Open Access Policy

In accordance with major definitions of open access in scientific literature (namely the Budapest, Berlin, and Bethesda declarations), the journal defines open access by the following conditions:

peer-reviewed literature is freely available without subscription or price barriers, literature is immediately released in open access format (no embargo period), and published material can be re-used without obtaining permission as long as a correct citation to the original publication is given.

Journal of Mediterranean Cities is published under an Open Access license. All its content is available free of charge. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full text of articles, as well as to establish HTML links to them, without having to seek the consent of the author or publisher.

The right to use content without consent does not release the users from the obligation to give the credit to the journal and its content in a manner described under Licensing.

 

Article Processing Charge

Journal of Mediterranean Cities does not charge authors or any third party for publication. Both manuscript submission and processing services, and article publishing services are free of charge.

  • There are no charges for publishing materials.
  • There is no "Article Processing Charges" (APCs).
  • There is no "Article Submission Charges.”
  • There is no "membership fees.”
  • There is no " language editing fees.”
  • We are not charging authors if they had any colored photos or extra pages in their papers.
  • There are no hidden costs whatsoever.

 

Copyright

The author retains unrestricted copyrights and all publishing rights.

The Journal allows Author(s) to deposit all versions of their paper in an institutional repository and non-commercial subject-based repositories, such as PubMed Central, Europe PMC, arXiv and other repositories, or to publish it on Author's personal website and departmental website (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.).

Publisher copyright and source must be acknowledged, and a link must be made to the article's DOI.

 

Licensing

The published articles will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY). It is allowed to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and remix, transform, and build upon it for any purpose, even commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), a link to the license is provided, it is indicated if changes were made and the new work is distributed under the same license as the original.

Users are required to provide full bibliographic description of the original publication (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages), as well as its DOI code. In electronic publishing, users are also required to link the content with both the original article published in the Journal of Mediterranean Cities and the license used.

Authors can enter separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

 

Disclaimer

The views expressed in the published works do not express the views of the Editors and the Editorial Staff. The authors take legal and moral responsibility for the ideas expressed in the articles. Publisher shall have no liability in the event of issuance of any claims for damages. The Publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.