{"id":3479,"date":"2019-10-23T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2019-11-27T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T12:25:15","slug":"tropical-medicine-infectious-and-parasitic-diseases-journals-align-with-open-science-editorial-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/2019\/10\/23\/tropical-medicine-infectious-and-parasitic-diseases-journals-align-with-open-science-editorial-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Medicine\/Infectious and Parasitic Diseases journals align with open science editorial practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Adeilton Alves Brand\u00e3o, Benedito Barraviera, and Dalmo Correia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pressed by the need to facilitate access\nto published articles and broadly disseminate scientific advances to all\nstakeholders, the international scientific community has promoted, since the\nlast decade of the 20th<\/sup> century, several initiatives that resulted\nin changes in the way scientific journals publish articles, as well as the\nstructure and organization of the scientific editorial environment. These\ninitiatives also spelled out the urgency of implementing practices that result\nin more transparent editorial processes, with a direct impact on the so-called quality\n\u201ccertification\u201d of scientific manuscripts through peer review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These initiatives have been identified as\nthe Open Science movement whose scope, which already included researchers and\nvisionaries from the publishing midst \u2013 such as open access publishing pioneers\nwho created online journals with publication charges rather than library subscription\nfees \u2013 over the last 20 years, has also included science funding agencies\nthemselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, funding agencies are now\ndemanding more transparency from everyone who receives their resources \u2013 open\naccess to published articles, wide dissemination and data sharing \u2013 besides\naccountability, integrity and alignment with best scientific practices. This\nmovement, which originated in the US-UK axis and is practically consolidated in\nthe main scientific knowledge generating countries, has recently started to be\nassimilated by research institutions and funding agencies in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faced with this scenario of changes and\nchallenges for everyone involved in scientific research results dissemination,\nthe SciELO Program, an Open Access pioneer in Brazil, could not exempt itself\nfrom its responsibilities as organizer, supporter and promoter of a network of scientific\njournals from 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal\nand South Africa. Therefore, SciELO has defined in its priority lines of action1<\/sup>,\napproved at the celebration of its 20 years of operation, the adoption of best\npractices of open science for years to come, encouraging and promoting the\nalignment of its journals with this movement to provide more transparency, increase\nsharing and open access to the research results they publish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a first step, some initial measures have\nbeen established to be implemented by the journals, namely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n