Open Access Policy

License 

Authors publishing in this journal agree to the following terms:

a) Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication of the work. The work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and to the initial publication in this journal.

b) Authors are permitted to enter into separate, additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work as it appears in the journal (e.g., posting the work in an institutional repository or including it in a monograph), provided that full acknowledgment of the work’s initial publication in this journal is maintained.

c) The journal’s policy allows and encourages authors to post their manuscripts online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on personal websites) both prior to submission and during the editorial process, as this practice facilitates scholarly exchange and may enhance the visibility and citation impact of the published work (see  The Effect of Open Access)