Open Access Policy
The Journal adopts a Gold Open Access (OA) publication policy, providing its peer-reviewed journal articles without any access restrictions for the largest potential audience. Open Access route means:
- Full and unlimited access to high-quality research,
- Freedom to re-use research for educational or other purposes, within the relevant legal agreement framework,
- Funding support by institutions and other academic organizations
Through open access publishing, the following can be safeguarded:
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The authors grant a Creative Commons copyright license in the article to the public, in particular a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), which is incorporated herein by reference for all status versions of the paper (accepted manuscript, proof, publication). CC BY 4.0 permits users, among others, to read, distribute, modify, or build upon the article without restriction, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes, provided that the original article is clearly cited.
There are no subscription fees since we offer freely and permanently available research papers but there are publication costs, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for which information can be found here. The entire publication process relies entirely on the editorial evaluation and the peer-review reports.
In 2024, we have published 323 open access journal articles.
For more information on the origins of OA routes, please visit:
- https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm (June, 2003)
- https://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration (October, 2003)
- https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/ (December, 2001)
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