Green Open Access Policy

GREEN OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Open Access promotes the visibility of publications. This is in the interest of both authors and publishers and is in line with the requirements of the Swiss universities and the national Open Access strategy of Swiss universities and the SNSF.

Authors have the right to republish the final version of their article (fully copyedited, typeset and formatted copy of the manuscript as published) as a PDF openly available online and free from payment on any website and/or a repository under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC 4.0 (redistribution, adaptation, only non-commercial use with attribution and proper citation).

The article may be made accessible immediately upon publication. The original publication by the publisher including complete bibliographic information (e.g. article title, journal name, volume) must be mentioned in a clearly visible place. In addition, the DOI of the published article must be used to link to the publisher's publication. The article can be downloaded from the website of the publisher for secondary publication by the author. In case of articles from authors affiliated with a Swiss Higher education institution at the time of publication the publisher PT AORSA ADIVISI KAKA guarantees the respective Swiss Higher education institution the non-exclusive right to deposit a copy of the article as defined in the terms and conditions of this policy in its institution specific Open Access repository. Articles can be downloaded from the website of the publisher for secondary publication by the library.

This policy affects articles published after 20 November 2025.