Editorial policies

Open Science

The Open Science movement proposes guidelines for collaborative, shared and public scientific practice. In line with Open Science guidelines, Veredas do Direito adopts a number of practices, such as the free access policy, the code of good practices for editors and the use of social networks to disseminate published works. In addition, it requires the precise indication of the role of each of the authors in articles with multiple authors, encourages the sharing of analysis data sets, instruments, statistical analysis scripts, scripts and additional materials, available in open online repositories, such as SciELO Data, Zenodo, Figshare and OSF, if they cannot be published in the work itself, and such information must be indicated in the manuscript. Consequently, articles that communicate research must indicate and reference the availability of the contents underlying the preparation of the research and the results obtained.

Veredas do Direito encourages the publication of preprint articles on public platforms, such as Preprints, SciELO Preprints and EmeRI, so that, if applicable, they are openly discussed before being published.

Still in tune with open science practices, Veredas do Direito offers authors and reviewers options for opening the peer review process, with or without identification of their names. Authorization for disclosing the name may be given by the authors at the time of submission of the article and by the evaluators by completing the Open Science Compliance Form.

In the case of publication of the evaluations that supported the decision to publish the article, these may be edited by the editorial board of Veredas do Direito.

The contribution of section editors, if any, is duly credited in the published article. Reviewers receive a declaration of the manuscript's opinion and can also validate the activity in Publons or Reviewer Credit.

Peer Review Process

The Journal Veredas do Direito: Environmental Law and Sustainable Development, from the Master's Course in Environmental Law and Sustainable development at the Dom Helder Escola Superior (DHES), aims to publish scientific articles by authors from national or foreign teaching or research institutions.

Unpublished contributions will be accepted, and the publication of an article is subject to its adequacy to editorial standards. The mere receipt of a manuscript does not imply its publication. Exceptionally, the Editorial Committee may accept the submission of works that have already been published and, if this occurs, they will be submitted to the same peer review process as previously unpublished ones. Authors must submit written authorization from the editor of the journal in which their work was originally published, along with a copy of the article.

Articles will be evaluated through the peer review process, that is, the articles will be submitted for approval by at least 2 evaluators who have mastery of the topics addressed. Articles will be sent for evaluation without authorship identification.

The originals will be immediately forwarded to reviewers. The article selection process involves evaluation by experts and the Editorial Committee. In the table of contents, the sequence of article titles will follow the alphabetical order of the authors' surnames.

The journal reserves the right to make normative, spelling and grammatical changes to the originals, with a view to maintaining the cultured standard of the language, respecting, however, the authors' style.

Articles published in the journal Veredas do Direito: Direito Ambiental e Desenvolvimento Sustentável may be reprinted, in whole or in part, as long as the source of the original publication is acknowledged.

The opinions expressed by the authors of the articles are their sole responsibility.

Evaluation phases

Articles submitted through the journal™s website will undergo two evaluation phases: the first phase will be carried out by the editorial team and is intended to verify compliance with the Guidelines for Authors available on the journal's website; in case of approval in the first phase, the article will be forwarded to blind peer review, this being the second phase, in which the article can be approved, approved with mandatory revisions, or rejected.

In all cases, the editorial decision and evaluations will be sent by email to the author “ in case of co-authorship, to the co-author who registered in the submission as the main contact. In case of approval with mandatory revisions, the author will have 5 working days (period that may eventually be extended, depending on the complexity of the requested revisions) to send the revised version of the article through the journal™s system, which will be reviewed by the editorial team. If the revisions are not satisfactory, new adjustments may be necessary or, as the case may be, the article may be rejected. Failure by authors to respond to requests for revisions may also result in article rejection.

Free Access Policy

This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater worldwide democratization of knowledge.

Copyright

Veredas do Direito uses a Creative Commons license (CC-BY 4.0), thus preserving the integrity of the articles in an open access environment. The journal allows authors to retain publication rights without restriction. Thus, the authors are free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform and build on the material for any purpose, even commercially).

Intellectual Property and Terms of Use

Publication responsibility:

Veredas do Direito reserves the right to make normative, spelling and grammatical changes to the originals, in order to respect the cultural norms of the language, without, however, disrespecting the authors™ style.

• The originals will not be returned to the authors.

Authors' responsibilities:

Authors retain full rights to their articles published in Veredas do Direito, with reprinting (in full or in part), deposit or republication subject to indication of first publication in Veredas do Direito, through the CC-BY

• Authors must acknowledge the original publication source.
• The opinions expressed by the authors are their sole responsibility.

Conflict of interest policy

Conflicts of interest (which can be of a personal, commercial, academic or financial nature) occur when authors, reviewers or editors have interests capable of influencing the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. Upon submission of the manuscript, the authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial conflicts or any other nature that may have exerted some influence on the work. Therefore, if there is, even potentially, a conflict of interest, it is up to the authors to state it in a signed document attached to the submission platform.

It is also the responsibility of the authors to identify in the manuscript any financial support obtained for the preparation of the work, as well as other personal connections linked to the research. It is up to the reviewers to inform the editors about any conflicts of interest that may influence the analysis of the manuscript, declaring themselves unqualified to review it.

Privacy Statement 

The names and addresses provided in this journal will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication, and they will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.