About Tech Science Press

About

Overview

Tech Science Press (TSP) is a leading academic publisher dedicated to advancing Open Access publishing across core disciplines such as science, technology, medicine, and social sciences. Founded in January 1997, TSP has upheld rigorous publishing standards, building strong collaborations with scholars, researchers, and academic institutions worldwide. Currently, TSP publishes 31 fully peer-reviewed online journals, the vast majority of which are fully Open Access, offering global access to cutting-edge research. A small number of titles provide an Open Access option to authors. In addition to journals, TSP's portfolio includes academic books, monographs, and conference proceedings.

As a proud member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), Council of Science Editors (CSE), and International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), TSP continuously works to support open science while upholding the highest standards of research integrity.

Open Access

Open access (OA) refers to free and unrestricted online access to scientific and scholarly information. The concept of open access was firstly defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). Tech Science Press (TSP) defines open access as follows: for articles published under an open access route, the peer-reviewed Version of Record is freely available online immediately upon publication (no embargo period), and may be reused in accordance with the applicable Creative Commons license, provided a correct citation to the original publication is given and any changes are indicated.

Please note that some third-party materials such as figures, tables, or text included in articles may not be covered by the Creative Commons license. In such cases, permission to reuse must be obtained from the original copyright holder (usually the original publisher or authors), and proper attribution must be provided.

TSP Publication Ethics Statement

As a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), TSP is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards in scholarly publishing.TSP takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure adding the highest quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. TSP takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously on every level. Our staff are trained to identify and report any irregularities. Our editors proceed with a zero tolerance policy for ethical violations, including plagiarism, data falsification and authorship misconduct. To confirm the originality of all submitted manuscripts, we use iThenticate for similarity checks against prior publications. More details on our ethical policies can be found here.

License

TSP journals publish open access articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License, unless a journal-specific addendum states otherwise. CC BY permits anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, translate, adapt, text-mine, and reuse the article for commercial or non-commercial purposes, provided the original authors and source are properly credited and any changes are indicated.

Subscription (pay-to-read) articles are published under standard copyright transfer or exclusive license arrangements as set out in the relevant Journal Publishing Agreement.

For full details on copyright, licensing, author rights, and self-archiving, please refer to TSP’s Copyright and Licensing Policy.

Article Processing Charges (APC)

TSP publishes all its journals as fully open access. There are no external funding sources or financial sponsorships; therefore, an Article Processing Charge (APC) is required to cover the costs associated with peer review management, copyediting, production services, data conversion, and content dissemination, among other publishing functions. There are no charges for declined articles. Some items (Editorials, Corrections, Retractions, etc.) are published free of charge.

More details of APC details can be found here.

Archiving & Repository Policy

All journals published by TSP are assigned Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and registered with Crossref, a nonprofit organization that provides DOI registration and metadata linking services to enhance the discoverability and accessibility of scholarly content. Additionally, all published content is archived in Portico, ensuring permanent digital preservation for scholarly journals.

TSP supports author self-archiving in accordance with its Copyright and Licensing Policy and applicable journal-specific addenda:

· Preprints (submitted manuscripts) may be shared publicly anywhere and at any time.

· For subscription (pay-to-read) articles, the Accepted Manuscript (AAM/Postprint) may be publicly posted only after a 24-month embargo from publication of the Version of Record, provided that it is clearly labeled as an Accepted Manuscript, does not mimic the published layout, includes full citation and a DOI link to the Version of Record, and carries a CC BY-NC-ND end-user license (or other TSP-specified repository notice). During the embargo, AAMs may be shared privately with co-authors or known colleagues but not posted publicly.

· For subscription articles, the Version of Record (published article) may be shared privately for teaching, conference purposes, or with known colleagues, but may not be publicly posted on websites or repositories without prior permission.

· For open access articles, the Version of Record may be publicly shared and archived under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License, with proper attribution.

For full details, please refer to TSP’s Copyright and Licensing Policy.

Memberships and Partnerships