Ethics, Open Science, Interoperability and Scientific Integrity

Ethics, Open Science, Interoperability and Scientific Integrity

The journal adopts the definition of open access for all its scientific literature, making it available online in accordance with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI-2002).

This means that we support the publication of scientific articles without financial, legal, or technical barriers, allowing anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts, use them as data for software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

Interoperability and Technical Infrastructure

For editorial management, we use the Open Journal Systems platform (OJS 3.5), which enables interoperability, integration, and wide dissemination of content on the internet.

Our infrastructure follows international standards:

OAI-PMH 2.0 Protocol: Supporting DRIVER 2.0 guidelines and OpenAIRE standards.

Structured Metadata: We use the international Dublin Core standard to ensure proper indexing and machine readability of all publications, and we adopt the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to ensure transparency of author contributions.

Digital Preservation: The collection is preserved by the Cariniana Network (IBICT) via the LOCKSS system, ensuring perpetual access to content.

Ethics and Scientific Integrity

The journal supports international standards for responsible scientific publishing, promoted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Code of Ethics of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Council of Science Editors (CSE), and the SciELO Best Practices Guide.

We consider that the integrity policy of the ESASP Journal is based on principles that ensure the reliability of research methods and results.

Any violation of this policy will be handled with the sanctions established by the Editorial Board, according to the following guidelines:

  1. Evaluation and Freedom of Expression
    All submitted articles are evaluated through a double-blind peer review system, ensuring the highest academic standards and anonymity between authors and reviewers.

  2. Plagiarism and Ethical Conduct of Authors
    Authors must submit original and unpublished work. The journal uses similarity detection software (such as CopySpider or equivalent) in all submissions. Authors retain copyright, licensing their work under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

  3. Responsibilities of Editors
    Editors evaluate manuscripts solely based on academic and intellectual merit, without discrimination of any kind.

  4. Responsibilities of Reviewers
    Reviewers must treat manuscripts as confidential documents and provide objective and well-founded evaluations.

  5. Policy on Corrections, Errata, and Retractions
    Minor errors will be addressed through errata. Proven cases of scientific misconduct will result in retraction linked to the original article, following COPE guidelines.

  6. Processing and Submission Fees
    The journal does not charge submission, processing, or publication fees (APCs). The entire process is funded by the School of Advocacy of OAB/SP (Diamond Open Access).

  7. Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    The use of generative AI tools must be declared by the authors within the manuscript, specifying the tool used and its purpose. AI cannot be listed as an author. Human authors are fully responsible for the content, including its accuracy, originality, and integrity, in compliance with Ordinance No. 2,664/2026 of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) of Brazil.