Open access policies, archive, rights and copyright

Open access, use, reuse and archive.

The Spanish Journal of Transparency is committed to free access and unrestricted use of its information and digital resources. The open access policy is materialized in:

  • Free, free and universal access.
  • The authors and the journal grant any potential user the right to use, copy or distribute the content in an unlimited and irrevocable manner, with the sole condition of recognizing the authorship.
  • The electronic documents corresponding to the content of the Journal are included in digital format to allow free access.
  • Published articles can be included in repositories and freely disseminated without restriction (color Romeo Blue).

The contents of the journal are subject to the License Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Internacional License (CC BY-SA 4.0)
You are free to:

  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

 Under the following terms:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

  • ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

 

Copyright.

Without prejudice to the provisions of the Revised Text of the Intellectual Property Law, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996, of 12 April, and in accordance with the same, the author(s) assign(s) the rights to disseminate, reproduce, communicate and distribute, in any current or future format (paper or electronic), to the Revista Española de la Transparencia, free of charge, on a non-exclusive basis and without any time limit.


By sending the submission, the author declares that the essential content of the same has not been published and will not be published in any other work or journal while it is in the process of evaluation in the RET journal, undertaking in any case to immediately notify the RET journal's management of any project to publish the text, and expressly citing the journal in the new project.

Without prejudice to the assignment made, the author maintains the right to self-archive the author's final version after peer review or the editor's final version in any of its formats in open access institutional repositories and self-archiving platforms, providing a link to the published document in its platform whenever possible.

Digital preservation.

The LOCKSS system has been enabled so that libraries have permission to collect, save and distribute the archived content of the Spanish Journal of Transparency.

The LOCKSS system offers digital preservation services, in open source, with the aim of providing and permanently preserving access to digital content generated through our publication. In addition, it allows to share digital content in a secure way among the participating libraries.

Additionally, the digital pre-reservation policies that complement the LOCKSS system are the following:

  • Physical copies of file security are saved.
  • There is a backup in the cloud of the contents of the Journal.
  • Access with privileges to the RET platform is restricted and controlled.
  • The content manager of the Journal is constantly updated.

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