Open access policy

EIKI LTD. (European Institute of Knowledge and Innovation) Open Access Policy

EIKI LTD. is committed to the principle of open access, ensuring the immediate and barrier-free availability of all peer-reviewed research articles published in our journals. We believe that knowledge should be freely accessible to everyone, regardless of their institutional affiliation, geographic location, or financial resources.

Immediate Open Access

Upon publication, all articles in EIKI LTD. journals are openly accessible. This means that the full text of each article, including the PDF, is available on the journal website free of charge. No subscriptions or access fees are required.

Licensing

EIKI LTD. journals utilize open access licenses that permit users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles, and use them for any lawful purpose, provided that the original author and source are properly cited. The specific license used varies depending on the journal, but commonly includes Creative Commons (CC) licenses such as CC BY (Attribution).

Commitment to Open Access

EIKI LTD. strongly believes that open access is essential for advancing scientific knowledge and accelerating progress. We are committed to upholding this principle by ensuring immediate and unrestricted access to all research published in our journals.

This policy is effective immediately and applies to all articles published in EIKI LTD. journals. We encourage authors, readers, and other stakeholders to support and promote open access for the benefit of the scientific community and society as a whole.

Open access explanation

Open Access (OA) means that all the articles are freely available without any charge to the reader or the educational/scientific institution.

Users registered on the journal site are allowed to read, cite, download, distribute, or print whole texts of the articles or use them for any other lawful purpose without financial barriers or asking for preliminary permission from the author(s) or publisher.

To compare, subscription journals allow access to articles requiring payment, which is usually referred to as an individual or institutional subscription fee. In addition, one cannot download, share, or distribute the article without permission from the copyright holder.

Open-access journals benefits

Many academicians and practitioners highly appreciate open access policy as it has many advantages compared to subscription journals. The benefits include:

• Provides free citation and international visibility of citations as citations are the most important aspect of the research itself, its dissemination and evaluation of findings;
• Covers the larger audience, including scientists in developing countries, non-profit organization workers, students, and enthusiasts;
• Contributes to recognition by many funding agencies;
• Enhances the impact of research internationally;
• Increase of world scientific communication and boost scholar's international profile;
• Free and fast access to new knowledge and innovative ideas.

Open access legislature:

EIKI's Open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) in 2001.

You are welcome to find further information by visiting:

• The Directory of Open Access Journals website, where user's rights and the terms of copyright are explained (https://doaj.org/about/);
• the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities has become an international statement on open access and access to knowledge aimed at dissemination of knowledge (https://openaccess.mpg.de/67605/berlin_declaration_engl.pdf);
• the Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science that was signed to provide full open access for all scientific publications and to elaborate new approaches towards knowledge reuse, assessment, and evaluation (https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Amsterdam-call-for-action-on-open-science.pdf);
• the Vienna Principles: A Vision for Scholarly Communication in the 21^st Century is a set of 12 principles representing the basis of the future academic communication system. The principles include the following:
  1. Accessibility,
  2. Discoverability,
  3. Reusability,
  4. Reproducibility,
  5. Transparency,
  6. Understandability,
  7. Collaboration,
  8. Quality,
  9. Evaluation,
  10. Validated progress,
  11. Innovation
  12. Public good (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.55597);
• The Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity is aimed at research communities, scientific platforms, research institutions, and publishing houses to implement an efficient scientific publishing open access scheme (https://jussieucall.org/jussieu-call/).