Publishing model

EJFB is a fully open access, also called Diamond Open Access.

Diamond Open Access is the most equitable path to open access publishing. It refers to a scholarly publication model in which journals and platforms do not charge fees to either authors or readers. Contents published on EJFB are licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License. If the paper is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according tho this license.

EJFB is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research. In support of the Open Access initiative, authors are encouraged to self-archive their publications in open access repositories and share their research data in institutional or public data repositories.

Data availability statement

The data availability statement tells the reader where the research data associated with a paper is available, and under what conditions the data can be accessed. It also includes links (where applicable) to the dataset.

This declaration states the conditions of access to the “minimum dataset” that are necessary to interpret, verify and extend the research in the paper, transparent to readers. This minimum dataset should be provided through deposition in public community/discipline-specific repositories. Below are some examples of statements that you can use or adapt:

Availability of data	Template for data availability statement
Data openly available in a public repository	The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at [URL/DOI], reference number [reference number].
Data available within the article or its supplementary materials	The authors confirm that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article [and/or] its supplementary materials.
Data available on request from the authors	The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, [author initials], upon reasonable request.
Data sharing not applicable – no new data generated	Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.