Open Access Policy

Journal of Green Science and Technology (JGST) is a fully open-access journal. All articles published by JGST are made immediately and permanently available online without subscription fees, access charges, embargo periods, or registration requirements for readers.

JGST provides open access to its published content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports the global exchange of knowledge and increases the visibility, accessibility, and potential impact of scholarly research.

Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, and use the published content for other lawful purposes, in accordance with the applicable Creative Commons license.

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

Under this license, users are free to:

  • Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; and
  • Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial purposes.

These permissions are granted provided that users:

  1. give appropriate credit to the author(s) and acknowledge the original publication in Journal of Green Science and Technology (JGST);
  2. provide a link to the CC BY-SA 4.0 license;
  3. indicate whether changes have been made; and
  4. distribute adapted material under the same license as required by CC BY-SA 4.0.

Authors retain the copyright of their articles and grant JGST the right of first publication. JGST does not require authors to transfer copyright to the journal.

The full text of all scholarly articles is available immediately upon publication. JGST does not apply an embargo period and does not require readers to register or pay any fee to access published articles.

Any third-party material included in an article that is not covered by the article's CC BY-SA 4.0 license must be clearly identified together with its applicable copyright or licensing conditions.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/