Editorial Policies

Open Access Policy

The Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Quito) adheres to the BOAI declaration, providing immediate open access to its content, which allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers, while respecting the integrity of the authors' work and their right to be properly acknowledged and cited, based on the principle of offering the public free access to research to help foster greater global exchange of knowledge and science.

Copyright and Rights

Authors publishing in the Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Quito) acknowledge and accept the following conditions:

Authors retain copyright and grant the Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Quito) the right of first publication of the manuscript, under a Creative Commons License.

The Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Quito) is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Ecuador License, since 2006, which allows copying and distributing the material in any medium or format, in its original form, for non-commercial purposes only, and provided the creator and the original source are cited. CC BY-NC-ND includes the following elements:

BY: credit must be given to the creator. NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted. ND: No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted.

For digitized volumes since 1932, the terms of public domain are adopted.

Authors retain copyright and grant the Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Quito) the right to publish the manuscript through any channels it deems appropriate.

Authors are authorized to disseminate their works electronically once the manuscript is published.

Plagiarism Detection Policy

The Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Quito) has a similarity detection policy based on scanning all articles with specific anti-plagiarism software under an annual agreement.

Interoperability and Machine-Readable Data Policy

The Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Quito) allows both the full text and metadata, including bibliographic references, to be crawled and accessed with permission, and permits interoperability under the OAI-PMH protocol for open data and open source.

File Preservation Policy

The Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Quito) declares that all files and digital content of publications are preserved for a long period of time on a physical server owned by the Central University of Ecuador. These files are also backed up on the Dropbox platform to prevent loss due to damage to the physical server and thus safeguard their integrity, authenticity, unalterability, and accessibility. Additionally, the Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Quito) uses the Virtual Health Library (BVS) repository, an initiative of the Pan American Health Organization, with its LILACS Regional repository - Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences, for content queries.

Editorial Management Costs-Free Publication

The Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Quito) is funded by the Central University of Ecuador, therefore, authors are not required to make any financial contributions for the management and publication of their manuscripts.