Open Access Policy

This journal adheres to best practices and high publishing standards, as well as complies with the following conditions :

  1. Providing immediate open access to research content for free to the public.
  2. Allowing authors to retain copyright to their work and maintain publishing rights without restrictions.
  3. Depositing content with a digital preservation program or long-term archive to ensure content remains available and accessible consistently.
  4. Using Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) or other permanent identifiers to identify and access content.
  5. Embedding Creative Commons license information in articles, allowing users to know and use the work according to the specified license terms.
  6. Allowing for wide reuse and content mixing, for example, with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license.
  7. Providing article metadata to indexes and aggregators to enhance content visibility and accessibility.
  8. Having a deposit policy registered in a deposit policy registry, such as Sherpa/Romeo, indicating content availability for open access.