Open Access Statement

Schole implements golden open access publications. All articles published by Schole are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. This means:

Everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published by Schole;

Everyone is free 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.

Open access publication is supported by the authors' institutes or research funding agencies by payment of a comparatively low Article Processing Charge (APC) for accepted articles.

For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited.

Why Open Access?

Open access publications are immediately and easily accessible free of charge and reusable. This free and fast access to scientific findings expedites the scholarly communication process, thereby enhancing efficiency in research and innovation. This also fosters the international and interdisciplinary collaboration between and the networking of researchers.

Open access offers numerous benefits:

Efficient research & innovation;

Good findability & long-term access;

Free and fast access to scholarly information;

High availability and visibility of articles;

Higher citation impact;

Faster publication