Open Sciencie Policy

Docencia y Derecho adopts and promotes the principles of Open Science in accordance with the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The journal understands Open Science as a framework aimed at ensuring transparency, accessibility, collaboration, and social responsibility in the production of knowledge, fostering more efficient, reliable, inclusive research with greater societal impact.

In line with these principles, the editorial team implements policies that ensure openness at all stages of the publication process, while preserving academic rigor and compliance with international ethical standards.

1. Open Access and Licensing

All content is published under immediate open access, with no embargo periods or access restrictions.

Articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, allowing reading, downloading, distribution, and public communication in any medium, provided that proper credit is given to the authors and the original source, the work is not modified, and it is not used for commercial purposes.

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, as well as authorization to disseminate the work in open access under the specified license.

2. Research Data Availability

To promote transparency and scientific reproducibility, authors are required to deposit the data supporting their research in recognized open-access repositories prior to publication. The manuscript must include a link to the deposited dataset.

The use of trusted repositories such as Zenodo, Dryad, Figshare, or institutional repositories that ensure digital preservation and permanent access is recommended. If ethical, legal, or confidentiality restrictions apply, authors must explicitly justify any limitations on data access.

3. Supplementary Materials and Other Research Outputs

Additional materials that contribute to the understanding, verification, or reproducibility of the study—such as databases, instruments, code, extended tables, figures, or multimedia resources—must be made available in open repositories and linked in the published article.

The use of persistent identifiers (such as DOIs) is encouraged to facilitate citation, retrieval, and traceability of associated materials.

4. Article Dissemination and Versioning

The journal allows and promotes the responsible dissemination of research outputs. Authors may deposit preprint versions or the accepted manuscript (postprint) in institutional or thematic repositories, provided that the final published version in the journal is properly and clearly cited.

This policy aims to foster academic exchange, early visibility, and the impact of research results, while preserving the integrity of the scholarly record.

5. Transparency in Peer Review

The journal applies a double-blind peer review system, ensuring impartiality, confidentiality, and scientific quality.

Although an open peer review model is not implemented, the journal periodically publishes the list of reviewers who have contributed during each editorial period, without linking reviewers to specific manuscripts.

6. Interoperability and Metadata Standards

Published articles include structured metadata according to international interoperability standards, such as Dublin Core and the OAI-PMH protocol, facilitating their harvesting by repositories, indexing systems, and academic databases, thereby ensuring greater visibility, preservation, and international dissemination.