Open Access Policy

Arkus is a fully open-access journal. Every article is freely available online immediately upon publication.

No access barriers: readers do not need a subscription, registration, payment, or institutional login, and no embargo period applies.

Immediate and permanent access

Full-text articles and their metadata are available through the journal website without charge. The journal supports reading, downloading, sharing, linking, and other lawful reuse in accordance with the article license.

License and copyright

Authors retain copyright. Unless otherwise stated on an individual article, published work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). License terms and copyright ownership are stated separately on the Licensing Terms and Copyright and Author Rights pages.

Fees do not restrict reading

The article processing charge applies only after acceptance and does not affect reader access. Details are published in the Article Processing Charges policy.

Last updated: 25 August 2026.