Other policies

Editorial Ethics Policy

Neuropolis sciences journal follows the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in order to comply with internationally accepted ethical protocols.

Responsibilities of authors with Neuropolis sciences journal

Authors agree to:

Submit completely original articles.
- Present truthful and reliable data. Empirical data have not been modified to change the results.
- Correctly reference extracts from other authors; papers that are not properly referenced will not be accepted.
- Do not include excerpts from previously published works. Articles that do not comply with this section will be rejected.
- Commit to what is stipulated in the Assignment of Rights Form, declaring your acceptance by signing it.

Responsibilities of reviewers to Neuropolis sciences journal

Reviewers must fulfill the following commitments:

Certify that they have the necessary knowledge to carry out an objective and constructive evaluation of the assigned work and that there is no conflict of interest with the assigned article.
- To issue reports with suggested recommendations for acceptance, rejection or suggestions for improvement of the work to be published.
- Comply with the article evaluation protocol and evaluation rubric.
- Evaluate the papers, respecting the time of the editorial processes, delivering the evaluations within the established deadlines.

Responsibilities of the editors with Neuropolis sciences journal

Among the main responsibilities of the Editorial Team are:

Preserve the confidentiality, discretion of the data of the submitted papers, the references of the authors, as well as of the reviewers, in order to maintain intellectual integrity throughout the process.
- To supervise the compliance with the development times of the tasks in the review, evaluation and publication processes.

Fee Policy

Neuropolis sciences journal does not charge an APC for original articles that are published. In addition, the review, editing and publication of articles is free of charge to the authors. Each issue of Neuropolis sciences journal is distributed using high-quality free media, allowing readers full access to the publications without cost or restrictions, as specified in the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Open Access Policy

Users may make use of the text in its entirety, either to download, store, or print it, as long as it is non-commercial and citing the original source and the authors are acknowledged in accordance with the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

-LICENSE

Based on the criterion that the knowledge published contributes to the exchange as scientific heritage of humanity, Neuropolis sciences journal is an open access journal. Published articles are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International).

You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

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.
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

See terms: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Neuropolis sciences journal is a journal that uses Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open access journal manager and has software developed, financed and distributed free of charge by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP).

-READERS

As Neuropolis sciences journal is an open access scientific journal, it allows any reader to share and distribute the published material under the conditions specified in the CC BY-NC 4.0 license in any format and use free of charge. In any mode of use, it is only required to credit the original publication, provide a link to the license, and indicate changes and modifications. Once the corresponding issue is published, along with the other issues, it will be available to the public for reading and downloading.

-AUTHORS

The Universidad del Caribe (UCaribe)  as the Publisher of Neuropolis sciences journal  shares with the authors the rights over the published works and assures them the preservation and availability of the published content. Authors are allowed to use, display, disseminate and distribute under the terms of this license, CC BY-NC 4.0 using the version published in Neuropolis sciences journal, and providing the reference of its publication.

Neuropolis sciences journal adheres to I40C standards for open citations to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data. Each citation is expressed in common (APA standard), machine-readable formats and can be accessed programmatically Citation instances can be accessed and analyzed without the need to access the source bibliographic products (such as journal articles and books) in which the citations are created. The data are freely accessible and reusable.

Plagiarism policy

All articles received through the OJS platform of Neuropolis sciences journal will be submitted to plagiarism detection using the tool (https://www.turnitin.com/).

If plagiarism or other unethical practices are detected, the paper will be immediately disapproved and will not continue with the evaluation process, the author will be sent the decision of rejection to be published.

Archive preservation policies

The digital preservation policy of the Neuropolis sciences journal, aims to permanently safeguard and preserve access to the digital content it produces, so it has the following means of preservation:

Internal preservation.

Local backup copies are made fortnightly on external disks and on the servers of all the information.
Backup copies are generated in the cloud of all content after each publication.

External preservation

LOCKSS: https://revistas.ucaribe.edu.pa/index.php/nsj/gateway/clockss

CLOCKSS: https://revistas.ucaribe.edu.pa/index.php/nsj/gateway/clockss

Interoperability protocol

The Neuropolis sciences journal uses the OAI-PMH protocol, which can be verified at the following link:

https://revistas.ucaribe.edu.pa/index.php/nsj/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc