Open Access Policy

The articles are published in open access under a Creative Commons 'Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)' license, also Cientifica adheres to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities:

"Definition of an Open Access Contribution. Establishing open access as a worthwhile procedure ideally requires the active commitment of each and every individual producer of scientific knowledge and holder of cultural heritage. Open access contributions include original scientific research results, raw data and metadata, source materials, digital representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly multimedia material.
1) Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions:The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
2) A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving."

Copyright and licensing

In accordance to the current both Mexican and International copyright legislation, Científica recognizes and respects the moral rights of the authors, who retain complete and perpetual rights over the authorship of their work, while they grant us the privilege of the first publication and the perpetual non-exclusive right to reproduce it by the different means at their disposal with the purpose of giving it greater visibility.

Authors may include their articles after publication in institutional repositories, blogs or web pages or in other media, with credit to the first edition; remembering that the creative commons license used by Científica: Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license allows sharing, copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format, in addition to adapting, remixing, transforming and build from the material; under the following terms:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

The articles are online with the possibility of downloading, each article has four formats for reading: pdf, html*, ejournal* and mobile version* (by Redalyc).

No Aplying Publishing Charges (APC)

The costs of the edition of Cientifica are made by the National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico) through the Higher School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, a non-profit public institution of higher education, there is no charge for editing or publication processes (APC).

The notices and announcements in this publication are made for strictly academic purposes (Conferences, institutional publications, etc.).

It is important to mention that the main financier of scientific, technological and innovation research in Mexico is the State. Mexico distributes a significant amount of public resources annually through its agencies, with the intention of stimulating scientific production.