Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

      The Academic Science Journal (ASJ) is an open journal, therefore there are no fees required for downloading any publications by readers, authors, and institutions. ASJ applies the license of CC BY (a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license). The license ensures that the article will be available as widely as possible and that the article can be included in any scientific archive and allows authors to keep ownership of the copyright of their articles. But this license permits any user to download, extract, print out, archive, and reuse, so long as appropriate credit is given to the authors and the source of the work.

Licenses and Copyright

The following policy applies in The Academic Science Journal (ASJ).

• If your manuscript contains content such as images, photos, tables, figures, etc., that you or your co-authors do not own, ASJ will require you to give us a proof that the owner of that contents has given you written permission to use it, and has approved of the CC BY license being applied to their contents. ASJ provide a form you can use to ask for and obtain permission from them if you do not have owner permission, we will ask you to remove that content and/or replace it with other content that you own or have such permission to use. Don't assume that you can use any content you find on the Internet.

• ASJ applies Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.
• Authors assume that if they previously published a paper through another publisher, they own the rights to that content and they can freely use that content in their paper. Some publishers allow free and unrestricted re-use of article content they own. Other publishers use licenses that allow re-use only if the same license is applied by the person or publisher re-using the content. If the paper was published under a CC BY license or another license that allows free and unrestricted use, you may use the content in your ASJ paper provided that you give proper attribution, as explained above. If the content was published under a more restrictive license, you must ascertain what rights you have under that license. At a minimum. Contact that ASJ if you have any questions about the license. If the license does not permit you to use the content in a paper that will be covered by an unrestricted license, you must obtain written permission from the publisher to use the content in your ASJ Please do not include any content in your ASJ paper which you do not have rights to use.
• If any relevant accompanying data is submitted to repositories with stated licensing policies, the policies should not be more restrictive than CC BY.
• ASJ reserves the right to remove any images, photos, figures, tables, and captures illustrations, video files and audio, from any paper, whether before or after publication, if we have reason to believe that the content was included in your paper without permission from the owner of the content.

References

Marshall, G.C. and H.W. Ohm 1987. Yield responses of 16 winter wheat cultivars to row spacing and seeding rate. Agronomy Journal .79:1027-1030