Open access policy and fees
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The Journal of Practical Echocardiography and Other Cardiac Imaging Techniques - RETIC is open access to all its content. It is not necessary to register or request prior permission to access immediately from the moment of publication to full-text articles, without embargo periods with the aim of increasing the dissemination of research and knowledge sharing. Our readers can read, download, copy, print or link to the full-text articles without requesting prior permission from the author.
We adhere to the Budapest Declaration which states "free availability on the public Internet, for any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, with the possibility to search or link to all texts of these articles, browse them for exhaustive indexing, use them as data for software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers, other than the fundamental one of gaining access to the Internet itself".
The content of all its issues is available for full-text download. No charge is made for the submission, evaluation and publication (APC's) of articles submitted by authors.
INTEROPERABILITY PROTOCOL
The journal incorporates interoperability protocols, which allows its contents to be harvested by other indexing systems, such as: databases, dissemination portals, directories, digital repositories and/or harvesters. The journal uses the Open Journal Systems 3.3.0.8 (OJS) software, which guarantees the automated, transparent and auditable registration of all interactions. It incorporates the OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) Interoperability Protocol, for the harvesting of our metadata. The metadata of the journal articles are described using the Dublin Core metatags.
Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0.
Metadata formats: Dublin Core; MARC; MARC21; RFC1807.
Path for harvesters: https://imagenretic.org/index.php/RevEcocarPract/oai
OPEN CITATIONS(I4OC)
The Initiative for Open Citations I4OC is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.
The aim of this initiative is to promote the availability of data on citations that are structured, separable, and open. Structured means the data representing each publication and each citation instance are expressed in common, machine-readable formats, and that these data can be accessed programmatically. Separable means the 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. Open means the data are freely accessible and reusable.
RETIC supports the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), championing open science and transparent research. AJO’s manuscript references are made freely available via Crossref's Metadata Delivery services. This ensures global accessibility to our citation data, fostering knowledge dissemination, collaboration, and a more inclusive scholarly landscape.
