Open Access Statement

LICENCE

All IOTS Publishers Open Access Journal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

SERVICES & COSTS

The IOTS Publishers Open Access publishing model enables readers to access research at no cost. In order to our publications freely accessible to readers we charge a Article Processing Charge for accepted manuscripts, which helps us cover the costs of our editorial workflow and for the production of articles.

Our Open Access Journal Publication Fee starts at $250 per article. Services provided for this fee include:

  • Project management during the publishing process
  • English language copy-editing and/or language polishing
  • Indexing in all repositories
  • Searchability and archiving: electronic citation and linking via DOI
  • Typesetting
  • Open Access e-Journal in PDF
  • Permanent and unrestricted online access
  • International marketing and dissemination
  • Copyrights remain with Authors/Editors conform CC-BY-NC 4.0)

 The Open Access Proceedings Publication fees is $200 followed by $50 per published article. Services provided for this fee include:

  • Search-ability and archiving: electronic citation and linking via DOI
  • Permanent and unrestricted online access 
  • Copyrights remain with Authors/Editors conform CC-BY-NC 4.0) 

The proceedings need to be submitted in camera ready format strictly following the proceedings’ guidelines. 

REVIEW POLICIES

All IOTS Publishers Open Access Journals are subject to review prior to publishing.

On initial submitting, proposals are reviewed by the Editor of a relevant IOTS Publishers Journals for appeal and scientific relevance, and whether the topic falls within the scope of the Journal.

Full manuscripts are checked for plagiarism matters, and thereafter the articles are reviewed (single-blind). Reviewers are sourced from the IOTS Publishers authors network, or are recommended by our existing Journal editors. Article Authors and Editors are sent the review comments for their information and comments where necessary and required.