Open Access Policy

This journal adheres to best practices and high publishing standards and meets the following requirements:

  1. Provide direct open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge;
  2. Allows authors to retain copyright and retain publishing rights without limitation;
  3. Store content with long-term digital preservation or archiving programs;
  4. Using a DOI as a permanent identifier;
  5. Embed machine-readable CC license information in articles;
  6. Allows reuse and mixing of multiple content, compliant with CC BY-NC license;
  7. Can Provide article level Metadata for any indexer and aggregator
  8. Have a stash policy registered in the stash policy registry, e.g. Sherpa/Romeo.