Open Access Information and Policy
- everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in KALANJIYAM journals;
- everyone is free to re-use the published material if proper accreditation/citation of the original publication is given;
- open access publication is supported by the authors’ institutes or research funding agencies by payment of a comparatively low Article Processing Charge (APC) for accepted articles.
Permissions
No special permission is required to reuse all or part of article published by KALANJIYAM, including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. Reuse of an article does not imply endorsement by the authors or KALANJIYAM. Furthermore, no special permission is required for authors to submit their work to external repositories. This policy extends to all versions of a paper: submitted, accepted, and published.
External Open Access Resources
Those who are new to the concept of open access might find the following websites or the Open Access Explained! video informative:
Open Access Explained!
Meaning of Open Access
In accordance with major definitions of open access in scientific literature (namely the Budapest, Berlin, and Bethesda declarations), KALANJIYAM defines open access by the following conditions:
- peer-reviewed literature is freely available without subscription or price barriers,
- literature is immediately released in open access format (no embargo period), and
- published material can be re-used without obtaining permission as long as a correct citation to the original publication is given.