Open access and licensing
Every article we publish is free to read from the day it appears. Reuse follows the licence printed on each article: CC BY 4.0 for articles published since 2021.
The licence
Each article shows the licence printed on it. Articles published since 2021 are under CC BY 4.0; most published from 2015 to 2020 are under CC BY 3.0; earlier articles are mostly free to read under the publisher’s copyright, and some carry CC BY 3.0.
| Published | Licence | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 2005–2009 | © Science Publications | free to read; no open licence |
| 2010–2014 | © Science Publications or CC BY 3.0 | some journals moved to CC BY 3.0 from 2010; mixed until 2014 |
| 2015–2020 | CC BY 3.0 | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 |
| Since 2021 | CC BY 4.0 | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
Under CC BY 4.0 (articles since 2021) and CC BY 3.0, anyone may copy, distribute, display and adapt the work, including commercially, as long as the authors and the source are credited and changes are indicated. No permission needs to be asked. An article that carries the publisher’s copyright is free to read; ask us before reusing it.
Why Publish Open Access?
Open Access refers to the free and unrestricted online availability and access to scientific research. Ever since the launch of the internet, accessibility of data has become easier than ever before. Carrying out the same philosophy, the open access publishing model provides the wide availability of scientific content to everyone allowing academicians to maximize the impact of their research.
Publishing Open Access is extremely beneficial to Authors, Readers and even Funding Organizations as it offers a greater impact of research. It ensures that manuscripts are available for unlimited and unrestricted access to students, teachers, and researchers across the globe. This is extremely useful for authors who have spent years working on discovering new technologies and methodologies to be able to share it with the entire world.
Open Access is very valuable as it accelerates the pace of innovation allowing researchers to build on existing research and opens the door for wider collaborations and conversations. The same applies for educational institutes by using the most up-to-date information and encouraging businesses to implement pioneering research into the latest technologies.
Open Access Policy
Open access publishing provides immediate, worldwide free access to all published manuscripts. Readers can read, download and print any article free of charge; sharing and reuse follow the licence shown on each article.
The publication costs of an article are paid from an author’s research budget, or by their supporting institution. These Article Processing Charges replace subscription charges covers the costs of manuscript processing, online availability, hosting and archiving. All Science Publications’ content is archived in Portico, which provides archiving services to scholarly journals.
All Science Publication’s journals adhere to the open access policy. Once our highly qualified Editorial Board has accepted the manuscript, authors will receive an invoice including the publication charges for their manuscript.