Open Access Policy

The Academic Science Journal (ASJ) is a fully open-access journal. All published articles are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, without subscription or access charges for readers, authors, institutions, or libraries.

ASJ supports the unrestricted dissemination of scientific knowledge and allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and use the published articles in accordance with the journal’s open-access license.

Creative Commons License

ASJ publishes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Under this license, users are permitted to copy, distribute, display, perform, adapt, and reuse the published work, including for commercial purposes, provided that proper credit is given to the original author(s), the article title, the journal, and the publisher, and that a link to the license is provided. Any changes made to the work should also be clearly indicated.

Copyright

Authors retain the copyright of their published articles. By publishing in ASJ, authors grant the journal the right to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.

The CC BY 4.0 license allows maximum dissemination and reuse of the published work while ensuring that authors receive appropriate credit for their original contribution.

Third-Party Material

Authors are responsible for ensuring that any third-party material included in their manuscripts, such as figures, tables, photographs, illustrations, maps, screenshots, or other copyrighted content, is used legally and ethically.

If a manuscript contains material that the authors do not own, the authors must obtain written permission from the copyright holder where required. The permission must allow the material to be published under the journal’s open-access license or otherwise clearly state the permitted terms of reuse.

Authors should not assume that content found on the internet may be freely reused. Proper citation alone may not be sufficient when permission is required.

If appropriate permission cannot be provided, the journal may ask the authors to remove or replace the material before publication.

Reuse of Previously Published Material

If authors wish to reuse material from their own previously published work, they must properly cite the original source and ensure that reuse is permitted under the license or copyright terms of the previous publication.

Material previously published under CC BY or another compatible open license may be reused with proper attribution. Material published under a more restrictive license may require written permission from the original publisher or copyright holder.

Data and Supplementary Material

When authors submit supplementary material or deposit research data in repositories, they are encouraged to use open licenses that allow appropriate access, reuse, and citation, provided that this does not conflict with ethical, legal, confidentiality, or data protection requirements.

Removal of Unauthorized Material

ASJ reserves the right to request the removal, replacement, correction, or clarification of any material included in a manuscript if there is reason to believe that it was used without proper permission, attribution, or legal right.

If a copyright or licensing concern is identified after publication, the journal may issue a correction, update the article, remove the unauthorized material where legally required, or take other appropriate action in accordance with the journal’s publication ethics policies.