ISPEC Journal of Agricultural Sciences is open access, and all content of the journal is made available free of charge to readers and to the institutions with which those readers are affiliated.
Definition of Open Access
ISPEC Journal of Agricultural Sciences adopts the Budapest Open Access Statement (BOAI, 2002) definition of open access: “By ‘open access’ to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet…”. Readers may, for non-commercial purposes, access the full text of articles, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to them without seeking permission from the publisher or the author. All content published in the journal is made immediately available without charge. No version of the journal’s content is made available through paid access on any platform. This revision tracks the wording and logic of the dedicated Open Access Policy page rather than the shorter /etik summary page.
Licensing and Copyright
Open Access License: CC BY-NC 4.0
By submitting their work to the journal, authors are deemed to accept the following terms:
-The copyright of the published article belongs to the author.
-Authors grant the journal not only the right to publish and distribute the article, but also the right to identify itself as the first/original publisher.
-Authors grant third parties the right to use the article, provided proper attribution is given.
-“All commercial rights related to the article belong to the authors.” should be refined to “All commercial rights relating to the article belong to the authors.”
These edits align the draft with the journal’s Licensing Policy, Copyright Policy, and downloadable Copyright Release Agreement.
Scope of the License
Under CC BY-NC 4.0:
-Share: You may copy and redistribute the work.
-Adapt: You may modify and build upon the work.
Conditions:
-Attribution must be given ; appropriate credit must be provided, a link to the license must be included, and any changes made must be indicated.
-Commercial use is prohibited.
-No additional legal or technical restrictions may be imposed.
This is the minimum complete formulation supported by the journal’s Licensing Policy and consistent with DOAJ’s public licensing guidance.
Embargo Policy
The journal does not impose any embargo on articles published under its open access publishing model; the Version of Record is freely accessible immediately upon publication under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. A 6-month embargo is applied for authors depositing the accepted manuscript (postprint) in an institutional repository; details of this embargo are provided in the Self-Archiving Policy (link).
DOAJ-Compliant Metadata Policy
The journal provides a minimum metadata set for each article in line with DOAJ requirements, including:
-Author information (names and affiliations)
-ORCID ID ORCID iDs
-Title and abstract
-Keywords
-DOI
-License information
-Publication date
The terminology “ORCID iDs” is the correct form used on the policy pages and reflected on article pages.
Archiving and Access
Articles published in this journal are digitally archived in LOCKSS and CLOCKSS. The current archiving policy also identifies PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) as part of the journal’s long-term digital preservation infrastructure. The journal publicly exposes OAI-PMH, LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, and RSS as technical access points.
This wording is more complete than a LOCKSS/CLOCKSS-only formulation and is the better audit-standard rendering of the current public record.
Open Access Start Date
Open-access start year: 2017.
Last update time: 04.04.2026