The open access policy of Practical Science Press, including licence terms, APC waiver, self-archiving rights, and funder compliance.
Practical Science Press is a fully Gold Open Access publisher. Every article published in our journals is immediately and permanently free to read, download, share, and reuse by anyone, anywhere in the world — at no cost to readers or their institutions.
We operate under the conviction that removing financial barriers to scholarly knowledge is essential to advancing global knowledge equity.
All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. This means that anyone is free to:
Provided that appropriate credit is given to the original authors and source, a link to the licence is provided, and any changes made are indicated. Authors retain full copyright over their work.
In recognition of the Press's inaugural year, all article processing charges are fully waived for manuscripts accepted before 1 January 2027. Authors whose manuscripts are accepted before that date will incur no publication fee whatsoever. This policy applies regardless of the author's country of affiliation or funding status.
Following the waiver period, APC rates will be announced in advance, and a structured discount and waiver programme will remain in place for authors from low- and middle-income countries.
We publish all articles under CC BY 4.0 with immediate open access upon publication. CC BY 4.0 with no embargo period is the licence required by most major open access mandates, including Plan S, NIH, Wellcome Trust, UKRI, and the European Commission Horizon programme. Authors are advised to verify compliance with their specific funder requirements before submission.
Authors are permitted to deposit any version of their manuscript — including the accepted author manuscript and the published PDF — in any repository of their choosing (institutional repository, preprint server, personal website, etc.) at any time, without embargo. We actively encourage preprint posting prior to or concurrent with submission.
Practical Science Press is committed to the long-term accessibility of published content. We are working toward formal digital preservation arrangements and will update this page when archiving provisions are in place. In the interim, all published articles remain hosted on our journals' websites without restriction.
DOI registration is planned to commence within each journal's first year of publication. Articles published prior to DOI registration will be assigned DOIs retrospectively once registration is in place.
For questions regarding open access policy, licence terms, or funder compliance, please contact weopenaccess@gmail.com.