Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

Journal CERITA (Creative Education of Research in Information Technology and Artificial Informatics) strongly believes that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge, accelerates scientific discovery, and maximizes the visibility and impact of the authors' work.

1. Free Availability and Dissemination

In accordance with the BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) definition of open access, all articles published in Journal CERITA are available online immediately upon publication.

  • For Readers: Anyone is allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without any financial, legal, or technical barriers.
  • No Paywalls: There are no subscription fees, paywalls, or hidden charges required for individual researchers or institutions to access, read, and cite the published papers.

2. Licensing Terms

To support the open-access model, all scientific papers published in Journal CERITA are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This license permits anyone to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), provided that the original work is properly cited, attributed to the authors, and any derivative works are distributed under the same license framework (ShareAlike).

3. Retention of Copyright

Authors publishing with Journal CERITA retain the full copyright of their articles without any restrictions. Authors grant the journal the right of first publication, allowing the work to be officially archived and presented on the Open Journal System (OJS) platform under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license framework.

4. Benefits for Authors

By implementing a strict Open Access Policy, Journal CERITA ensures significant advantages for its contributors, including:

  • Higher citation potential due to unrestricted global visibility.
  • Rapid dissemination of research results to a wide international audience.
  • Full compliance with open-access mandates from national and international funding agencies or universities.