Open Access Policy

This journal SCOG provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

SCOG defines Open Access as the free availability of research outputs on the public internet, permitting any user to:

• Read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles;
• Crawl them for indexing, or use them for any other lawful purpose;
• Without financial, legal, or technical barriers, apart from those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

All articles are made openly available immediately upon publication, without embargo, and in a format that supports reuse and machine-readability.