Access policy
This journal provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources.
Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data , if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
Open access licences
Articles published under an Open Access licence are made freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription barriers to access. Authors who choose to publish under an open access licence and pay to have their paper freely available online will be asked to sign an open access licence agreement.
Our open access journals implement a variety of Creative Commons licences. This journal offer a single Creative Commons licenceis CC BY. You can find a summary of licence below.
