Open science policies

Availability of work data and information

All the data and metadata that support or are a source of the information shown or the findings described in the submitted manuscript must be included in the article as tables, annexes, or accessible in open access, that is, be deposited in a repository public open access, or that are provided as part of the manuscript to be published. The Peruvian Journal of Biology does not allow references to "data not shown". Authors must submit the following data: values behind the means, standard deviations, and other reported measures; the values used to build charts; the points extracted from the images for analysis.

The repositories where the data that supports the work can be deposited must be reliable. They can be thematic and with specifically structured data (for example, GenBank for sequences and PDB for structures), or generalist repositories that accept multiple types of data in suitable formats, or be institutional repositories, as long as they provide persistent identifiers (DOI, Handle), or numbers or access code (LSID) and the data has open access licenses (such as CC BY) as part of the metadata.

Preprint publication

The preprints are the research manuscripts published in appropriate repository servers, before formal peer review in a scientific journal and publication. Preprints can still be published during the peer review process. The Peruvian Journal of Biology considers that preprints are part of the open science paradigm, since they accelerate the process of consolidating knowledge obtained from research, through exposure and participation of the scientific community. Repository servers that allow preprints must be open access, assign a persistent indicator (e.g. DOI) to the manuscript, allow the collection of versions, and interaction with scientists to gather their comments and add them to the different versions. Examples of preprint repository servers are SciELO Preprint (https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo), Zenodo ( https://zenodo.org/), ArXiv (https://arxiv.org/), bioRxiv (https://www.biorxiv.org/), medRxiv (https ://www.medrxiv.org/), ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org/preprint-info ). The Peruvian Journal of Biology invites authors to place their previous versions in these repository servers or those that meet the mentioned characteristics. The authors must inform the details of the preprint publication, indicating the name of the server, the license and the DOI, when submitting the manuscript to the Peruvian Journal of Biology (cover letter). If the manuscript is published in the journal, it is the author's responsibility to ensure that the preprint record is updated with the publication reference in the Revista Peruana de Biología, including the DOI of the published version of the article. . The article published in the Journal will indicate the existence of the preprint and its permanent indicator (for example, DOI).