Open Access Information and Policy
All articles published by Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences (JENRS) are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. This means:
- everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in JENRS, and
- everyone is free to re-use the published material if proper accreditation/citation of the original publication is given.
- open access publication is supported by the authors’ institutes or research funding agencies by payment of a comparatively low Article Processing Charge (APC) for accepted articles.
JENRS started to publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution License and are now using the latest version of the CC BY-SA license, which grants authors the most extensive rights. This means that all articles published in JENRS, including data, graphics, and supplements, can be linked from external sources, scanned by search engines, re-used by text mining applications or websites, blogs, etc. free of charge under the sole condition of proper accreditation of the source and original publisher.
There are various advantages of open access of authors. Some advantages are listed below
- Everyone can freely access and download the full text of all articles published with JENRS: readers of open access journals, i.e., mostly other researchers, do not need to pay any subscription or pay-per-view charges to read articles published by JENRS.
- Open access paper get high citations.
- JENRS has a very low publication cost and also provides various discounts to authors.
- Accepted articles are typically published online more rapidly in JENRS than those of traditional journals.