Open Access (OA)

The article shall be published under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license whereby the author retains his/her copyright for every publication. It should be noted that the OA model has no monetary reward for the authors. Click here.

Open Controlled Access (OCA)

The article shall be published under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0) license whereby the author retains his/her copyright for every publication. In our newly proposed OCA model, both authors and reviewers are rewarded. This is not the case for OA, subscription-based model, and CA. The publisher also provides rewards for the review provided by reviewers for each articles. Click here.

Subscription

The subscription model allows subscriptions on per article and journal by yearly basis. It should be noted that both OCA and subscription models apply similar license (Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International [CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0]) whereby the publisher retains the copyright for every publication. The model does not offer monetary reward for the authors.

Similarity and differences	Open access (OA)	Open controlled access (OCA)	Subscription
Article processing charges (APC)	√	√	x
Availability	Freely available	Portion of the article blinded. Access upon subscription.	Full article access upon subscription.
License	Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0)	Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0)	Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Copyright	Author	Publisher	Publisher
Author reward	x	√	x
Reviewer reward	√	√	√
Self-Archive	√ Link the article to the journal site by Doi	√ Link the article to the journal site by Doi Embargo Period may apply	√ Link the article to the journal site by Doi Embargo period may apply

The Author(s) warrant that permission to publish the article has not been previously assigned elsewhere.

Author(s) shall retain the copyright of their work and grant the Journal/Publisher right for the first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under:

• OA (Open Access) - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows for the copying, distribution and transmission of the work, provided the correct attribution of the original creator is stated. Author retains copyright; adaptation and remixing are permitted.
• OCA (Open Controlled Access) - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows for the copying, distribution and transmission of the work, provided the correct attribution of the original creator is stated. Author MUST transfers copyright to publisher; distribution of adaptation and remixing article are NOT permitted.

Both licenses restricted the use of the content for commercial purpose. This broad license intends to facilitate free access to, as well as the unrestricted reuse of, original works of all types for non-commercial purposes.