JOURNAL POLICIES
ARCHIVING POLICY
This journal uses PKP-PN LOCKSS as its archiving system for distributed archiving among libraries, which allows permanent journal restoration and archiving.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
All articles published by AIST are done so under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, with copyright held by the journal. It means anyone can copy, transform, or redistribute articles for any lawful purpose in any medium, provided they give appropriate credit to the original authors and AIST, linking to the license that indicates if changes were made.
By submitting to AIST, authors automatically agree to the transfer of their article’s copyright if it is accepted, and recognize that any third party will have the right to use their article to the extent provided by the CC BY license.
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
This journal provides open access to its published articles, and allows authors to deposit different versions of the paper in any institution.
PLAGIARISM POLICY
All articles submitted to the AIST are subject to plagiarism screening. In implementing journal plagiarism policy, the editorial team manually checks the citations and references and checks the whole manuscript using the Turnitin app. In the event that the similarity index is more than 20%, the manuscript will be rejected.
