About the Journal
Aim & Scope
Austral Journal of Veterinary Sciences (AJVS) is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that publishes original scientific contributions in veterinary sciences. The journal covers worldwide topics of all veterinary fields, such as epidemiology, infectious diseases, pathology, physiology, genomics that may be relevant to wildlife, farm, or domestic animals.
General information and editorial policy
AJVS adheres to the highest standards concerning its editorial policies on publication ethics, scientific misconduct, consent, and peer review criteria.
Original articles, short communications, case reports, scientific reviews, and mini reviews are subject to peer review; other items are published at the discretion of the Editorial Committee. Submissions are accepted on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere and that they are subject to editorial revision. Please visit Instructions for Authors for further information on writing and formatting your research.
AJVS adheres to COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) principles, which provides guidelines for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
Open Access
All articles published by AJVS are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers.
As authors of articles published in AJVS you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use reproduce or disseminate your article (Copyright and license).
The above complies with the DOAJ's definition of Open Access that allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.
The Creative Commons Attribution License formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles.
To see the latest issues and/or submit a manuscript please visit our website at www.ajvs.cl