Open Access Policy

Frontiers in Business and AI is a fully open-access journal. All articles published by the journal are made freely, immediately and permanently available online upon publication.

Readers are not required to pay a subscription fee, make any other payment or create an account to access published content. The journal does not impose any embargo period.

1. Immediate Open Access

The full text of every published scholarly article is made openly available immediately upon publication.

Users may access published content:

Free of charge.
Without registering for an account.
Without institutional authentication.
Without a subscription.
Without a waiting or embargo period.
From any country or region, subject only to applicable law and unavoidable technical restrictions beyond the journal’s control.

Open access applies to individual articles and not merely to an issue-level table of contents. Each article is available through its own permanent article page and full-text file.

2. Open Access Licence

Unless otherwise stated for clearly identified third-party material, articles published in Frontiers in Business and AI are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0):

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Under the CC BY 4.0 licence, users may:

Read and download the article.
Copy and redistribute the article in any medium or format.
Print and share the article.
Link to the full text.
Store the article in a repository.
Translate the article.
Adapt, remix or transform the article.
Use the article for teaching, research or commercial purposes.
Crawl, index and text-mine the article.
Process the article or its metadata using software.
Make any other lawful use permitted by the licence.

Users must:

Give appropriate credit to the author or authors.
Identify Frontiers in Business and AI as the original journal of publication.
Provide a link to the CC BY 4.0 licence.
Indicate whether changes were made.
Avoid suggesting that the authors or publisher endorse the user or the user’s adaptation.

No separate permission from the authors or publisher is required for reuse that complies with the CC BY 4.0 licence.

3. Copyright

Authors retain copyright in their published articles.

By agreeing to publication, the authors grant Global Frontiers Press Limited:

A non-exclusive right of first publication.
The right to publish, distribute, preserve and identify the article as originally published in Frontiers in Business and AI.
The right to include article metadata in indexing, abstracting, preservation and discovery services.

The standard copyright and licensing statement for published articles is:

“© [YEAR] The Author(s). Published by Global Frontiers Press Limited. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source, a link to the licence is provided, and any changes are indicated.”

This statement should appear on the article’s full-text PDF and HTML page.

4. Author Rights

Authors retain the right to:

Use their article in future scholarly work.
Reproduce the article in a thesis or dissertation.
Use the article for teaching and presentations.
Share the article with students, colleagues and the public.
Translate or adapt the article.
Deposit the article in a repository.
Distribute the Version of Record.
Permit others to reuse the article under CC BY 4.0.
Include the article in a future collection of their work.

Authors do not need to request additional permission from the journal when exercising these rights in accordance with the applicable licence.

5. Self-Archiving

Authors may deposit all versions of their manuscript in an institutional, disciplinary or general-purpose repository without embargo.

Permitted versions include:

The submitted manuscript or preprint.
The accepted author manuscript.
The published Version of Record.

The Version of Record may be deposited immediately upon publication.

Authors are encouraged to include the complete citation, applicable licence and a link to the official article page or Digital Object Identifier.

Further information is available in the journal’s Repository Policy.

6. Text and Data Mining

Published articles and article metadata may be crawled, indexed, harvested, text-mined and data-mined in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 licence.

Users may use automated systems to:

Search published content.
Extract and analyse text or data.
Build indexes and databases.
Conduct computational research.
Process article metadata.
Develop lawful analytical or research applications.

Where practical, users should identify the original publication and maintain links to the Version of Record.

7. Third-Party Material

Some articles may include figures, images, tables, datasets, text or other material owned by third parties.

Third-party material is covered by the article’s CC BY 4.0 licence only where the material is not accompanied by a separate credit line or licensing notice.

Where a credit line identifies different copyright or licensing conditions, users must comply with those conditions. If the intended reuse is not permitted by law or by the stated licence, permission must be obtained directly from the relevant copyright holder.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish third-party material before publication.

8. Research Data and Supplementary Materials

Research data, code and supplementary materials published with an article should be made openly available whenever ethically and legally possible.

Unless a separate licence is displayed, users should not assume that third-party datasets or externally hosted materials are covered by the article’s CC BY 4.0 licence.

Any access restriction arising from privacy, informed consent, confidentiality, national security, commercial sensitivity or applicable law must be explained in the article’s Data Availability Statement.

9. Article Processing Charges

Open access to published content is not conditional on payment by readers.

Frontiers in Business and AI charges an Article Processing Charge only after a manuscript has completed peer review and has been formally accepted for publication.

Payment of an Article Processing Charge:

Does not guarantee acceptance.
Does not influence peer review.
Does not influence editorial decisions.
Is not required before editorial acceptance.
Does not restrict free reader access after publication.

The applicable amount, currency, waiver rules and payment conditions are published separately on the journal’s Article Processing Charges page.

10. Fee Waivers and Editorial Independence

Decisions concerning Article Processing Charge waivers or discounts are handled separately from editorial assessment.

Editors and reviewers evaluate manuscripts solely on scholarly merit, originality, methodological quality, ethical compliance and relevance to the journal’s aims and scope.

An author’s ability or inability to pay must not influence the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript.

11. Access to Corrections and Retractions

Corrections, retraction notices, expressions of concern and other notices affecting the scholarly record are made freely available without registration, payment or embargo.

Notices are linked to the relevant articles. Where an article is retracted, the original article will normally remain accessible and will be clearly marked as retracted to preserve the transparency of the scholarly record.

12. Machine Readable Licensing Information

The journal aims to display or embed licensing information in:

Article landing pages.
Full-text PDF files.
Full-text HTML files, where available.
Article metadata.
Repository and indexing metadata.
Digital Object Identifier registration metadata, where applicable.

The licensing information should identify the copyright holder and include a link to the applicable CC BY 4.0 licence.

13. No Reader Charges

The journal does not charge readers for:

Accessing article abstracts.
Reading full-text articles.
Downloading full-text articles.
Accessing supplementary materials hosted by the journal.
Viewing corrections or retraction notices.
Searching or browsing published content.

A charge may apply to an optional printed copy or separately requested service, but such a charge does not affect free access to the online scholarly content.

14. Permanence of Open Access

Once an article has been published as open access, the journal intends it to remain openly accessible permanently.

The journal will not later convert an openly published article into subscription-only or embargoed content.

Long-term access is supported through the journal’s archiving arrangements and the right of authors and repositories to preserve the Version of Record.

15. Open Access Definition

For the purposes of this policy, open access means that the copyright holder grants users the right, through an open licence, to access and reuse scholarly content immediately and without financial, legal or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet.

This includes the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, crawl, index, text-mine and otherwise use the full text for lawful purposes, subject to the attribution requirements of the applicable licence.

16. Contact

Questions concerning open access, copyright, licensing or permitted reuse should be directed to the Editorial Office using the official contact information published on the Frontiers in Business and AI website.

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