Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

The Journal aims to promote the development of global Open Access to scientific information and research. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 CC-BY that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge, meaning:

Everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of articles published in this journal; manuscripts are freely available without subscription or price barriers

• Papers are immediately released in open access format (no long waiting periods),

There is no Article Processing Charges for Publication of Articles in this Journal

 High Visibility and High Availability- free and unlimited accessibility of the publication over the internet without any restrictions.

Open Access publications are more frequently cited due to their high publicity and availability.

Publications are also more easily searchable in search engines and indexing databases.

Rapid Publication - accepted papers are immediately published online.

 

The definition of OA:

By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this domain should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

Archiving Policy

The full text of all articles is deposited in CLOCKSS, LOCKSS and PKP Preservation Network (PN) around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation.