Open Access Policy

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 Open Access Information and Policy

TSP journals may operate under different publishing models. Where a journal offers an open access option (including hybrid journals), authors may choose to publish open access.

Open access articles published by TSP are made freely available online and are licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License, provided proper attribution to the original authors and source is given.

Open access publication is supported through the payment of an Article Processing Charge (APC) only when authors select the open access option, in line with the applicable journal’s APC policy.

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.

Advantages of Open Access

Open access provides greater availability and visibility of academic works, which leads to more citations and greater research impact. For researchers and authors, open access increases the audience for a publication far beyond the audience of any non-open-access journal. For readers, open access provides barrier-free access to the literature needed for research; access is not constrained by subscription costs or library budgets.

Open access articles are typically published online rapidly in TSP journals following acceptance and production.

Data Sharing Policies

Authors are encouraged to share the data and materials underlying their results to support verification, reproducibility, and further research. Research data can be uploaded to repositories with access information included in the article or appended in supplementary files. Any restrictions on the availability of the published research materials or relevant information therein must be disclosed to the editors at the time of submission and cited in the submitted manuscript.

Where research data are made publicly available, authors are responsible for applying an appropriate data license on the repository or platform where the data are hosted.

Data Repository Guidance

Authors are advised to deposit data in a recognized data repository where possible, or to generalist repositories if no suitable community resource is available.

We encourage researchers to consider the FAIR Principles when depositing data. We further advise researchers to refer to FAIRsharing.org and re3data.org for searching suitable repositories; both provide lists of certified data repositories.

Data Availability Statement

Authors are required to provide a Data Availability Statement detailing where data associated with a paper can be found and how it can be accessed, including, where applicable, hyperlinks to datasets utilized or generated therein. The Data Availability Statement should be included in the submitted manuscript before the “References” section, clearly indicating the location and access manner of the study’s data being shared, and providing an explanation if data cannot be released.

For journal-specific requirements and recommended templates, please refer to the Instructions for Authors of the relevant journal.

During peer review, editors may request that data underpinning the findings be deposited in a suitable public repository. Where data are shared, authors must provide a Data Availability Statement with a repository link and appropriate dataset citation(s). Authors are responsible for the accuracy and integrity of the shared data, and compliance will be assessed during editorial and peer review.