Open Access

Authors whose contributions are accepted for publication in Archivos de Neurociencias agree that all published documents are disseminated in Open Access and are available online free of charge, immediately after publication. Archivos de Neurociencias does not apply any charge for submitting, processing or publishing articles. The journal complies with the open-access definition from the Directory of Open-Access Journals (DOAJ).

Creative Commons (CC) license

From 2022 on, all manuscripts published by the journal Archivos de Neurociencias are distributed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).  With this license, authors transfer copyright to the Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, but allow any user to share, copy, distribute, transmit, adapt and make non-commercial use of the work without needing to provide additional permission, provided appropriate attribution is made to the original author or source.

Authors' rights

Authors grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under an Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in Archivos de Neurociencias.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

For all of the above, the authors must send the Copyright transfer agreement (in Spanish), duly completed and signed by the authorcorrespondig author. An English translation of the template is available for your guidance, but it is MANDATORY to sign the Spanish version due to legal concerns.

Readers' Rights

Under the principles of Open Access, readers have the right to freely read, print and distribute the contents of the journal by any means, immediately upon online publication of the contents. The only requirement for this is that it always be clearly and explicitly stated that the work was published for the first time in the journal Archivos de Neurociencias and that the source and the corresponding DOI be correctly cited.