Publisher Policy

Open Access Policy

The Uruguayan Society of Veterinary Medicine promotes and supports the movement of open access to knowledge, so the Journal provides immediate free access to its content. Both the processing of manuscripts and the publication of articles is free of charge.

Veterinaria (Montevideo) uses the following Open Access license for all its content: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. 

 

Peer review

Veterinaria (Montevideo) has a system of simple blind external arbitration (peer review). All papers received are evaluated by peers with recognized experience in the subject, given their background of publications in leading journals.

The papers received will first be reviewed by the Editorial Board, which will appoint two referees (reviewers) for evaluation and may give the following directives: accept them, return them to the authors for adequacy or reject them.

The Editorial Board may decide to return the manuscript to the authors for adaptation or even its final rejection if it considers that the manuscript is not suitable to be sent to reviewers.

Regardless of the author's request, the Editorial Board will classify the manuscripts received into: 1. Original Article, 2. Technical Note, 3. Review. Exceptionally, the journal will publish articles of special interest, which will be previously reviewed by the Editorial Board.

 

Ethics in the use of experimental animals

Papers received that include animal experimentation should clearly detail their compliance with international ethical standards, as well as a statement that it has been prepared respecting international recommendations on clinical research (Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association, revision 1996) or, if applicable, on research with laboratory animals.

 

Frequency of publication

Semestral.

 

Plagiarism control policies

The journal uses the plagiarism control system iThenticate.

 

Sensitive data policy

The editor respects the provisions of Law 18.331 - Protection of Personal Data and Habeas Data action promulgated on August 11th, 2008. The right to the protection of personal data is inherent to the human person, so it is included in Article 72 of the Constitution of the Republic.

 

Intellectual property policy

The works accepted for publication become the intellectual property of the SMVU, leaving the rights to publish the work at its expense. Partial or total reproductions may only be made with the written authorization of the Editor.

Partial or total reproduction of the published work is authorized, mentioning the source.