Open Access Policy

This journal is an open-access journal that provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charge readers or their institutions for access. Readers have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

This journal adheres to the best practice and high publishing standards and complies with the following conditions:

1. Provides immediate 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 the author to hold the copyright and to retain publishing rights without restrictions;
3. Uses DOIs as permanent identifiers;
4. Embeds machine-readable CC licensing information in articles;
5. Allows generous reuse and mixing of content, in accordance with CC BY-SA license;
6. Can Provide Provide article-level metadata for any indexers and aggregators.

This Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.