Open Access Policy

This journal adheres to the best practices 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. Deposits content with a long-term digital preservation or archiving program;
4. Uses DOIs as permanent identifiers;
5. Embeds machine-readable CC licensing information in articles;
6. Allows generous reuse and mixing of content by CC BY-SA license;
7. Can provide article-level metadata for any indexers and aggregators;
8. Has a deposit policy registered with a deposit policy registry, e.g., Sherpa/Romeo.

Article-Processing Charge

The Article Processing Charges (APC) are meant to support the journal's associated expenses. The publication fee is $250 USD for each article. The publication fee for each article is free until the end of June 2023.