Open science policies
Open Data – Availability of Data and Research Information
The Revista Peruana de Biología adheres to the principles of Open Science (UNESCO 2021) and adopts a policy that prioritizes reproducibility, transparency, data sharing, and collaboration in scientific publishing. In this framework, we promote the openness of research data in various formats, including digital and analog records, texts, images, sounds, and protocols, whether in their raw or processed form. These data must be freely available for use, reuse, preservation, and sharing, either as part of the main article or in supplementary materials, while ensuring proper attribution to the original source in accordance with the applicable usage license.
When data cannot be included directly in the article, they must be deposited in open-access repositories that comply with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). A list of suitable repositories is available at re3data.org. This policy reflects our commitment to scientific excellence and to the values of equity, justice, diversity, and inclusion, fostering transparency, public scrutiny, citizen participation, and broad reuse of research outputs.
All data and metadata supporting the information or findings described in submitted manuscripts must be accessible. They may be included in the article as tables or appendices, or made available in a public open-access repository. The Revista Peruana de Biología does not accept references to "data not shown." Accordingly, authors must provide key data, such as values underlying means and standard deviations, data used to generate figures, and points extracted from images for analysis.
The repositories used for data storage must be reliable. They may be thematic repositories specializing in structured data (e.g., GenBank for genetic sequences or PDB for molecular structures), generalist repositories that accept multiple data formats, or institutional repositories, provided they offer persistent identifiers (DOI, Handle) or access codes (LSID) and ensure that data include open-access licenses (such as CC BY) within their 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).
