Open Access Policy

Access & Dissemination

Open Access Policy

SaNa: Journal of Blockchain, NFTs and Metaverse Technology is a fully open access journal. All published scholarly content is freely and immediately available online to readers without subscription charges, access fees, registration requirements, or embargo periods.

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Immediate Open Access

Published content is openly accessible from the time of publication.

Readers may access the full text of articles published by SaNa immediately upon publication. The journal does not apply a subscription barrier, paywall, or delayed-access period to its scholarly articles.

Access to published articles does not require readers or their institutions to make payment or register for an account.

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Use & Reuse of Published Content

Open access includes both free access and clearly defined reuse rights.

Subject to the applicable open license, users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and otherwise lawfully reuse the full text of published articles without requesting individual permission from the journal or publisher.

Appropriate attribution to the original authors and source must be maintained whenever published material is reused.

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Open License

Published articles are distributed under an open Creative Commons license.

Articles published in SaNa are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

This license permits sharing and adaptation of the published work, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given and derivative works are distributed under the same license.

Detailed information concerning copyright ownership, author rights, licensing conditions, and reuse requirements is provided separately in the journal's Copyright & Licensing Policy .

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Open Access Principle

SaNa supports the broad dissemination of scholarly knowledge.

The journal's open access approach is consistent with the general principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), which promotes free online access to scholarly literature and the ability of users to make lawful use of published research.

Rather than reproducing the complete text of the Budapest Open Access Initiative on this website, readers may consult the original initiative for its full historical statement and principles.

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Reader Access & Publication Charges

Reader access and author publication charges are separate matters.

SaNa does not charge readers or institutions for access to published articles.

Any charges that may apply to authors during the publication process are disclosed separately and transparently in the journal's Author Fees policy and do not affect readers' open access to published content.

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Discovery & Accessibility

Open scholarly content should remain accessible and discoverable.

Published articles are provided through individual article pages with accessible full-text content and bibliographic metadata. The journal supports scholarly discovery through standard publishing metadata, persistent identifiers, and indexing or discovery services where applicable.

Open access to the article itself remains independent of its inclusion in any particular indexing, abstracting, or discovery database.

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Related Policies

Detailed editorial policies are maintained separately to avoid duplication.

Copyright & Licensing

Copyright ownership, author rights, the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, attribution, and reuse conditions are described in the dedicated Copyright & Licensing Policy.

Author Fees

Information concerning any publication charges applicable to authors is provided separately in the Author Fees policy.

Publication Ethics

Research integrity, authorship, competing interests, misconduct, ethical oversight, complaints, and related editorial matters are governed by the journal's Publication Ethics policy.

Open Access Commitment

SaNa is committed to the immediate and unrestricted availability of scholarly knowledge while maintaining transparent licensing, responsible attribution, and sustainable scholarly publishing practices.