Open Science

Since 1996, Mediações has provided open access to all of its content, following the principle of making the results of peer-reviewed scientific research freely available to the public. This aims to promote global exchange of scientific knowledge and enhance the democratization of knowledge. Mediações adheres to the fundamental principles of open access scientific production, offering digital access (under a Creative Commons CC-BY license) to its authors and users, providing public, free, and permanent access to all published volumes. Additionally, the journal fully grants copyright ownership to its authors, thus characterizing itself as a Diamond Open Access (Diamond OA) journal.

By subscribing to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) principles, Mediações ensures that authors and users can read, download, search, print, copy, and/or link to the full texts of published articles. They can also use them for other legal purposes, without any additional cost to any party and without the need to request prior permission from the editor or authors, as long as the terms of the Creative Commons license adopted by the journal are respected. The journal also encourages authors to make their materials and databases used in manuscripts available to promote reference and dissemination of research materials, as well as combat misconduct related to data fabrication and falsification.

Mediações offers authors and reviewers the option of open evaluations and commits to promoting the FAIR Principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) and the guidelines regarding sex and gender equity in research (Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER), as well as adopting the DEIA Principles (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) throughout the scientific communication workflow, as outlined by SciELO (2024, p. 6) and COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) – paramount mechanisms and instruments for promoting open science and its practices.

In accordance with the guidelines of open science, Mediações accepts and encourages, without embargo, the submission of articles that have been previously submitted, accepted, or published in an institutional repository or another preprint reliable repository chosen by the authors (such as SciELO Preprints, EmeRI, Advance – SAGE Pub e OSFPreprints – Center of Open Science, etc).

With regard to accessibility, Mediações features the default theme of OJS that complies with the OJS 3.3+ Default Theme Accessibility Statement and follows the general principles for creating accessible content, achieving high levels of overall readability for its texts and editorial policies using tools like the Hemingway app, which aids in assessing writing complexity. The journal's editorial team also fill the metadata in accordance with the Coalition Publica's metadata best practices guide, thereby contributing to providing users of software applications and adaptive technologies with essential information about the published document.