Open Access Policy

The Global Sustainability Research publishes all of its content under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This means that all articles published with open access are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy, and distribute according to the applied license.

Free access and usage

The CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license permits third-party reuse of articles under the following conditions.

  • This license allows users to copy and distribute the article as long as it is not for commercial purposes and remains unchanged and unedited during distribution.
  • Users are required to give proper credit (including a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI) and provide a link to the license, with the strict condition that they refrain from implying any endorsement by the licensor for either the user or the use of the work.
  • No derivatives, including the remixing, transforming, or building upon the material, are allowed for distribution.

To find the full license details, please check at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/