Open Acces Policy

Euclid is a fully open-access journal. All articles are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, without subscription fees, registration requirements, or embargo periods.

Readers may access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and use the full text of published articles in accordance with the applicable Creative Commons license.

Licensing

Articles published in Euclid are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Under this license, users may:

  • copy and redistribute published material in any medium or format;

  • adapt, transform, and build upon the material; and

  • use the material for any lawful purpose, including commercial purposes.

Users must comply with the following conditions:

  1. Attribution
    Appropriate credit must be given to the author or authors, the original publication in Euclid must be acknowledged, a link to the license must be provided, and any changes made to the original work must be indicated.

  2. ShareAlike
    Any adaptation or derivative work must be distributed under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

  3. No Additional Restrictions
    Users may not apply legal terms or technological measures that restrict others from exercising the rights granted by the license.

Copyright

Authors retain the copyright to their published work and grant Euclid the right of first publication.

Authors also authorize the journal to publish, distribute, preserve, index, and make the article publicly available as part of the scholarly record. Copyright transfer to the journal is not required.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that any third-party materials included in their articles are compatible with the journal’s license or have been used with appropriate permission.

Author Self-Archiving

Authors may deposit and distribute the submitted, accepted, and published versions of their articles through:

  • institutional repositories;

  • subject-based repositories;

  • personal or institutional websites;

  • academic networking platforms; and

  • other non-exclusive scholarly communication channels.

Authors are encouraged to deposit the final published version and include the complete citation and DOI or permanent link to the article on the Euclid website.

No embargo period applies to author self-archiving.

Reader Access

Readers are not required to create an account or make any payment to access published articles. Article Processing Charges, when applicable, are charged only to authors of accepted manuscripts and do not restrict public access to published content.

The payment or non-payment of publication fees does not influence editorial decisions, peer review, or the scholarly evaluation of a manuscript.

Machine Readability and Indexing

Euclid permits search engines, indexing services, repositories, libraries, and other scholarly systems to crawl, harvest, index, and link to published content, subject to the journal’s licensing terms and technical capabilities.

Metadata may be distributed to indexing and preservation services to improve the discoverability, accessibility, and long-term availability of published articles.

Third-Party Content

The CC BY-SA 4.0 license applies to the article unless otherwise indicated. Images, datasets, instruments, tables, or other third-party materials may be subject to different copyright or licensing conditions.

Users are responsible for determining whether additional permission is required to reuse third-party content that is not covered by the article’s Creative Commons license.

Commitment to Open Knowledge

Through this open-access policy, Euclid supports the unrestricted dissemination of scholarly knowledge in mathematics education, applied mathematics, and pure mathematics.

The journal believes that immediate and equitable access to research promotes wider scholarly participation, strengthens collaboration, increases the visibility of research, and contributes to the advancement of knowledge.