Open Access License

Open access (OA) marks a significant step outside of Expression Journal’s traditional publication model. For many years, this journal required authors to transfer their copyright to us at manuscript submission, thereby giving the journal the ability to:

1.      Protect the published content against various forms of misuse and abuse

2.      Safeguard the authors' interests

However, for many authors, their institutions and funding agencies today want to make their research results more readily available to all readers.

The OA publication model is supported in large part by the journal’s Open Access Publishing Agreement, which is available for immediate use. The agreement serves four important purposes:

1.      An explicit promise is made to OA authors that we will present their work with free access to all users.

2.      OA authors are assured that they are free to post the final, published version of their articles on their personal websites, their employers' sites, or their funding agency's sites.

3.      The OAPA gives us sufficient legal rights to resolve any complaints of abuse (such as infringement and plagiarism) of the authors’ content.

4.      The OAPA allows users to copy the work, as well as to translate it or to reuse it for text/data mining, as long as the usage is for non-commercial purposes.