Self-archiving policy

The Revista Internacional & Comparada de Derechos Humanos (International & Comparative Human Rights Review) permits, encourages, and supports the self-archiving and deposition of the different versions of manuscripts in institutional or thematic repositories, preprint servers, academic networks, or personal websites, subject to the following specific guidelines:

  1. Document versions and deposition conditions
  • Submitted version: The initial draft of the scientific work prior to undergoing the external peer-review process.
    • Deposition policy: Authors are authorized to deposit this version on preprint servers such as SciELO Preprints, arXiv, or equivalent platforms, or within institutional repositories at any time prior to or simultaneous with its submission to the journal.
    • Transparency requirement: The deposited manuscript must include a visible notice on its first page stating: “This text is a preliminary version (preprint) submitted to the Revista Internacional & Comparada de Derechos Humanos on [Date] and is currently undergoing peer review. It does not constitute a final published version.”
    • Update obligation: Following the official publication of the article, the author undertakes to update the preprint's metadata to link it via a permalink to the definitive article on the journal's website.
  • Accepted version: The final manuscript that has successfully passed the peer-review process and has been accepted by the Editorial Committee, incorporating all requested corrections, but lacking the publisher’s layout, typesetting, pagination, and logos.
    • Deposition policy: Self-archiving is authorized immediately and without embargo periods from the moment the author receives the official manuscript acceptance notification.
  • Published version: The definitive and official PDF or HTML file, copyedited, typeset with the graphic identity of the journal, and paginated.
    • Deposition policy: Self-archiving and public distribution of the final files with the journal’s graphic design and layout are strictly prohibited in external repositories. Authors must exclusively self-archive the accepted version (postprint) in clean text format to ensure that the consultation of the official version is redirected to the journal's website.

 

  1. Mandatory requirements for registration on external platforms

To ensure correct attribution, scientific traceability, and the integrity of international indexes, any deposition of the accepted version in external repositories must strictly comply with the following requirements:

  1. Preservation of the license: The document deposited on external platforms must be shared under the same Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, indicating this explicitly in the destination repository's metadata.
  2. Mandatory return link: It is a mandatory requirement that any self-archived manuscript includes a direct and functional hyperlink to the official URL of the article on the journal's website.
  3. Citation of the original source: The complete bibliographic citation of the original publication must be clearly and explicitly recorded in the repository's metadata using the following format:

Originally published in: Revista Internacional & Comparada de Derechos Humanos, Vol. [X], No. [X]. URL: [Official Permalink].