Research data policy

In relation to public funding for the development of research and its subsequent dissemination, it is recommended that the supporting data of the articles obtained by such funding be put in the open and indicated in the article to be published. However, since Astrágalo is a journal that does not usually publish texts based on laboratory results, for example, its policy is to leave this possibility open to the authors.

"Research data" means any document other than the scientific publication, used or produced in the course of the research presented, and which is used as evidence in the process or is essential to validate conclusions and results.

Access to these data is crucial to verify and reproduce the results presented, taking into account personal data protection, ethical aspects and funders' requirements.

Authors are encouraged to deposit these data in appropriate repositories that ensure their retrieval, access and long-term preservation. These should be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) repositories, providing guidelines for data standards, a DOI to link to the article, clear terms of use and open Creative Commons-type licences.

The aim is to foster scientific development and facilitate the validation, replication and analysis of research for future studies. The re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories can be consulted, taking into account the deposit rules of each repository.

In the article, the deposit of the data in a repository should be mentioned, providing a description, the name and URL of the repository, the identifier and the licence for use and distribution, under the heading 'Availability of deposited data', and before the bibliographic listing. The data must be properly cited together with other bibliographic references, including the repository identifier.

Example of a bibliographic citation:

Data availability.

All test material, codes and raw data are publicly available on the Open Science Framework: web address