1. Purpose and Scope

The Revista Latinoamericana de la Papa is committed to the dissemination of high-quality scientific knowledge in potato science across Latin America and globally. Published by the Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP), this journal promotes permanent, immediate, and unrestricted open access to all its academic and scientific content. By removing financial, legal, and technical paywalls, the journal fosters the democratization and social appropriation of specialized agricultural knowledge, ensuring that research funded by public or institutional resources is accessible to everyone.

2. Free and Immediate Open Access

• No Paywalls: All published articles, reviews, short communications, and opinion pieces are made freely available online to readers instantly upon publication.

• Public Availability: Anyone can read, download, print, search, link, crawl, or share the full text of these articles without requesting prior permission from the publisher or the author, in accordance with the DOAJ definition of Open Access.

3. Publication Fees and Costs

• Transparency of Fees: To remain accessible to researchers throughout the global scientific community, the journal clearly outlines all publishing costs.

• Article Processing Charges (APC): Manuscripts accepted for publication after undergoing rigorous peer review are subject to a Publication Fee of 400 USD. This fee supports the editorial management, technical indexing, hosting, and permanent maintenance of the digital archiving infrastructure. There are no hidden submission fees.

4. Copyright and Licensing

To protect author rights while maximizing the global reach and impact of research, the journal implements a flexible licensing framework:

• Creative Commons Licensing: All content published in the journal is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

• User Terms: Under this license, third parties are free to share (copy and redistribute) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon) the material, provided that:

  1. The original authorship and publishing source are fully recognized and cited.

  2. The material is not used for commercial purposes.

  3. Any adapted or remixed material is shared under the exact same license terms as the original.

• Author Copyright: Authors publishing in the Revista Latinoamericana de la Papa preserve the copyright of their work. This excludes any third-party images, datasets, or external materials incorporated into the article, which remain subject to the copyright conditions of their respective owners.

5. Self-Archiving and Repository Policy (Green Open Access)

• Preprints and Postprints: Authors retain unrestricted rights to deposit all versions of their work (Submitted Version, Accepted Version/Authors' Accepted Manuscript, or the final published Version of Record) in external digital platforms.

• Permitted Platforms: Authors may freely store their papers in institutional repositories, subject-specific archives (e.g., AGRIS, DOAJ), or personal scholarly profiles (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu) without any embargo periods. The original URL source at papaslatina.org and the article's digital identifier should ideally be linked during repository self-archiving.

Open Access Policy

Revista Latinoamericana de la Papa