Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Istawa Open Access Information and Policy

All articles published by Istawa are made immediately available worldwide under an OPEN ACCESS license. This means:

1. Everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in Istawa;

2. Everyone is free to re-use the published material if proper accreditation/citation of the original publication is given;

3. open access publication is supported by the authors' institutes or research funding agencies by payment of a comparatively low Article Processing Charge (APC) for accepted articles.

We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0)