1. Open Access Commitment
Journal of Sustainability and Intelligent Business is an online, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal published by Vensel Publications. The journal provides immediate open access to its published content, supporting the dissemination of scientific knowledge and facilitating access for researchers, academics, healthcare professionals, students, pharmaceutical scientists, and other interested readers worldwide.
JPC recognizes that unrestricted access to scientific literature can support research collaboration, education, innovation, and the advancement of pharmaceutical sciences. Its open-access policy is intended to make published research accessible without requiring readers to purchase subscriptions or pay individual article-access fees.
2. Immediate Access to Published Articles
Articles published in JPC are made available online upon publication. Readers may access the published content through the journal's website without a subscription or payment for reading the article.
The journal's continuous publication model allows accepted articles to be published individually once the necessary editorial and production procedures have been completed.
Immediate online availability is intended to facilitate the timely dissemination of research findings in pharmaceutical chemistry and related disciplines.
3. Reader Access and Permitted Use
JPC makes its published articles freely accessible to readers. Readers may read, download, and print articles for personal study, educational use, and research, subject to applicable copyright law and the terms of the article's stated licence.
Any further redistribution, adaptation, translation, commercial reuse, or reproduction of published material must comply with the licence attached to the relevant article and applicable legal requirements.
The journal will identify the applicable copyright and licensing terms on published articles so that readers can determine the permissions associated with each work.
4. Copyright and Licensing
Copyright and licensing terms must be clearly stated for each published article. The applicable licence determines the rights of authors, readers, and other users to reproduce, distribute, adapt, or otherwise reuse the work.
Where a Creative Commons licence is applied, the specific licence and its version will be identified on the article's publication page and in the published document.
The journal will not imply that all articles are licensed under a particular Creative Commons licence unless that licence has been formally adopted and applied to the relevant content.
Authors should review the applicable publication agreement and licensing terms before publication. Any required permissions for third-party figures, tables, images, or other copyrighted material must be obtained before publication.
5. Author Rights
JPC will specify authors' copyright and reuse rights in its official copyright and licensing policy and the applicable publication agreement.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submissions contain original work or appropriately acknowledged and authorized third-party material.
The journal's copyright arrangements should clearly explain whether copyright is retained by authors, transferred to the publisher, or managed under another expressly stated agreement. Authors should consult the licence and publication terms applicable to their articles before depositing, sharing, adapting, or reproducing published versions.
6. Article Processing Charges and Publication Fees
The journal's open-access model and its publication-fee policy are distinct matters.
If JPC operates a no-fee publication model, its official policy should state explicitly that no Article Processing Charges (APCs), submission fees, or mandatory publication charges are payable by authors. Any exceptions or optional services must be disclosed clearly before submission.
Readers' access to published articles should not depend on payment of a subscription or individual article-access fee.
The journal will publish transparent information about any author-facing charges on its official website and ensure that financial considerations do not improperly influence editorial decisions.
7. Peer Review and Editorial Independence
Open access does not alter the journal's standards for scholarly evaluation. Manuscripts are assessed according to JPC's editorial policies, including scientific quality, originality, methodological rigor, relevance, research ethics, and compliance with the journal's aims and scope.
JPC follows a double-blind peer-review process, as described in its published journal information. Editorial decisions remain the responsibility of the journal's editorial team.
Making an article freely accessible does not constitute an endorsement of its conclusions by the journal, publisher, or reviewers.
8. Research Integrity and Publication Ethics
All articles published in JPC must comply with the journal's applicable publication ethics and research-integrity policies.
Authors are responsible for appropriate citation, accurate reporting, disclosure of relevant competing interests and funding, and compliance with ethical requirements applicable to their research.
The journal may issue corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions when necessary to maintain the integrity of the scholarly record. Such notices should remain accessible and clearly linked to the relevant published article.
9. Long-Term Availability and Archiving
JPC aims to maintain reliable online access to its published scholarly content. The journal's archiving arrangements, repository-deposit policies, and procedures for preserving access in the event of website or platform changes should be described in a separate, publicly accessible preservation policy.
Where third-party repositories or digital preservation services are used, the journal should identify those services accurately and explain the extent of its preservation arrangements.
10. Policy Transparency and Review
JPC will make its open-access policy, copyright terms, licensing conditions, author rights, and applicable publication charges available through its official website.
The policy may be reviewed periodically to reflect changes in scholarly publishing standards, copyright law, research-funder requirements, and the journal's publishing arrangements.
By maintaining transparent access and licensing policies, JPC seeks to promote responsible scholarly communication and the broad dissemination of research in pharmaceutical chemistry and related scientific disciplines.