OPEN ACCESS DECLARATION

[Journal Name] is founded on open-access principles, committed to providing scientists with free and unrestricted access.

The operational costs of [Journal Name] are subsidized by [Subsidizing Institution], which also covers the journal’s publishing costs. Authors are not required to pay an Article Processing Charge. In addition to subsidies from [Subsidizing Institution], [Journal Name] is supported by [Additional Supporting Institution].

License All content published in [Journal Name] is immediately made freely available online under an open-access model under a Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0 ). The copyright is retained by the author(s).

Archiving This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries, allowing those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.

Self-archiving policy [Journal Name] allows authors to deposit the Publisher’s version/PDF (not just Author Accepted version) in institutional and non-commercial repositories or to publish it on the Author’s personal website (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.) and/or departmental website, at any time after publication.