Open Access Policy
Commitment to immediate free access, global knowledge dissemination, and open licensing under Creative Commons standards.
1. Open Access Statement
NAS Publisher operates under a fully open-access model. All research articles published in our journals are made immediately and freely accessible online to the global scientific community without any subscription charges or registration barriers. We believe that unrestricted access to academic research fosters broader knowledge exchange and accelerates scientific advancement worldwide.
2. Licensing and Copyright (CC BY-NC)
In alignment with international ethical standards for open access publishing, articles published by NAS Publisher are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Under this license, users are free to:
- Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material.
Under the following mandatory terms:
- Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- NonCommercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
- No additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
3. Author Copyright Retention
Authors retain unrestricted copyright and all underlying intellectual property rights to their published works. Publishing with NAS Publisher does not transfer exclusive copyright to the publisher, empowering authors to deposit their final published versions in institutional repositories, personal websites, or academic networking platforms while ensuring proper citation to the journal.
4. Archiving and Digital Preservation
To ensure long-term availability and persistent digital preservation of all published content, NAS Publisher maintains robust digital backup archives and complies with structural indexing repositories to protect scholarly output against data loss.