PUBLISHING POLICY
Open Access & Publication Fees
SCIENTIA is an open access proceedings series, meaning that all articles are immediately and permanently free to read, download, copy & distribute under the terms of the applicable end-user license. The online publication of each proceedings is sponsored by the conference organizers and hence no additional publication fees are required.
Copyright & End-User License
The copyright of all articles published in this series remains with the Authors, i.e. Authors retain full ownership of their article. Permitted third-party reuse of the open access articles is defined by the applicable Creative Commons (CC) end-user license which is accepted by the Authors upon submission of their paper. All articles in SCIENTIA are published under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, meaning that end users can freely share an article (i.e. copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt it (i.e. remix, transform and build upon the material) on the condition that proper attribution is given (i.e. appropriate credit, a link to the applicable license and an indication if any changes were made; all in such a way that does not suggest that the licensor endorses the user or the use) and the material is only used for non-commercial purposes.
Peer Review
All proposals for proceedings to be published in this series are first evaluated by a Series Editor(s) and/or a scientific evaluation committee consisting of senior researchers in the relevant field. If accepted, the peer review process for the individual articles within each proceedings is under the responsibility of the conference organizers and the Guest Editors of each volume, who are committed to conducting the peer review in line with international scientific standards. The Series Editor(s) subsequently also perform(s) a final check of the scientific quality of the accepted papers before the articles are released for publication. For more information, please refer to the individual proceedings page and/or the conference website.
Code of Ethics & Malpractice Statement
AMCA Press adheres to the ethical frameworks and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), including the COPE Core Practices and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. All ethical and misconduct cases for this series are handled according to these guidelines. For proceedings in particular, AMCA Press also applies the IEEE Conference Standards for conference ethics and quality control. For detailed information on current conference ethics and quality control in proceedings publications, please read the IEEE white paper which has been endorsed by Atlantis Press. Note that the editorial team of SCIENTIA verifies the originality of submitted manuscripts using similarity detection software.
DOIs
Each article that is published in a proceedings in this series is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). DOIs are standardized digital identities which can be used to cite and link to electronic content. A DOI is guaranteed to never change, so can be used as a persistent identifier to permanently link to an electronic article no matter where it is stored.
Print Version
All SCIENTIA proceedings can be ordered in print, either as a bulk order through the conference organizers or individually. If you wish to obtain an individual print copy of any proceedings in this series, you can order this directly through our partner AMCA Press.