OPEN ACCESS AND COPYRIGHT

Open Access Policy

The Journal of the Turkish Chemical Society Section A: Chemistry (JOTCSA) is a fully open access journal. All published articles are freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication without subscription or access fees. As a gold open access journal, only authors are expected to pay a small article processing charge of 50 USD for necessary operations.

Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of articles for non-commercial purposes in accordance with the journal's licensing terms, without requesting prior permission from either the publisher or the authors.

Copyright

Authors retain the copyright of their published work.

By submitting a manuscript to JOTCSA, authors confirm that:

• the submitted work is original;
• they hold the necessary rights to all content included in the manuscript;
• the manuscript does not infringe upon the copyright, intellectual property rights, or other legal rights of any third party.

Upon acceptance for publication, authors grant JOTCSA a non-exclusive license to publish, archive, and distribute the work.

Licensing

All articles published in JOTCSA are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License.

Under this license, users are permitted to copy and redistribute the published material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original authors and the journal, a link to the license is provided, and no modifications or derivative works are distributed.

For the full license terms, please refer to the Creative Commons website.