Open Access Policy

All JCF research articles are fully open access.

All research articles published in JCF are fully open access. All content is freely available without any charge to the user. 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, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

An Open Access Publication grants all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship.

A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that supports open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving.