Open Access

RSP adopts the open access model, offering virtual access without restrictions (including financial ones) to all scientific texts it publishes. Open access refers the copyright holder of an academic study granting rights of use to third parties by an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY), offering immediate free access to it and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link the full text of the articles, track them for indexing, or use them as software data or for any other lawful purpose.

The RSP editorial policy follows the communication of research in the Open Science model, a worldwide movement to make scientific knowledge accessible to all of society. RSP adopts the SciELO open science compliance form. Submitting manuscripts requires filling out and sending the Form on Compliance with Open Science along with other files.

RSP does not publish supplementary materials, annexes, or appendices. If existent, authors must make them available in open online repositories, such as Zenodo, Figshare, and OSF, indicating this information (the electronic address of the material) in the manuscript by a footnote.

Authors must inform in a specific section whether their research data are fully available, unavailable, or are available upon request. This information will be published at the end of the article.

Authors of articles published by RSP retain the copyright of their research, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0), which allows reuse and distribution without restrictions as long as the original article is correctly cited. Authors must grant the journal the right of first publication. The responsibility for the content of the articles is exclusive to the authors.