (DOI) permanently assigned to ensure its location, preservation, and accurate citation over time.

The OJS platform uses the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol, which allows article metadata to be automatically harvested by international search engines and repositories.

Disclaimer:

From January 1999 to May 2016, Revista Biomédica retained copyright; however, from September 2016 to the present, the authors retain it.

Revista Biomédica has used the phrase "Copyright © [Year] authors and Revista Biomédica" since 2016, and the authors have retained full copyright since then. However, the phrase should be "Copyright © [Year] authors" and will be included in the PDF files of manuscripts published from September 2026 onward.