Open Access Policy
This is an open access journal, meaning that all content is freely accessible to the user or their institution at no cost. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles in The Injector without prior permission from the publisher or author. This complies with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.
BOAI emerged from a meeting organized by the Open Society Institute (OSI) in Budapest on 1-2 December 2001. The aim of the meeting was to accelerate the progress of the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet. The participants represented many perspectives, many academic disciplines, many countries, and had experience with many of the ongoing initiatives that make up the open access movement. In Budapest, they explored how separate initiatives could work together to achieve broader, deeper, and faster success. They explored the most effective and affordable strategies for serving the interests of research, researchers, and the institutions and communities that support research. Finally, they explored how OSI and other foundations could most productively use their resources to support the transition to open access and make open access publishing economically self-sustaining. The result was the BOAI. It is at once a statement of principle, a statement of strategy, and a statement of commitment.
When an author chooses to make their article open access, it becomes freely readable and reusable as soon as it is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY NC) license. This allows users to copy and distribute the article, but not for commercial purposes. It also does not allow distribution if the article is modified or edited in any way, and the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the official publication via the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and does not indicate that the licensor has approved the use of the work.
