Membership and Standards

Creative Commons
AOSIS OpenJournals applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY). Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation that promotes the creative reuse of intellectual works, whether they are owned or public domain. Authors publishing with AOSIS OpenJournals journals retain the copyright to their work. The Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) allows articles to be freely downloaded from the journal websites, and also allows articles and data to be reused and redistributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited.

OASPA
AOSIS OpenJournals is a full member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), an organisation supporting and representing the interests of open access journal publishers in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines.

LOCCKS
AOSIS OpenJournals subscribes to the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system, which ensures a secure and permanent archive for our journals. LOCKSS has permission to collect, preserve and serve all AOSIS OpenJournals journals.

COPE
AOSIS OpenJournals endorses and applies the standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which is concerned with the integrity of peer-reviewed publications in science, particularly biomedicine.

DOAJ
AOSIS OpenJournals is a member of Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which increases the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. DOAJ is a one-stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.

Open Archives Initiative
AOSIS OpenJournals fully supports the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) metadata harvesting protocol. The OAI develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in the open access and institutional repository movements.

CrossRef - DOI
AOSIS OpenJournals is a member of CrossRef, the official Digital Object Identifier (DOI) assigning agency for scholarly and professional publishers. We assign a DOI to each of our articles to serve as a permanent Internet address, to allow linking from a reference citation from one platform to another, and to enable Cited-by Linking (see below).

CrossRef - Cited-by Linking
All references of articles published by AOSIS OpenJournals are submitted to CrossRef for registering with the DOI assigned to the article. This enables Cited-by Linking (formerly Forward Linking) to discover and report to us how our articles are being cited. We incorporate that information on our online publication platform.

CrossRef - CrossCheck
AOSIS OpenJournals utilises CrossCheck powered by iThenticate to discover and prevent plagiarism.

RSS
AOSIS OpenJournals use Really Simple Syndication (RSS) on all its journals to enable the instant distribution of newly published articles and to keep readers up to date with what is published.

Google Translate
AOSIS OpenJournals uses Google translate on all our journals to offer instant and automatic translation of all our published articles into more than 50 languages.

Google Analytics
AOSIS OpenJournals uses Google Analytics to capture and distribute powerful usage statistics on all our journal websites.

Google scholar
AOSIS OpenJournals enabled Google scholar on all our journal websites. Google scholar offers searches across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

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