Open Access & Policies
These principles apply to every journal published by TSI–SORG. Each journal sets out its detailed policies on its own site.
Open access
- All content is free to readers.
- Anyone may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of articles without asking permission, provided the work is properly cited.
Licensing and copyright
- Authors keep the copyright in their work.
- Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
- Anyone may share and adapt the work, with credit to the authors and the source.
Peer review
- All research articles go through double-blind peer review.
- Each manuscript is assessed by at least two independent reviewers.
- Editorial decisions rest on scientific merit alone.
Publication ethics
Our journals follow the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) on authorship, conflicts of interest, research ethics, corrections and retractions, and the handling of misconduct. Manuscripts are screened for similarity with iThenticate before review.
Identifiers and preservation
- Every article receives a Crossref DOI.
- Published content is preserved through the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), so that it stays available even if a journal stops publishing.
Privacy
Names and e-mail addresses are collected only for the stated purposes of the journals and are not shared with outside parties.
