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PUBLISHING STANDARDS
Ethical standards
The editors of Revista FAVE Sección Ciencias Agrarias are committed to carrying out a fair and objective assessment of manuscripts, ensuring to meet the expectations of the authors who choose us to spread their research. Every participant in the process towards the publication of an original manuscript, namely the authors, the editors, the reviewers and the editorial institution, bear responsibility for following the ethical rules throughout the publishing process, thus valuing the researchers’ contributions.
The journal abides by the “open-access” publication model of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI):
http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/
Revista FAVE Sección Ciencias Agrarias is committed to the open-access scientific publishing, in which the contents of scientific publications are available online in their complete version entailing no temporary charges or restrictions and no editorial costs to the authors. This policy aims at breaking the economic barriers that generate inequities in the access to information and in the publication of research results.
The content is licenced under CC BY-NC-SA . 
1 . Ethical expectations
Editorial responsibilities
The editors of Revista FAVE Sección Ciencias Agrarias suggest that the authors follow the ethical rules that characterize responsible research and that they present their results with clarity and honesty, without falsification or inappropriate manipulation of information.
It should be mentioned that the Editorial Board is constituted by members who are recognized experts in their fields, whose affiliation and contact information are accessible at the following institutional website https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/FAVEAgrarias/
Honesty, scientific and editorial quality, transparency and privacy are the ruling principles that guide our journal, and it adheres to the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (COPE), subject to PEMS (Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement requirements).
Revista FAVE Sección Ciencias Agrarias is a continuous publication.
Reviewing responsiblities
The reviewers should contribute to improving the quality of the manuscripts under assessment, acting objectively and in a reasonable lapse of time. The information provided should remain confidential, and they should not copy or keep these manuscripts. Besides, they should put the editors on alert about possible academic fraud, and they should warn the editors and return the manuscript if there are any conflicts of interests.
Authorship responsibilities
The authors should adhere to the requirement for submitting an original unplagiarized manuscript that has not been presented or published in another journal, bearing responsibility for the manuscript reviewed and published. Self-plagiarism is not accepted. Besides, they should declare possible funding sources and possible underlying conflicts of interests.
The authors who contribute articles to Revista FAVE Sección Ciencias Agrarias tacitly transfer non-exclusive rights to the journal. This transfer becomes effective at the time when the author receives written confirmation of acceptance of the manuscript for publication. The intellectual property of the manuscript stays with the author (or authors) with no copyright restrictions. If copyrighted material is included in the text, the authors bear responsibility for conferring its full attibution to the Editorial Office.
The authors should cooperate with the editor in the production of an “errata sheet” or in manuscript rejection in case of detecting serious errors.
The authors should ensure that the studies involving human subjects or animals adjust to the national, local and institutional laws and requirements (for example, the WMA Declaration of Helsinki, the NIH Grants Policy Statement on the use of laboratory animals, or the EU Directives on the use of animals) and confirm that approval has been required and obtained when necessary. The authors should obtain express permission from human subjects and respect their privacy.
Editorial responsibilities
The editorial institution should have a reliable and secure repository to store and protect historical and unfinished contents for the authors, reviewers and possible interested readership. It should also have a safe and updated platform that guarantees a transparent and reliable editorial process.
- Procedures to face unethical misconduct
In case there is suspicion concerning the originality of the manuscript, the Editorial Board will corroborate the existence of plagiarism in the manuscript. If it is confirmed, the manuscript will be returned to the author, with no possibility of resubmission.
Different measures will be taken in case of plagiarism or any other inadecuate research conduct, as follows: inform or make the author/s and editors aware of the acceptable standards, warn them clearly for future situations, make the research misconduct public knowledge, give formal notification to the institutions of origin, among other stronger measures.
The editors will facilitate the publication of any corrections, clarifications, retractions or apologies when appropriate.
3 – Assessment process
All submitted manuscripts will be considered for publication by the members of the Editorial Board, who will check their scope and compliance with the Instructions for Authors. The manuscripts will be subjected to external evaluation.The editors will reject and return the manuscripts to their authors without being reviewed when they do not follow the Instructions for Authors provided by the Journal.
