Open Access Policies
Open Access (OA) refers to unrestricted online access to scholarly research publications along with the unrestricted usage of these publications in this digital and big-data era. This term and the concept of“Open Access”was first defined in three statements: the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003), and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003). Ant according to the Open Access model promotes science and education and benefits researchers and students because:
- Publications are immediately available online without subscription or price barriers;
- Publications are free to be archived in any personal, institutional, or governmental repositories;
- Publications are free to be distributed or reused without asking for permission;
- Publications receive higher visibility by worldwide audience;
- Publications receive more citations due to higher publicity.
Copyright License
We publish all Ant journals under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License, unless otherwise noted. Under this license, authors agree to make articles, including data, graphics, and supplements, legally available for reuse, without permission or fees, for virtually any purpose. Any individual or institution is free to copy, distribute, reproduce, or reuse these publications, as long as the author and original source are properly cited.
Please note that some articles (especially Reviews) may contain figures, tables or text taken from other publications, for which Ant does not hold the copyright or the right to re-license the published material. Please note that you should inquire with the original copyright holder (usually the original publisher or authors), whether or not this material can be re-used.
All papers published in Ant journals have a Logo embedded with the Creative Commons by Attribution License.