Open Access Policy

An open access publication is one that satisfies the following conditions:

  • The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right to make small number of printed copies for their personal use.
  • A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving (for the biomedical sciences, PubMed Central is such a repository).
  • Open access is a property of individual works.
  • Through open access publications, scientists can avoid subscription fees and copyright and licensing restrictions to access free scholarly literature. Open access journals not only give royalty-free literature but also reduce costs for paper-copy production, physical storage, and distribution through digitalized copies.
  • The benefits of implementing open access are reaped by many end users, such as, students, researchers, clinicians, patients, policy makers, and journalists. As long as there is Internet access, people from all over the world, be it an underdeveloped country in Africa, a developing country like India, or developed countries such as the United States or United Kingdom, will have immediate access to latest research findings.
  • Thus, BOHR journals allow all users and authors to access the open access journals free of cost. The authors grant the licence to access all the content in the papers and the readers can access the same freely without any subscriptions. The papers are peer reviewed by the esteemed editorial board members of the journal. BOHR journals strive to follow the open access policy to expand the scientific knowledge throughout the world.