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Open Access policy


Geo-Technical Mechanics journal is an Open Access journal.

This allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user 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.

The full text of all content is available for free and open access without delay.

  • No embargo period
  • No requirement for users to register to read content
  • A charge for the print version of a journal is permitted.

 

Copyright and licensing

All the articles of Geo-Technical Mechanics journal are Open Access articles under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

You are free to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

 

Under the following terms:

 Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable       
 manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

   
  NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

 
  NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

 

The authors retain the copyright to the published articles and grant the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article, cite it as the publisher's original in case of reuse, and distribute it in all forms and media.

 

Metadata policy

The metadata of the Journal is freely available to everyone and can be freely used by everyone under the terms of the Creative Commons Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication license.

 

Self-archiving policy

Authors can independently deposit publisher's version (final PDF) of their paper in an institutional, thematic or general purpose repository, on their own web pages (including social media) and/or the web resource of the institution authors affiliated with, at any time after publication. In this case, they must provide full bibliographic information (authors, title of the article, title of the Journal, volume, issue, pages) of the original paper, link to the DOI of the paper, as well as the license to publish.

 

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Funding Policy

Funder Open Access Policies

Before submitting your research to a journal, check whether your funder has any requirements about how your work should be published.

In particular, your funder may specify that your article needs to be made Open Access.

This might be gold open access, which means that the final version of record of your article published in a journal or online platform is immediately available for anyone to read and reuse.

Publishing gold open access does not require the payment of an article processing charge (APC).

Alternatively author’s funder may ask author to make use of the green open access option, which author can do by depositing an earlier version of the article in a repository. Some funders and many institutions have their own repositories, which they ask authors to use.

Authors will usually be able to find full details about their funder’s open access policy on their website. Another useful source of information is ROARMAP, the Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies. This is a growing database of the open access policies of institutions and research funders.

Best practice is to acknowledge the funding source and grant number, if the grant requires it.

Authors should be ensured that relevant funding sources are disclosed for all authors.

 

An appropriate format for acknowledgement of grant funding is:

A.B.C. discloses support for the research of this work from Funder [grant number xxxx], Funder [grant number xxxx] and Funder [grant number xxxx]. D.E.F. discloses support for publication of this work from Funder [grant number xxxx],  Funder [grant number xxxx] and  Funder [grant number xxxx].

  

Funding information section of the manuscript should describe sources of funding that have supported the work, as well as the role of each funder. Authors should state how the research described in their article was funded, including grant numbers if applicable. If there is no funding involved, the following (or similar) statement should be included:

Funding information: The authors state no funding involved.

 

If required by the funding bodies, the authors may add the information describing the degree of each author contribution.