Open Access Policy
Open Access Policy
Global Forests provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
The term Open Access (OA) was introduced collectively by:
- Budapest Open Access Initiative;
- Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing; and
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
Their common ground is referred to as the 'BBB' definition, which defines Open Access to peer-reviewed research literature as 'Freely available literature on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download or copy and use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.'
Open access is a new cohort in digital publishing arena where the author's intrinsic merit of research and scholarly contributions is made available online without any specific charges.
Manuscripts published in the Global Forests are under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), providing immediate and permanent access for free to all types of original works. The license grants copyrights to the author concerned and make the articles available for their distribution. Everyone can use the manuscripts in productive way for the benefits of the society. However, the authors are requested to maintain the citation to the original source.
