Data Sharing, Reproducibility and Open Science Policy
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Data Sharing, Reproducibility and Open Science Policy
Open Science Objects
Ecos de la Academia promotes the deposit, publication and linking of open science objects associated with scientific articles. Open science objects may include, where applicable, datasets and data dictionaries, research instruments, research and review protocols, review registrations, data management plans, supplementary materials, software, code, scripts and reproducible workflows.
These objects must be deposited in institutional or specialised repositories appropriate to each type of resource, such as the Universidad Técnica del Norte Digital Repository, Zenodo, Open Science Framework (OSF), Figshare, Dataverse, or code repositories that allow versions to be preserved and identified. The journal will include references and links to associated objects in published articles.
Open science objects necessary to examine the methods, results or reproducibility of research must be deposited and published before the manuscript is sent for peer review, provided that their public dissemination is ethically and legally permissible. Where justified restrictions exist in relation to the confidentiality of double-blind peer review, personal data protection, third-party rights or research ethics, authors must provide restricted access to the editorial team and reviewers, where appropriate, or submit a reasoned statement explaining the access restrictions.
When an open science object could compromise the confidentiality of double-blind peer review, access will be managed through restricted mechanisms or anonymised versions, provided that these are technically, ethically and legally feasible. Publicly available information must not reveal the identity of the authors during the evaluation process.
Each object must have its own descriptive title, different from the title of the article, together with information identifying its authors or responsible parties, version, repository, licence or access conditions, and DOI or other persistent identifier, where available.
Authors must declare in the manuscript which objects have been generated or used, where they are deposited and how they relate to the research. Where no additional objects exist, this may be explicitly stated. The licence applicable to each object will be that specified in its own record or deposit and will not be presumed to be the same as the licence of the article.