Open Acess Policy

Open Access Policies (Open Science)
Our editorial policy follows the research communication modus operandi of Open Science.

The Electronic Journal of Law and Politics provides free and immediate access to all its content, in accordance with the principles of Open Science. We believe that offering scientific knowledge to the public free of charge not only strengthens the democratization of knowledge on a global scale but also contributes to the educational, social, and scientific development of communities.

This open access policy encourages the broad circulation of ideas, fosters transparency in academic research, promotes equity in access to information, and stimulates collaboration among researchers from different regions and socioeconomic contexts.

Free and Open Access
The copyrights of the published articles remain with the author(s). This journal provides immediate free access to its content, without any embargo, based on the principle that freely offering scientific knowledge to the public ensures greater worldwide democratization of knowledge.

RDP adopts and complies with the DOAJ definition of open access policy:

"Open Access is the condition in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to others through an open license (Creative Commons or equivalent), allowing immediate and free access to the work, and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, use them as data in software, or use them for any other lawful purpose."

Open Data, Empirical Research, and Ethics Committee
To promote data accessibility, transparency, and research reproducibility, the journal adopts parameters for research data sharing, in line with the Guidelines for Promoting Openness, Transparency, and Reproducibility of Research published by SciELO journals.

Articles that, in addition to literature review, are based on empirical data collected by the authors (examples: a set of decisions from a given court; interviews conducted with participants) must deposit the research data files in SciELO Data (official data repository) or Figshare.

When the work uses data obtained through original empirical research involving human beings (such as interviews or questionnaires), the project must be reviewed by the Ethics Committee of the Higher Education Institution to which the author is affiliated.