Open Access Policy

The journal offers an open access option to best serve the needs of authors and their funders. Open access is the free, immediate online access for any user to scientific and scholarly material, primarily research articles published in peer‐reviewed journals. The open-access articles are published under the CC BY license as standard.

Authors retain the right to distribute their author-accepted manuscript (AAM)1, such as via an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. EuropePMC), under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

1The accepted manuscript (also known as the ‘postprint’) is the version of the work that has been accepted by the journal following peer review and includes all amendments made during that process, but which has not yet been branded, typeset, or copyedited by the publisher in any way.

 

Open Access Publishing Offer

4A Journal offers the authors to publish their work as Hybrid Open Access.

4A Journal allows authors to comply with their funder mandates by offering open access option. This is known as hybrid open access. 4A journal agrees to follow the requirements of the Jisc transformative journal. 4A Journal demonstrates its commitment to transformation and transparency by meeting Jisc's agreed criteria.

  • 4A Journal’s hybrid open access program started in January 2022. The hybrid option is only available post acceptance of the article for publication.
  • An Article Publishing Charge (APC) of US$ 300 is paid by the author (or on their behalf by their institution or funder).
  • The authors' deposited versions are unrestricted and free to view and download.



Updated/4 July 2022