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Open Access and Copyright Policy

1. Commitment to Open Access

INSS Press journals are a fully Gold Open Access journals. In alignment with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), we provide immediate, permanent, and free-of-charge access to the full text of all published articles. There are no registration requirements or "pay-per-view" fees for readers. We further adhere to the Plan S principles and the Berlin Declaration, ensuring that research is treated as a global public good.

2. Licensing and Author Rights

To ensure the widest possible dissemination, INSS Press utilizes Creative Commons (CC) licenses:

  • Default License: Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as they credit the original creation.
  • Copyright Retention: Authors retain the full copyright of their work without restrictions.
  • Alternative Licenses: Upon request, and where required by specific funding mandates, authors may opt for more restrictive licenses (e.g., CC BY-NC-ND), provided they disclose these requirements during the submission process.

3. Self-Archiving (Green Open Access)

INSS Press actively encourages authors to deposit their work in institutional or subject-specific repositories (e.g., PubMed Central, arXiv, RePEc).

  • Version Policy: Authors are permitted to archive the Pre-print (pre-refereeing), Author’s Accepted Manuscript (post-refereeing), and the Publisher’s Version (Version of Record) without any embargo period.
  • Sherpa Romeo: INSS Press maintains our archiving policies in the Sherpa Romeo database to assist authors in verifying compliance with their institutional mandates.

4. Metadata and Machine Readability

To ensure that research published in INSS Pres journals is discoverable by Scopus, Google Scholar, and other major databases:

  • Persistent Identifiers: Every article is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) via Crossref.
  • Machine-Readable Licenses: INSS Press embeds CC license information into the article’s metadata (XMP/XML) to ensure that automated search tools can identify the open-access status.
  • OAI-PMH: INSS Press website supports the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) to allow for seamless indexing.

5. Digital Preservation and Archiving

INSS Press is committed to the permanent availability and preservation of the scholarly record. To guarantee that all research published across our portfolio remains accessible in the event a specific journal or the publishing house itself ceases operation, we utilize the following high-standard services:

  • CLOCKSS/LOCKSS: All INSS Press journals participate in these globally distributed "dark archives." This ensures that the full-text content of every article is preserved in perpetuity and can be "triggered" for public access if the content is no longer available from any publisher.
  • National Library and Institutional Repositories: We ensure that metadata and full-text PDFs are deposited in national digital archives and relevant institutional repositories to provide multiple layers of redundancy.
  • Permanent Identifiers (DOI): Every article published by an INSS Press journals is assigned a permanent Digital Object Identifier (DOI) via Crossref. This ensures that the citation remains stable and the link to the research is never broken, regardless of changes to website URLs.
  • Redundant Server Backups: In addition to external archives, INSS Press maintains encrypted, redundant backups of all editorial assets and published files on secured, geographically separated institutional servers.