Journal Policy
Open Access Policy
The journal promotes the dissemination of the high quality research by providing immediate open access. The open access of the journal means its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.
Copyright and Licensing
Author(s) retain the copyright of articles published in this journal, with first publication rights granted to ARSNET.
All journal content is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License that allows others to use the articles for non-commercial purposes with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Publication Policy
All manuscripts are subjected to double-blind review to maintain the high standard quality of the content. Author(s) are responsible to ensure that the submitted manuscript does not contain any identification of the author(s).
The journal does not charge any submission or processing fees for the author(s) to submit and publish their manuscripts in this journal.
The journal accepts manuscripts written in the English language. In order to ensure the readability and the quality of the journal, all manuscripts must go through a language editing and copy editing before publication.
The journal only accepts original manuscripts that have not been previously published nor being considered for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are subjected to similarity check procedure to identify any indication of plagiarism.
Digital Preservation and Repository Policy
All published articles are deposited to Portico. All versions of the papers (preprints, postprints and published versions) are stored in the publisher's archive.
The published version is openly accessible and can be located or deposited at any repository and any website. There is no embargo period for accessing the published full text article. The owner of the copyright is author(s) under the license CC-BY-NC.
The pre-print (submitted version) and post-print (accepted version) are not accessible for open access to avoid confusion and maintain the accuracy and consistency of articles across various repositories. The published version can be shared, posted, or deposited with acknowledgement to the source through complete citation with DOI attached.