Policy on open research data and the FAIR principles

9.1. General Provisions

The Bulletin supports the Open Science movement and encourages authors to share the research data on which their articles are based. This promotes transparency, the reproducibility of research, and increased citation rates.

9.2. FAIR Principles

Research data must comply with the international FAIR principles:

Findable: data must have a unique and permanent identifier (DOI).

Accessible: data must be accessible via standard protocols (e.g., HTTP).

Interoperable: data is stored in open formats (CSV, JSON, XML, etc.), allowing it to be processed by various software.

Reusable: data must have a clear licence (e.g. CC BY) and accompanying documentation (README file).

9.3. Mandatory requirements for authors

Deposit: Authors must upload datasets to reliable repositories (the eNTUKhPIIR institutional repository, or national or international platforms such as Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad).

Data Availability Statement: Each article must include a separate section before the reference list, specifying how to access the data.

Identification: The DOI of the dataset must be specified in the article’s metadata and in the text of the Statement.