In addition, plagiarism detection will be carried out to verify that the manuscripts are original. Editors of FAVE Sección Ciencias Agrarias use free software such as Plagius, Plagiarisma, Duplichecker or other similar as a tool to verify all work received, contrasting it online with other published academic articles, books, conference documents, dissertations, other academic content and web pages for guarantee its originality. The web-based tool is used in the editorial process to identify the matching text, but not by itself to identify plagiarism. Therefore, a manual examination of the corresponding text is subsequently carried out and editorial judgment is used to identify the occurrence or not of plagiarism. The early detection of plagiarism helps to familiarize the authors with the ethics of the publication and to reduce the workload of editors and reviewers in the face of possible ethical problems.
In case of detecting a high incidence of plagiarism, the material will be returned to their authors. The Editorial Board will take reasonable measures to identify and prevent the publication of manuscripts produced with inadecuate research conduct, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, falsification of information, among others, and will thus follow the rules established by COPE.
The admitted manuscripts will be subjected to external evaluation through the double-blind system before being accepted for publication. The members of the Editorial Board will select the reviewers for each manuscript among experts in the corresponding research field.
Two reviewers will assess the scientific quality of each article and recommend that the manuscript be accepted as is; accepted subject to substantial modifications, in which case the manuscript will have to go through the peer-review process again, providing feedback to the authors; accepted subject to minor modifications, in which case it will only be reviewed by the Editorial Board; or rejected. When reviewers’ recommendations disagree, the Editorial Board will send the manuscript to a third reviewer, who will determine the manuscript’s destination.
Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the Editorial Production Unit will generate a file with the galley proof, which will be sent to the first author for analysis. This process should not exceed one week.
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Publishing preservation policies
The content of FAVE Sección Ciencias Agrarias is preserved in different digital media, daily and weekly.
Backup copy on hard disks
Two disks configured with a RAID 1 schema are used. Another copy is made on a remote backup copy server that is in a physical location different from where the main SPP server is located. This copy is made every 12 hours, without compression and / or encryption.
Magnetic tape backup copies
There are two schemes: daily and weekly backup copies.
Copy of daily receipt on magnetic tape: Every 24 hours, a copy of the total backup of the SPP is made. For this process there is a total of 18 different magnetic tapes in a rotating scheme. A magnetic tape is used per day, and the magnetic tape that has the oldest backup copy is overwritten. It gives a total backup time of up to 25 days back.
Copy of weekly receipt on magnetic tape: Every Saturday, another copy of the complete receipt is made on magnetic tape. For this purpose, there are 10 magnetic tapes in a rotating scheme. Each new backup copy is made on the magnetic tape that contains the oldest copy, which gives a total backup time of up to 64 days back.
The files on magnetic tape are stored in zip format and compressed by the backup copy management system. In case of an eventual failure of the reading / writing equipment of magnetic tapes, we resort to two reading and writing equipments that can be exchanged.
The magnetic tapes of the daily and weekly backup copies are stored inside a fireproof container (safe).
Copy of database backup: a copy of the daily backup (dump) of the system database and a copy of the backup of the complete database engine with recovery capacity is applied to failures of up to 5 minutes prior to the fall. In addition, the database server is replicated on two nodes that have RAID 1.
LOCKSS: FAVE Sección Ciencias Agrarias uses the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system that guarantees the journal a permanent and secure archive. LOCKSS is an open source program developed by the Stanford University Library and allows libraries to keep selected web journals by regularly searching registered journals to collect new published content and archive it. Each file is continuously validated with records from other libraries, so any damaged or lost content can be restored using those records or the same magazine.
Interoperability
Our magazine is managed by the Open Journal Systems (OJS) version 3. It is an open source solution for managing and publishing academic journals online.
Some of the tools allow you to export to third-party systems, such as DOAJ. Others allow you to import or export user data or articles.
The system provides OAI-PMH protocols for automatic harvesting by any harvester with similar protocols. OJS offers a variety of tools and add-ons that allow you to inject and extract OJS data. In addition, OJS has add-ons that allow you to export article metadata to external sites and indexing services that are compatible with its format.
FAVE Sección Ciencias Agrarias uses the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol that allows the transfer of digital resources, to be collected by other distribution systems. The OAI-PMH server URL for FAVE Sección Ciencias Agrarias is https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/FAVEAgrarias/oai
