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Open Access Publication

An Open Access Publication is one that meets the following two conditions:

The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, 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 numbers 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).

As a member of Publisher International linking Association, PILA, journals of Consortium Publisher follows the Creative Commons Attribution License and Scholars Open Access publishing policies.

Creative Commons CC NC: 
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Public License
This license is the most restrictive of Creative Common six main licenses, only allowing others to download our works and share them with others as long as they credit us, but they can't change them in any way or use them commercially. By exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), we accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License ("Public License"). To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, we are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of our acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants we such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.

Note: Community standards, rather than copyright law, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now.