Aquichan's Crossmark Policies

https://doi.org/10.5294/aqui.crossmarkpolicy

Content Permanence

CrossMark Policies

What is CrossMark?

It is a Crossref initiative identified with the brand’s flagship icon:

This method guarantees that the reader is accessing the current version of a publication, as long as it displays the CrossMark logo. Click on the logo to access the version history and find information regarding minor or major changes to the published versions. It is also linked to the DOI, ensuring the stability and permanence of updates over time.

In this journal, we upload the PDFs available to the public in two instances:

  1. when the editorial process ends, with the approval of the author and editorial team,
  2. when the last modifications are made to that PDF as a result of a design review for printing purposes.

Adding the CrossMark icon commits our journal to and makes it responsible for notifying and updating readers about any change in an article.

What kind of changes and updates are part of the CrossMark version history?

  • Addendum: Secondary documents that provide additional information about what has been published. It mainly presents other results. The content added will be specified.
  • Correction: New versions with minor changes that do not affect the meaning of the paper, such as typos or otherwise. Any version update due to this type of modification will be informed.
  • Duplicate: If a paper is already published in another medium or republished either due to technical errors or operational accidents, it will be clarified publicly. The appropriate files will be modified and updated in the CrossMark versions.
  • Erratum: Articles for which, after digital or physical publication, significant errors in the writing, images, tables, graphs, references, or otherwise are reported in the available version. The erratum will be specifically mentioned and corrected for the new version.
  • Rectification (corrigendum): When the author of the published article reports errata, the rectification and appropriate corrections will be explained.
  • Elimination: At the relevant authorized party’s request, all available content will be eliminated. Only the article’s citation information and an explanation will be included on the article page and the different means of accessing the content.
  • Retraction: At the relevant authorized party’s request, a statement of the retraction and, where applicable, the party’s note about the retraction will be posted on all the means of access to the article provided by the journal. The stipulated texts and the note will be retained on the article data page. The title will change to “Retraction: <article title>” and the PDF will have a watermark on all pages where the retraction is announced. The same applies to other versions in the reading formats that the journal may have (HTML, XML, ePub, etc.). For further information on the COPE policies we follow, click here.