Open Access Policy

The SLOAP is fully open access. There are no fees to individual authors, and authors are allowed to self-archive their work. The cost of publishing the journal is subsidized by the SLOAP company. Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of the journal, requires credit to the Journal as the copyright holder.

Open Access License at SLOAP

This is the most restrictive of the Creative Commons licenses that SLOAP offers. This license allows users to download and share the article for non-commercial purposes, so long as the article is reproduced in the whole without changes, and the original authorship is acknowledged.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Creative Commons licenses state that the author’s moral rights are in no way affected by the license terms. For more information about Creative Commons licences click here to be redirected to the Creative Commons website.

All journals of SLOAP operate under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 that allows for the reproduction of articles, free of charge, for non-commercial use only and with the appropriate citation information. The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission, provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:

• Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial; and
• Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author(s)’s place of employment.

A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by Universidad Tecnica de Manabi to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving.