All articles published by ANSER are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. This means:

• Everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in ANSER journals;
• Everyone is free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.
• 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.

Permissions

No special permission is required to reuse all or part of article published by ANSER, including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. Reuse of an article does not imply endorsement by the authors or ANSER.

External Open Access Resources

Those who are new to the concept of open access might find the following websites informative:

• Wikipedia article on Open Access
• Open Access Network

Advantages of Open Access for Authors

The High Availability and Visibility of our open access articles is guaranteed through the free and unlimited accessibility of the publication over the Internet. Everyone can freely access and download the full text of all articles published with ANSER: readers of open access journals, i.e., mostly other researchers, do not need to pay any subscription or pay-per-view charges to read articles published by ANSER. Open access publications are also more likely to be included in search engines and indexing databases.

The Higher Citation Impact of open access articles results from their high publicity and availability. Open access publications are demonstrably more frequently cited.

Faster Publication in ANSER's open access journals is achieved by online-only availability. Accepted articles are typically published online more rapidly in ANSER journals than those of traditional, subscription-based and printed journals are.