Policies
Research Integrity
RDJ adheres to the best practices in the ethics of scholarly publishing stated in the COPE’s (Committee on Publication Ethics) Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for all parties involved: authors, reviewers, editors and the publisher.
Peer Review Policy
All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected. When possible data papers in RDJ undergo double blind peer review by both subject experts and data specialists. However, when the underlying dataset has already been published in a trusted repository – and the names of one or more of the authors are thus clear to the reviewers – this will become single-blind. Reviewers provide feedback and suggest necessary revisions for acceptance. In case a submission does meet the aims and scope of the journal or does not meet minimum standards of quality, the editor may desk reject a submission.
Open Access Policy
This journal is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or to use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This journal does not charge article processing fees.
Archiving Policy
This journal utilises Portico and PKP Preservation Network to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration. Underlying datasets must be formally archived in a trusted repository by the authors.
Copyright and license
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International (CC BY-4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process.
Authors are explicitly encouraged to deposit their published article in their institutional repository.
