Help - Open Access

Open Access (OA) refers to online research outputs that are free of all restrictions on access and free of many restrictions on use. OA is fast becoming the norm in the dissemination of research outputs.

Scipedia embraces OA as a means to fulfill its mission. Scipedia offers free content so that the published papers and other public documents are available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. This means that Scipedia content can be distributed and linked in accordance with the provisions of this license.

Exceptionally, a document or publication in Scipedia may have a more restrictive OA license. Please confirm the conditions of the license in the document page before transforming, or building upon the material

Scipedia must not incorporate materials that violate the rights of their authors or works with a licensing scheme incompatible with the Scipedia scheme.

Scipedia offers an innovative platform providing free publishing and open access services to disseminate the results of the scientific and technical work. This means that:

  • No fee is payable as a publishing cost
  • No embargo period is applicable to the published work
  • Free public and immediate access is granted to the published article

The published articles in Scipedia will be licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. Though the Terms of Use have the final say, in essence the CC BY-NC-SA license allows:

  • Anyone to copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits (attribution) in the manner specified by these.
  • Anyone to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only for non-commercial purposes.
  • Anyone to distribute derivative works only under a license identical ("not more restrictive") to the license that governs the original work.

Please note that, exceptionally, a document or publication in Scipedia may have a more restrictive open access license. Please confirm the conditions of the license in the document page before transforming, or building upon the material.

Scipedia's 'collections' offer the possibility to create repositories of technical and scientific documentation, including self-archiving papers. Self-archiving means making publicly accessible online an electronic version of a previously published document. Self-archiving can increase the visibility and impact of your work. You can self-archive your work on Scipedia by uploading full-text versions of your published papers.

Many journal policies allow you to make the full-text pre-print (i.e. manuscript submitted document for publication) of your published article publicly available. Furthermore, most journals allow sharing the accepted manuscript after an embargo period. But self-archiving permissions vary between publishers and journals. You can find details of many publisher copyright policies on Sherpa/RoMEO. You should always check your publisher conditions to make sure you are not going to breach copyright conditions before publishing your article in Scipedia.

Scipedia allows updating the citation of any self-archiving paper published in collections, by including its Digital Object Identifier (DOI). We encourage authors to include the URL to Scipedia in the citations of the paper, in order to help researches to find the supplementary material and discussion pages available in Scipedia.com.

Scipedia must not incorporate materials that violate their author's rights or works with a licensing scheme incompatible with the Scipedia scheme.

Scipedia respects the intellectual property rights and copyright of others. If you believe that a copyrighted work that you own (or a work of a third party who you represent) has been infringed on this website, please notify us.