Open access policy, copyright and self-archiving

The Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot:
Provides immediate OPEN and free OPEN ACCESS to its content under the principle of making research freely available to the public, which fosters greater global knowledge exchange.

It allows authors of published papers to maintain their copyright without restrictions. The material published in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. More information at http://oca.unc.edu.ar/derechos-de-autor/

It adheres to the open access definition of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, BOAI https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org, providing free availability through the Internet, allowing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of its articles. The only limitation on reproduction and distribution and the only role of copyright in this domain should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Allows free of charge the partial or total reuse of its content and illustrations, attributing the original source to the author(s) and the journal.
Allows and recommends the self-archiving of contributions in their final version (post-print), immediately after their on-line publication, both on authors' personal websites (Facebook, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.) and on institutional websites.
Preservation and safekeeping policy (or Deposit Policy)
The journal Boletin de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica is hosted in the Portal de Revistas de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, a site intended for the university community to disseminate all its scientific, academic and cultural contents in free and open access. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar.
The materials published in this journal are deposited in the Repository of the National University of Córdoba, which ensures automatic backups and remote copies, format adjustments, integrity checks and other activities required to ensure digital preservation are carried out through the repository. All submissions made to the portal's journals are stored in duplicate on servers belonging to the University's Information Technology Prosecretariat, located in the Argentina Pavilion (or Data Center). These servers have strict access and are protected with facilities adapted for their safekeeping and durability.
The UNC is part of the National System of Digital Repositories of the Argentine Republic. It has adhered to the system, both the University Digital Repository and the Journals Portal. It also complies with the Guidelines for content providers of the National System of Digital Repositories of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation. More information at http://oca.unc.edu.ar/normativas.
The Argentine Republic adheres to the Open Access Policy through Law No. 26899: "Creation of Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories, Own or Shared", December 2013. https://www.argentina.gob.ar/normativa/nacional/ley-26899-223459. This Law and its regulations determine that researchers, professors, postdoctoral fellows and master's and doctoral students whose research activity is financed with public funds, must deposit or expressly authorize the deposit of a copy of the final version of their scientific-technological production published or accepted for publication in the open access digital repositories of their institutions, within a period not exceeding six (6) months from the date of its official publication or approval (Art.5º). Primary research data must be deposited no later than five (5) years from the time of collection, according to the policies established by the institutions.