EPAA Open Access Policy

EPAA/AAPE is available online at no cost to authors and readers. Authors retain copyright without restrictions, and readers are free to copy, display, distribute, and adapt an article, as long as the work is attributed to the author(s) and EPAA/AAPE, the changes are identified, and the same license applies to the derivative work. Read more about our Creative Commons license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Works before October 2019 will display a different license (CC-BY-NC-SA; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/)

EPAA/AAPE was awarded the DOAJ Seal (now retired), a mark of certification for open access journals, awarded by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) to journals that achieve a high level of openness and adhere to Best Practice and high publishing standards.

EPAA/AAPE  is a former member of the Free Journal Network (FJN), which promoted scholarly journals run according to the Fair Open Access model (that is, journals that are controlled by the scholarly community, and have no financial barriers to readers and authors).

EPAA/AAPE is also a signatory of the Budapest Open Access Initative. and the San Franscisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).