Zenith Publications is committed to providing immediate, unrestricted, and permanent open access to the scholarly research we publish.
All journals published by Zenith Publications follow a fully open access publishing model. All scholarly articles are freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription, registration, payment, or other access barriers.
Open access means that the copyright holder grants users the right to access and reuse published scholarly work under an open license. Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and otherwise use the full text of published articles for lawful purposes, subject to the terms of the applicable Creative Commons license.
There are no embargo periods. The published Version of Record is freely accessible from the date of publication and remains permanently available online.
Authors retain the copyright to their published work, unless otherwise agreed in writing.
By publishing with Zenith Publications, authors grant Zenith Publications a non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, archive, and make the article publicly available as part of the scholarly record.
Copyright in the article remains with the author(s), while the applicable Creative Commons license grants readers and other users clearly defined rights to access and reuse the published work.
The copyright statement applicable to each article is clearly displayed on the article’s webpage and in the published full-text PDF.
Zenith Publications uses Creative Commons licenses to provide clear and transparent reuse rights for published scholarly content.
Unless a different Creative Commons license is explicitly identified on the individual article, Zenith Publications publishes scholarly articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Under the CC BY 4.0 license, users may:
Users must provide appropriate attribution to the original author(s), cite the published source, provide a link to the applicable license, and indicate if changes were made.
The applicable Creative Commons license is clearly identified on each article’s webpage and within the published article/PDF.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0):
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
All published scholarly articles are available through their individual article webpages and full-text versions.
Zenith Publications does not require readers to:
The full text is available immediately upon publication.
Subject to the applicable Creative Commons license, users may reuse published content, including text, tables, figures, and other scholarly material, provided that the required attribution and licensing conditions are followed.
Researchers and institutions may also include published articles in:
Any third-party material contained within an article that is not covered by the article’s Creative Commons license will be identified appropriately, together with its applicable copyright or permission information.
Zenith Publications supports author self-archiving and encourages authors to deposit their work in appropriate repositories.
Authors may deposit:
in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, or appropriate preprint and research-sharing platforms.
No embargo period is applied by Zenith Publications to author self-archiving.
Authors should provide a complete citation and, where possible, a link to the official Zenith Publications Version of Record.
Zenith Publications is committed to maintaining continued access to published scholarly content.
We:
Where applicable, Zenith Publications prepares content in formats suitable for services such as PubMed Central and other scholarly repositories and indexing systems.
If a journal’s publishing operations are transferred, suspended, or discontinued, Zenith Publications will take reasonable steps to preserve access to the published scholarly record and maintain the availability of published content.
Zenith Publications considers open access to be an essential part of responsible scholarly communication.
Open access does not reduce the editorial or peer-review standards applied to submitted manuscripts. Articles are evaluated according to the editorial policies, peer-review procedures, research integrity requirements, and scope of the relevant journal.
Our journals follow established principles of responsible scholarly publishing and maintain policies relating to:
Our objective is to make reliable scholarly research freely accessible, discoverable, reusable, and permanently available to researchers, practitioners, institutions, and the public.
Zenith Publications believes that scientific knowledge should be accessible to the global research community.
Our open access policy is therefore based on four principles:
Immediate Access
Research is freely available immediately after publication.
Open Licensing
Published articles are released under clear Creative Commons licensing terms.
Author Rights
Authors retain copyright to their work, subject to the terms of the publishing agreement.
Long-Term Accessibility
Zenith Publications works to maintain permanent access to the published scholarly record.
For questions regarding open access, copyright, licensing, or author rights, please contact the Zenith Publications editorial office.