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Every day, more technological tools emerge to aid in the management of the editorial processes carried out by a scientific journal, from the submission of a paper to its publication and follow-up of citations. However, given this increase in options, it has become more complex for those responsible to properly monitor and validate processes, as the information is more dispersed and sometimes lacks interoperability. This work proposes an architecture for integrating the essential tools of editorial flow, making an analytical and technical comparison allowing to obtain the best integration, in order to simplify the entirety of the required information in a single platform. As a result, a first prototype of the platform is presented which applies the defined architecture, obtaining favorable results for the monitoring and validation of journal works and indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On other occasions we have reported the partial results of the archaeological research at the site El Divisadero (Cafayate, Salta). The purpose of this paper is to present the analysis of the archaeological collection of San Agustín School located in the mentioned site. This proposal was framed within the Open Science movement and the record of the collection is already available for the local community and for those interested in the past of the native populations of Cafayate. The project included dialogue spaces with the educational community, registering the collection and integrating it with the results of archaeological investigations. The study of the collection allowed us to advance in the interpretations about the functionality of the site, to make temporal approximations of the pre-Hispanic occupations and to contextualize the archaeological objects in local history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an introduction to basic aspects of Open Science. First, it addresses the replication crisis in investigation and examples of questionable research practices that undermine science. Next, it describes examples of Open Science initiatives that aim to improve the reproducibility and reliability of scientific knowledge. Finally, it discusses the impact of adopting Open Science principles in elevating publication standards as well as challenges in transforming the system in which research is carried out. Overall, this work shares notions and resources that help involve academics from Latin America in the Open Science movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academic journals have been incorporating several elements of open science: open access (since 2000), later, the deposit of research data of the articles published, the dissemination of preprints before the publication of the paper and, finally, the open peer review (OPR). While open access is well-established and the inclusion of research data is increasingly widespread, the OPR is just at the beginning of its incorporation as a real alternative to the double-blind model, which is the most widespread and consolidated. The objective of our article is to analyse the opinion of the editors of Spanish scientific journals about the advantages and disadvantages or barriers for the implementation of the OPR. This is a qualitative study that has been carried out from the open answers of a questionnaire sent to the 1875 editors of the Spanish academic journals that appear in the database Dulcinea and that obtained a response of 22.4%. Regarding the limitations, the study is based on the opinions and experience of the editors of Spanish scientific journals, which are mostly published by academic institutions and are in the field of social sciences and humanities. The results focus on delving into the advantages and disadvantages. Among the encouraging factors, the editors point out that to have open reports is very useful for the scientific community, that it recognizes the role of the reviewer, makes it possible to control the arbitrariness of some reviewers, and that it promotes the reviewer-author dialogue. The main barriers discussed are the following: a possible lack of objectivity and rigor, resistance to change a consolidated system (“double-blind”), knowing the author benefits established authors and harms novices, more difficulties for finding reviewers, increases costs and can lengthen the review process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze, from the perspective of Latin America, two projects that advocate to open the sciences: the first was introduced by Wallerstein in the Report of the Gulbenkian Commission; the second is the open science project, more recently known since the approval of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021). In the first part, we revisit the program proposed by Wallerstein to "open the social sciences" and their main pillars. Next, we link this project with the concept of citizen science, the FAIR and CARE principles, and the need to make advances in participatory science practices with informational justice. Then, we analyze the Latin American route of open science and the collaborative infrastructure that has been in development since the 1950s. We analyze the intellectual, institutional and political conditions our region has to contend with to tread a path of our own in open science and to which extent social sciences participate in the process, as well as to which extent are they affected and/or promoted by it. Finally, we discuss the critical role that evaluation systems in the region have in producing a transformation of the magnitude possible in open science, without subordinating the communities that participate in the co-production of open knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of the publication of datasets collected via Google Dataset Search, specialized in families of RNA viruses, whose terminology was obtained from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) thesaurus developed by the US Department of Health and Human Services. The objective is to determine the scope and reuse capacity of the available data, determine the number of datasets and their free access, the proportion in reusable download formats, the main providers, their publication chronology, and to verify their scientific provenance. On the other hand, we also define possible relationships between the publication of datasets and the main pandemics that have occurred during the last 10 years. The results obtained highlight that only 52% of the datasets are related to scientific research, while an even smaller fraction (15%) are reusable. There is also an upward trend in the publication of datasets, especially related to the impact of the main epidemics, as clearly confirmed for the Ebola virus, Zika, SARS-CoV, H1N1, H1N5, and especially the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Finally, it is observed that the search engine has not yet implemented adequate methods for filtering and monitoring the datasets. These results reveal some of the difficulties facing open science in the dataset field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]