Open Access Policy
Urania is a peer-reviewed scientific journal committed to the open dissemination of knowledge. In alignment with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021), [Journal] provides immediate, free, and unrestricted access to its published content. The journal operates in full compliance with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) criteria and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.
- Definition of Open Access
Urania defines Open Access as the unrestricted availability of research outputs on the public internet. Users are permitted to:
- Read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles.
- Crawl articles for indexing or utilize them for any other lawful purpose.
- Access content without financial, legal, or technical barriers, aside from those inherent in gaining internet access itself.
All articles are made openly available immediately upon publication without an embargo period, and are delivered in formats that support both reuse and machine-readability.
- Author Copyright
Authors publishing in Urania retain full copyright of their work. By submitting a manuscript, authors grant [Journal] a non-exclusive license to publish, distribute, and archive the article in both print and digital formats.
The official copyright notice is detailed at : Copyright Notice
