Open Science Policy

Revista de Comunicación y Salud (RCyS) adheres to the principles of Open Science as a framework for promoting universal access, transparency, dissemination, collaboration, and the ethical reuse of scientific knowledge. This commitment is developed in accordance with national and international recommendations on best practices in scholarly communication and with the principles of accessibility, interoperability, research integrity, and responsible openness.

Open Access

Revista de Comunicación y Salud is a Diamond Open Access journal. All its scientific content is made available online immediately, free of charge, and on a permanent basis, with no article processing charges (APCs) for authors and no access or subscription fees for readers.

The conditions governing access, use, reuse, and the licenses applicable to published content are specifically established in the journal’s Open Access Policy and by the Creative Commons license corresponding to the publication period of each article.

Copyright ownership and the management of rights relating to published works are addressed separately in the journal’s Copyright Policy.

Research Data and Materials

RCyS promotes the responsible availability of the data and materials underpinning published research.

Authors are encouraged, where appropriate and whenever ethically and legally permissible, to deposit research datasets, instruments, code, supplementary materials, or other research outputs in trusted institutional or disciplinary open-access repositories, preferably those integrated with or interoperable with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

When these materials are made publicly available, they should include sufficient metadata to facilitate their discovery, understanding, and reuse and, whenever possible, follow the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

The openness of research data and materials shall always be subject to compliance with applicable legislation, personal data protection requirements, confidentiality obligations, informed consent, research ethics principles, and third-party rights. Accordingly, RCyS follows the principle of responsible openness: as open as possible and as closed as necessary.

Methodological Transparency and Reproducibility

The journal promotes clear and sufficiently detailed descriptions of the methodological designs, procedures, instruments, and analytical techniques used in published research.

Authors are encouraged to provide the information necessary to enable the understanding and evaluation of their research and, where the nature of the study allows, the verification or reproduction of research procedures and results.

Persistent Identifiers and Interoperability

Articles published in Revista de Comunicación y Salud are assigned a persistent Digital Object Identifier (DOI), facilitating their identification, discovery, and citation.

The journal also promotes the use of persistent identifiers to improve the identification, disambiguation, and traceability of the different actors involved in scholarly communication. In particular, it encourages the use of ORCID for author identification and, whenever possible and where the relevant organization has been assigned such an identifier, links institutional affiliations through the Research Organization Registry (ROR).

RCyS also promotes the interoperability of its content and metadata through exchange and harvesting standards and protocols, including OAI-PMH, facilitating their retrieval, identification, and reuse by repositories, directories, databases, aggregators, and other scholarly information systems.

Preservation, Reuse, and Research Integrity

Specific provisions concerning the long-term preservation of content, its deposit, and reuse, as well as best practices in research integrity, are set out in the journal’s corresponding editorial policies:

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Revista de Comunicación y Salud promotes diverse, equitable, and inclusive scholarly communication, supporting a plurality of perspectives and participation across the academic community, regardless of geographical or institutional background or other personal or social characteristics.

Editorial decisions are based on academic, scientific, and ethical criteria, with the aim of preventing any form of discrimination, bias, or exclusion in the evaluation and publication processes. The journal also promotes best practices aimed at fostering equality, diversity, and collaboration within its editorial teams and processes, in accordance with the principles of Open Science.

RCyS’s commitment to Open Science strengthens the quality, transparency, and relevance of the knowledge generated in the field of communication and health and seeks to contribute actively to a more accessible and ethical scientific community committed to collective well-being. Accordingly, RCyS periodically reviews its policies and procedures to ensure that they remain up-to-date and aligned with evolving national and international best practices in Open Science and scholarly communication.