Open Access Policy

The Parthenon Frontiers

The journals published under The Parthenon Frontiers follow a Gold Open Access Policy, ensuring that all published content is freely and permanently accessible to readers worldwide without any subscription or access charges. Our open access philosophy supports the global exchange of scientific knowledge, encouraging collaboration, innovation, and academic progress across all disciplines.

1. Free and Immediate Access

All articles published in The Parthenon Frontiers journals are made immediately available online to the public upon publication. Readers can read, download, copy, distribute, print, and link to the full texts of articles without any prior permission from the publisher or author, provided proper citation of the original source is maintained.

2. Licensing and Copyright

All journals under The Parthenon Frontiers operate under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

License Terms:

Users may share (copy and redistribute) the material in any medium or format.
Users may adapt (remix, transform, and build upon) the material for any purpose, even commercially.
Appropriate credit must be given to the original author(s) and source.
A link to the Creative Commons license must be included.

Full License Text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

3. Author Rights

Authors retain full copyright of their published work while granting The Parthenon Frontiers the right to publish and disseminate the article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Authors are free to:

Deposit their published article in institutional or subject repositories,
Share it on personal or academic websites,
Use the content for teaching or conference presentations, with acknowledgment to the journal.

4. Article Processing Charges (APC)

To maintain the open-access model, an Article Processing Charge (APC) is applicable only after the manuscript is accepted following the double-blind peer-review process.
This fee covers:

Editorial and peer review management
DOI registration and metadata indexing
Long-term digital archiving and website hosting
Open-access dissemination worldwide

No submission fees are charged at the time of manuscript submission.

Note: Articles are published only after the successful completion of the APC payment by the corresponding author, as mentioned in the acceptance communication.

5. Archiving and Preservation

The Parthenon Frontiers ensures long-term digital preservation of all published articles through DOI registration and secure archiving systems.
Published content remains permanently accessible via the publisher’s website and indexing partners such as Crossref, Google Scholar, and other global repositories.

6. Accessibility and Global Reach

The open-access policy of The Parthenon Frontiers aligns with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge, promoting unrestricted availability of scholarly research for the benefit of science and society.

7. Benefits of Open Access Publishing

Free global visibility and higher citation potential
Increased accessibility for researchers, practitioners, and students worldwide
Faster dissemination of innovative findings
Long-term archiving and digital preservation

8. Ethical Compliance

All open-access articles published by The Parthenon Frontiers comply with international ethical publishing standards and undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review to ensure authenticity, quality, and academic integrity.

Publisher: The Parthenon Frontiers
Email: editor@parthenonfrontiers.com
Website: www.parthenonfrontiers.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)