Open Access Policy

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This journal provides immediate access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global knowledge exchange.

This journal is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or / institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author. This is by the BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) definition of open access.