OPEN ACCESS AND COPYRIGHT

Sapiens Sciences (ISSN: 3072-7936) is an international open-access scientific journal committed to the free dissemination of scientific knowledge and equitable access to research outputs.

The journal operates under a full Open Access publishing model, ensuring that all published content is immediately, permanently, and freely available to readers, researchers, professionals, academic institutions, governmental organizations, and the general public without financial, legal, or technical barriers.

No subscription, registration, or payment is required to access, read, download, or use any content published by the journal.

1. Publication License

All articles published in Sapiens Sciences are distributed under the following license:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This license facilitates the widest possible dissemination, visibility, accessibility, and reuse of scientific knowledge while ensuring proper attribution to the original authors and source of publication.

The full license terms are available at:

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

2. User Rights

Under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license, users are free to:

  • Read and access all published content.
  • Download articles in any available format.
  • Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Share content for academic, scientific, educational, professional, or commercial purposes.
  • Adapt, remix, transform, translate, and build upon the published material.
  • Integrate content into repositories, academic platforms, databases, and scientific information systems.

These freedoms may not be revoked provided that the terms of the license are respected.

3. Conditions of Reuse

Any reuse of published content must comply with the following conditions:

Attribution

Users must provide appropriate credit to both the authors and the journal by:

  • Properly citing the original publication.
  • Including the complete bibliographic reference.
  • Incorporating the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), when available.
  • Indicating that the work is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Clearly identifying any modifications made to the original material.

Attribution must be provided in a reasonable manner and must not suggest that the authors or the journal endorse the user or the manner in which the material is reused.

No Additional Restrictions

Users may not apply legal, contractual, or technological measures that restrict others from exercising the rights granted by the CC BY 4.0 license.

4. Copyright

Authors retain full copyright ownership of their work before, during, and after publication.

Upon acceptance of a manuscript, authors grant Sapiens Sciences a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide license to:

  • Edit the accepted manuscript.
  • Publish the work for the first time.
  • Reproduce, distribute, and publicly communicate the content.
  • Preserve the publication in digital environments.
  • Include articles in indexing services, repositories, databases, and scientific dissemination systems.
  • Disseminate the content through print, electronic, and future scholarly communication technologies.

This authorization applies to all materials associated with the publication, including texts, tables, figures, charts, images, supplementary files, and datasets where applicable.

5. Self-Archiving and Repository Deposit

Sapiens Sciences actively promotes the dissemination and long-term preservation of scientific knowledge.

Authors may deposit and share their work in:

  • Institutional repositories.
  • Subject-specific repositories.
  • National and international repositories.
  • Academic platforms.
  • Scientific social networks.
  • Personal websites.
  • Institutional portals.

The journal permits the deposit of:

  • Preprint versions.
  • Accepted manuscripts (postprints).
  • Final published versions of record.

In all cases, the complete citation of the original publication and the assigned DOI, when available, must be included.

6. Persistent Identification and Citation

All articles published in Sapiens Sciences receive a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), ensuring permanent identification, discoverability, accessibility, and citation within the international scholarly communication ecosystem.

Authors are encouraged to use the official DOI in all dissemination, citation, repository deposit, and reuse activities.

7. Open Science and Responsible Reuse

In accordance with the principles of Open Science, Sapiens Sciences promotes:

  • Free dissemination of scientific knowledge.
  • Transparency in research processes.
  • Scientific reproducibility.
  • Responsible reuse of published information.
  • Sharing of research data, protocols, instruments, software, and supplementary materials whenever ethically and legally feasible.

The journal encourages authors to make research outputs available whenever possible in order to enhance transparency, verification, reproducibility, and scholarly reuse.

8. No Submission or Publication Charges

Sapiens Sciences does not charge any fees for:

  • Manuscript submission.
  • Editorial evaluation.
  • Peer review.
  • Editorial processing.
  • Article publication.
  • Access, reading, or downloading of published content.

The journal operates under a diamond open-access model, providing free publication for authors and free access for readers.

Final Statement

Publication in Sapiens Sciences implies acceptance of this Open Access and Copyright Policy.

The journal reaffirms its commitment to the democratization of scientific knowledge, the protection of intellectual authorship, open science principles, editorial transparency, and the global dissemination of high-quality research, ensuring free, permanent, and universal access to scientific information.