Open Access Principles
Speleogenesis Network endorses the principles of an open access to the scholarly information and ideas and facilitates their wider dissemination. The content we publish is freely available online throughout the world, for you to read, download, copy, distribute, and use (with attribution) any way you wish. No permission required.
Speleogenesis Network and the online journal "Speleogenesis and Evolution of Karst Aquifers" apply the Creative Commons Attribution License to all works we publish. This broad license was developed to facilitate open access to, and free use of, original works of all types. Click here to read the full-text legal code.
Creative Commons Attribution License: Summary
You are free:
- to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
- to make derivative works
- to make commercial use of the work
Under the following conditions:
Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the author.
What is Open Access? (Wikipedia)
Open access (OA) is immediate, free and unrestricted online access to digital scholarly material, primarily peer-reviewed research articles in journals. OA was made possible by the advent of the Internet.
The first major international statement on open access was the Budapest Open Access
Initiative in February 2002. This provided a definition of open access, and has a growing list of signatories. Two further statements followed: the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing in June 2003 and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities in October 2003.
