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Despite IJOOES has no subscription fees, no article submitted will have any 'Article Processing Charges'. This includes peer-reviewing, editing, publishing, maintaining and archiving. Also allows immediate and permanent access to the full-text versions of the articles.

Authors are entitled to deposit their original version (pre-print) or the final version in institutional and/or centrally organized repositories and can make this publicly available immediately upon publication. IJOOES strongly encourages authors to deposit the final version instead of the pre-print. This will guarantee that the definitive version is readily available to those accessing the article from such repositories and means it is more likely to be cited correctly (if correct citation details are given).

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It is assumed that, when an author submits a paper, he or she is the legal copyright holder and no other claim to the copyright exists. Persons or publishers wishing to download a paper for whatever use (other than personal study) must contact the respective author for permission.