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Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
In its editorial policy the "ACCESS: Access to science, business, innovation in digital economy" journal complies with the international standards for publication ethics.
The code of ethics refers to all participants in the publication process: publishers, editors, authors and reviewers. The rules concern ethical issues like: objectivity of reviewers and equal treatment of all articles and authors, originality and plagiarism, confidentiality, fraudulent citation and data, possible conflict of interest.
"ACCESS: Access to science, business, innovation in digital economy" is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against publication malpractice.
Authors who submit papers to "ACCESS: Access to science, business, innovation in digital economy" attest that their work is original and unpublished, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Fees and charges
The journal "ACCESS: Access to science, business, innovation in digital economy" is owned by ACCESS Press Publishing House.
The official partner of the ACCESS Press Publishing House is the Association for Cultural and Socio-Economic European Collaboration. The аssociation has multiple connections with universities and scientific organizations, and is working in the organization of international scientific conferences, which gives the journal a great exposure among those organizations and the scientific community, involved with them. The conferences, organized by the association, along with all their details are published on the Access Press website.
If there is no external funding, then the APC is 850 Euros. This publication fee has to be paid after submitted paper is reviewed and accepted for publishing. There are no article submission charges or article reviewing charges. The publication fee does not influence editorial decision making.
Please note that for papers accepted after 31 December 2023, an APC of EUR 950 will apply.
Conventional paper length does not exceed 8000 words. In case a paper is longer than 8000 words, an additional lump sum of 150 Euros is charged.
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Privacy Statement
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Copyright Notice
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal “ACCESS: Access to science, business, innovation in digital economy" right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License International CC-BY that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
The Journal allows Author(s) to deposit all versions of their paper in an institutional repository and non-commercial subject-based repositories, such as PubMed Central, Europe PMC, arXiv and other repositories, or to publish it on Author's personal website and departmental website (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.).
Full bibliographic information (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages) about the original publication must be provided and links must be made to the article's DOI and the license.
ACCESS Press Publishing House protects your rights as an author and guarantees that any juridical information and questions regarding author’s right will be regulated.
Article publishing rights
Journal articles, published by ACCESS Press, are published under a CC-BY 4.0 licence which allows readers to reuse the content without restriction. Authors retain copyright in their articles but grant ACCESS Press the right of the first publication. Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by ACCESS Press.
Conflict-of-Interest Statement for publications
Each submitted manuscript to the journal "ACCESS: Access to science, business, innovation in digital economy" should be accompanied with information disclosing all relationships that can be considered as representing a potential conflict of interest.
Preprint
Preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint version is available for free, before a paper is published in a journal.
Types of manuscripts
The editorial board welcomes for publishing all authors who would contribute for achieving the objectives and scope of the journal. We publish articles in the following groups: Conceptual papers; Research papers; Case Study; Micro articles; Abstract of doctoral dissertations.
Editorial Correspondence
Editorial correspondence, including manuscripts for submission, should be addressed to: submissions@access-bg.org
"ACCESS: Access to science, business, innovation in digital economy" journal starts to operate a continuous publication model, so articles are published as soon as they are ready. The ACCESS Press team do their best to upload archives of the journals to the new system and make the content accessible for readers as soon as possible.