RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT

The journal Phainomena supports open access to research data as one of the fundamental principles of contemporary scientific research.

With concordance to the Decree on the Implementation of Scientific Research Work in Accordance with the Principles of Open Science, the co-funder of the journal, Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency, demands of the editorship to ask the authors of submitted manuscripts to provide open access to the research data used in the paper prior to its publication. Research data should be prepared according to the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability).

If the research data cannot be fully shared due to different valid reasons, the authors are requested to provide suitable justification (e.g., protection of personal data, trade secrets, security risks, etc.). The regulation determines open access to research data and other results of co-funded research with concordance to the principle “as open as possible, as closed as necessary.”

The authors are required to deposit research data in trustworthy repositories, archives, or centers, which provide appropriate access arrangements. For the publication of research data, we recommend the usage of the Creative Commons licences CC BY 4.0 ali CC0 1.0 (or their equivalents).

The authors must cite the used data resources with concordance to the instructions of the repository and to the citation system of the Phainomena journal. If the data has not been digitized or has not been published due to other restrictions, this must be appropriately described in a special data availability statement. Within the bibliographical list, the submitted manuscript must include a link to the published research data.

Research data must be made available to the editors and to the reviewers of the journal at the submission of the manuscript to the review process; at the latest, the data must be generally accessible by the time of the paper’s publication. An embargo on data access is only permitted in exceptional cases and should be accompanied by relevant embargo conditions as well as by a reasoned explanation. The responsibility of the editor is to assess whether the paper was prepared upon the basis of research data (either the author’s own data or other authors’ data). If the editor determines that the data is not properly cited, it is their responsibility to ask the author to revise the manuscript. If such a determination is made by the reviewer, they are required to alert the editor of the publication.

Should further clarification be required, the authors may contact the journal’s editorial office (phainomena@institut-nr.si) or the relevant support institutions for research data management.