Open Access

Immediate, full open access. Every article is freely available in full text from the moment it is published. There is no subscription, no registration, no payment, and no embargo for readers.

1. What open access means at JACR

JACR follows the Budapest Open Access Initiative understanding of open access. Readers anywhere may read, download, copy, print, distribute, search, link to, and text- and data-mine the full text of every article, and may reuse articles for any other lawful purpose within the terms of the article licence, without asking the journal or the authors for permission.

2. What the journal guarantees

  • No paywall and no delay. There is no subscription tier, no pay-per-view, and no delayed-open-access or embargo period. The version of record is open from the day of publication.
  • No registration to read. Readers are never required to create an account, supply an email address, or accept tracking in order to read an article.
  • Full text, not abstracts. Every article is published as a complete full-text PDF. JACR does not operate an abstract-only model.
  • Persistent identification. Every article carries a registered DOI through Crossref under the prefix 10.37275, so that the version of record remains citable and resolvable.
  • Machine access. Article metadata is exposed for harvesting through OAI-PMH and is distributed to indexing services, so that discovery does not depend on the journal’s own website.
  • Preservation. Continued availability is addressed in Digital Preservation and Self-Archiving.

3. Cost to readers and to authors

Open access is free for readers in every case. The cost of publication is met as set out on the Article Processing Charges page, which states the charge in full, including any waiver. No charge of any kind is ever levied on a reader, and the ability to pay has no bearing on an editorial decision; acceptance is determined solely by the Peer Review Policy.

4. Reuse, rights, and third-party material

What readers may do with an article is governed by its licence, set out in Licensing. Who owns the article is set out in Copyright. Third-party material reproduced inside an article — a figure, table, or long quotation from another source — may carry separate rights, which are indicated at that point in the article; the article licence does not extend to it, and a user wishing to reuse it must seek permission from the rights holder.

5. Self-archiving by authors

Authors may deposit the submitted, accepted, and published versions of their own article in an institutional or subject repository, on a personal or departmental page, and on scholarly networks, without embargo and without asking the journal. The deposited copy should cite the version of record and link to its DOI. Details are in Digital Preservation and Self-Archiving.

Read together with Licensing, Copyright, Article Processing Charges, and Digital Preservation and Self-Archiving.