Policy on Research Data Deposit

Revista Información Científica (RIC) recommends that authors deposit their research data in reputable, discipline-specific, or universal repositories. In all cases, the repository must be FAIR (Finding, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) and open access.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to publish their work online (for example, in institutional electronic archives or on their website) before and during the submission process, which can lead to interesting exchanges and increase citations to the published work.

There are various repositories designed to store and disseminate specific data, such as survey results, observations, interviews, simulations, automatically collected data, models, among others. SciELO Data is suggested, although the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data, or DataCite Commons can be consulted, keeping in mind that each repository has its own deposit rules.

The deposit can be made before and during the proposal submission process, and even by publishing the final PDF version (postprint) of your article published in our journal in several repositories, always citing the source, without any embargo period. This can lead to interesting exchanges and increase citations to the published work.

If this initial step has been taken, it must be mentioned in the article, providing a brief description of the type of data deposited, the name and URL of the repository, the identification code, and the license details for use and distribution. This information must appear at the end of the article, after the References, under the heading "Supplementary Files (Open Data)."

If, on the other hand, the author has not made a deposit, they may authorize RIC to deposit their research data in open access on Zenodo or on the journal's website; this must be stated in writing to the journal's editor.

Zenodo is a general-purpose open access repository developed at the initiative of the European OpenAIRE program and operated by CERN. It provides a DOI, albeit limited, ensuring durability, authenticity, and facilitating interoperability between systems.