Copyright and Licenses

In accordance with Mexican legislation on copyright, Scientia Fungorum recognizes and respects the moral rights of the authors over their works. Likewise, for purposes of publication, dissemination and preservation in open access, the authors assign to the journal the patrimonial rights necessary for the editing and distribution of the accepted contents.

The journal allows the deposit of the submitted version (preprint) of manuscripts in institutional or thematic repositories, as well as in other freely accessible media chosen by the authors, provided that the work has not been previously published nor is it simultaneously submitted for evaluation in another journal. Likewise, authors may deposit the accepted version of the manuscript and the final published version, provided that it is clearly and completely indicated that the article was originally published in Scientia Fungorum.

All articles published in Scientia Fungorum are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows sharing, copying, distributing, adapting and reusing the contents for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the authors, the original source is properly cited and Scientia Fungorum is recognized as the medium of first publication.

The license includes:

Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

Adapt: Transform and build upon the material.

Always under the following conditions:

Attribution (BY): Appropriate credit must be given, a link to the license must be provided and changes must be indicated if any have been made. This may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests that the licensor endorses you or your use.

NonCommercial (NC): The material may not be used for commercial purposes.

ShareAlike (SA): If the material is remixed, transformed or built upon, the contributions must be distributed under the same license as the original.

This license ensures that the journal content can be widely used for academic and research purposes, while protecting the rights of the authors against unauthorized commercial use.