OPEN ACCESS POLICY

The journal provides direct open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports greater global knowledge exchange. This journal is an open access journal which means that all content is available free of charge to users or /institutions. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles in this journal without first requesting permission from the publisher or author.

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