Earth and Planetary Science

Open Access Policy

Earth and Planetary Science is a Gold open access journal, which makes the final version of an article freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication.  All articles published in the Journal are distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which means all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose (non-commercial), without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Advantages of open access:

• Higher Visibility, Availability and Citations – free and unlimited accessibility of the publication over the internet without any restrictions increases citation of the article.
• Ease of search – publications are easily searchable in search engines and indexing databases.
• Rapid Publication – accepted papers are immediately published online.