Open access policy and copyright
The journal's open-access editorial policy is based on the Budapest Open Access Initiative's (BOAI) recommendations and standards. The journal adheres to the BOAI's definition of Open Access. Open access to peer-reviewed scientific literature means free public access online, allowing users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, scan for indexing, transfer as data to software, or use the full texts of articles for any lawful purpose without financial, legal, or technical barriers except those associated with personal Internet access. The only restrictions on the reproduction and distribution of materials are those associated with copyright law, which allows authors to control the integrity of their work and ensures proper acknowledgment and citation of their copyright.
The journal aims to promote global open access to scientific information and research. Under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC), the publisher provides readers, scholars, and institutions with free online access to all published materials (e.g., for linking to the content, downloading, distributing, printing, copying, and reproducing in any medium, except modifying the content or using it for commercial purposes). This license is valid provided that the original work is cited. Any use of published materials for commercial purposes requires written permission from the publisher.
The copyright on the article is protected by agreement. Authors sign the Copyright Agreement and provide the publisher with the right to publish, distribute the article, including on the Internet. The authors also authorize the publisher to assign a DOI to their articles and archive them in their respective databases.
In the Agreement, the authors certify that the submitted manuscript is their original work, has not been published before, and is not under consideration by other publishers. The article and any related published materials are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence, which permits the reuse of open-access materials with attribution. The journal's editors are not responsible for any subsequent use of the work.
The journal allows its authors to retain the copyright and publishing rights of articles published in it without restrictions. They are free to share the material (copy and redistribute it in any medium or format) and adapt it (remix, transform and build upon it for any purpose, including commercial use). As long as you follow the licence terms, the licensor cannot revoke these freedoms. Under these terms of use, materials published in the journal may only be used if a reference to the authors of these materials is provided, and if any changes have been made, these must be indicated.