Repository Policy

As a fully open-access journal, the Davao Research Journal (DRJ) strongly encourages authors to promote transparency, reproducibility, and long-term accessibility of research outputs by depositing the data, software, computer codes, protocols, instruments, and other supporting materials underlying their published findings in appropriate public repositories, unless these materials are already included within the published article or its supplementary files.

Authors are encouraged to use recognized and reliable repositories that ensure responsible sharing, digital preservation, accessibility, and proper citation of research materials. These repositories may include:

Subject-specific repositories that are designed for particular disciplines, data formats, or software types; and

Generalist or cross-disciplinary repositories that accommodate multiple forms of research data and digital outputs.

Where established disciplinary standards or community practices exist for data or software deposition, authors are expected to comply with such standards to ensure interoperability, reproducibility, and consistency within their respective fields. Authors should likewise ensure that deposited materials are adequately documented, ethically shared, and accompanied by sufficient metadata to facilitate reuse and verification by other researchers.

In cases where no suitable subject-specific repository is available, institutional repositories or other trusted repositories that support unrestricted access, long-term preservation, public dissemination, and adherence to open science and responsible sharing principles may also be used. Suitable repositories should follow recognized best practices in digital preservation, data stewardship, transparency, and scholarly communication.

The journal encourages authors to include repository links, accession numbers, persistent identifiers (such as DOIs), or other relevant information within their manuscripts to facilitate access to deposited materials. Where ethical, legal, confidentiality, intellectual property, or privacy concerns restrict public sharing, authors should clearly indicate the nature of such restrictions and, where feasible, provide information on how qualified researchers may access the materials under appropriate conditions.