After manuscripts were accepted, author(s) have a right to request the accepted manuscripts published by L&H Scientific publishing with open access, and the author(s) have a responsibility to paying the open access publication fee. The copyright is still held by the Publisher, but the open access permission is given to the author(s) as follows. Without any request of the open access publication, the accepted manuscripts are assumed to be published traditionally. This journal offers authors two choices to publish their research.

• Open access: Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse. An open access publication fee is payable by authors or their research funder.
• Subscription: Articles are made available to subscribers through our access programs. No open access publication fee.

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• User rights

All articles published gold open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. We offer authors a choice of user licenses, which define the permitted reuse of articles. We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options, currently being defined for this journal as follows:

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY): lets others distribute and copy the article, to create extracts, abstracts, and other revised versions, adaptations or derivative works of or from an article (such as a translation), to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), to text or data mine the article, even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the author(s), do not represent the author as endorsing their adaptation of the article, and do not modify the article in such a way as to damage the author's honor or reputation.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND): for non-commercial purposes, lets others distribute and copy the article, and to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article.

• Open access publication fee

To provide open access, this journal has a publication fee which needs to be met by the authors or their research funders for each article published open access. The open access publication fee for this journal is USD 100 per page, excluding taxes.

Authors can share their research in a variety of different ways. The author(s) can also self-archive their author manuscript immediately and enable public access from their institution's repository after an embargo period. This is the version that has been accepted for publication and which typically includes author-incorporated changes suggested during submission, peer review and in editor-author communications.

An author is entitled to post the accepted manuscript in their institution's repository and make this public after an embargo period (known as self-archiving). The embargo period for this journal can be found below.

Without the L&H permission, the published journal article cannot be shared publicly, such as, on ResearchGate or Academia.edu, to ensure the sustainability of peer-reviewed research in journal publications.

Embargo period: For subscription articles, an appropriate amount of time is needed for journals to deliver value to subscribing customers before a manuscript becomes available for free to the public. This is called an embargo period and it begins from the date the article is formally published online in its final and fully citable form.

This journal has an embargo period of 24 months and the embargo period for the USA is 12 months.