Open Access and reuse policy

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

 

COPYRIGHT.

They retain their authorship rights, although they grant the journal non-exclusive exploitation rights (reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation) and grant the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons license. The signatories may establish other additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal, provided that there is an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

 

LICENSE

The journal is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 which allows sharing, copying and redistribution of the material in any medium or format, under the following terms:

  • Acknowledgment: You must give proper 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 that the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • Non-commercial: you may not use the material for commercial purposes.
  • No Derivatives: if you remix, transform or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
  • No Additional Restrictions: you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything permitted by the license.

 

SELF-ARCHIVING POLICY

Authorship is encouraged to disseminate their work via the Internet to promote faster circulation and dissemination and, with it, a possible increase in citation and reach among the scientific and scholarly community under the following conditions:

  • Authors are allowed to deposit in an institutional or thematic repository, own web page, etc., the preprint (version before being evaluated) or postprint (version evaluated and accepted for publication) versions of their papers before publication and the final published article (final version published in the journal) is allowed.

 

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.