Scientific Scholar is committed to ensuring the long-term accessibility, preservation, dissemination, and discoverability of scholarly content published on its platform. We support open and responsible scholarly communication and work closely with journal owners, editors, authors, libraries, indexing agencies, and preservation services to maintain permanent access to published research
Scientific Scholar believes that scholarly knowledge should be accessible to all. We support both Diamond Open Access and Gold Open Access publishing models in partnership with scholarly societies, academic institutions, and journal owners.
All open-access journals published by Scientific Scholar undergo double-blind peer review and are made freely accessible worldwide in HTML and PDF formats under applicable Creative Commons licenses.
Unless otherwise specified, articles published by Scientific Scholar are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. This license permits users to share and adapt the material for non-commercial purposes provided appropriate credit is given and derivative works are distributed under the same license terms.
For journals or archival content migrated from other publishers, the applicable license may differ depending on the original publishing agreement and licensing terms in effect at the time of publication. The specific license applicable to each article is clearly indicated on the article webpage and PDF.
Authors generally retain copyright of their work unless otherwise specified by the journal or society owner.
Through close collaboration with scholarly societies, editors, and academic communities, Scientific Scholar seeks to promote equitable access to reliable scientific knowledge and support the global dissemination of research.
Scientific Scholar recognizes the importance of preserving scholarly content for future generations. To ensure long-term digital preservation and continued accessibility, all journals published on the Scientific Scholar platform participate in Portico, a trusted third-party digital preservation and archiving service.
Portico preserves published scholarly content and ensures continued access in the event that content becomes unavailable from the publisher’s platform for any reason.
In addition to Portico preservation, Scientific Scholar maintains:
Scientific Scholar supports responsible sharing and dissemination of scholarly work. Unless restricted by individual journal policies or licensing terms, authors may:
Authors are encouraged to cite the final published version of record using the assigned DOI when sharing or archiving their work.
Scientific Scholar is committed to maintaining the integrity and permanence of the scholarly record. Published articles remain permanently accessible except in rare circumstances requiring correction, retraction, or removal in accordance with internationally recognized publication ethics guidelines and applicable legal requirements.
Corrections, errata, expressions of concern, and retractions are managed transparently in accordance with COPE recommendations and journal editorial policies.
Scientific Scholar disseminates article metadata to major indexing, abstracting, and discovery services to maximize the visibility and accessibility of published research. Metadata may include:
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