Regarding the use and promotion of preprints

This journal will accept manuscripts that have previously been published on recognized preprint servers such as SciELO preprints, Zenodo, HAL, OSF, and all supported groups, among others. Preprints can also be available in institutional repositories or open-access repositories such as Internet Archive or any other recognized repositories for this purpose. The requirement is that it is deposited in a server that provides a persistent link, such as a DOI, ARK, or handle. Authors who have published a preprint must include the persistent link where the deposited document is located. This journal encourages the publication of preprints.

A preprint is a final manuscript that has not undergone peer review and that the author has directly published before it appears in a journal or any other type of medium involving editing. Preprints are useful for the community to provide feedback on the manuscript. They allow the community to observe the changes the document has undergone throughout the editing process in cases where it is published by a journal. It allows the author to have evidence that they are studying the addressed problem and can be used as evidence in cases of intellectual property disputes.

A preprint is not a previous publication in a journal or any other medium or format. The preprint does not have the endorsement of the servers that host it. When citing a preprint, the preprint server cannot be mentioned as its publisher. Instead, it should be referred to as "Preprint" along with a persistent link.

Concrete actions to promote the use of preprints

This journal will maintain and coordinate a preprint server that can be used by anyone intending to submit their manuscripts to the journal. The preprint server will be supported by the OPS software, and the files will be published under the author's name on Zenodo. The journal will not consider these preprints as part of its editions, nor will they undergo evaluation. To cite these preprints later, authors must share their DOI.

In cases where there is a preprint version of manuscripts submitted to the journal, the editorial team will remove the manuscript title before sending it for peer review to preserve double-blind anonymity.

It is not obligatory to use the preprint server installed by the journal, nor is it mandatory to publish preprints.

Before publishing a preprint, authors should consider that the process is irreversible. They should also consider whether the journals they wish to submit their manuscripts to have a policy that accepts preprint deposition. Revista nuestrAmérica and all its associated projects allow the publication of preprints.

The journal's preprint server will have its own terms of use. You can visit this server and make submissions directly on its website:

http://nuestramerica.cl/ops/index.php/preprints/about/submissions