Providing direct open access to its content with the principle that making research freely available to the public supports greater global knowledge exchange;
Allow authors to hold copyright and maintain publishing rights without restriction;
Deposit content with long-term digital preservation or archiving programs;
Use DOI as a permanent identifier;
Include machine-readable CC license information in the article;
Allow generous reuse and mixing of content, in accordance with the CC BY-SA license;
Can Provide Provide article-level metadata for indexers and aggregators
Have a deposit policy that is registered with the deposit policy registry, e.g. Garuda