Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

 
 
 

Whoosh: Journal of Transportation and Logistic is a fully open access journal. All scholarly articles published by the journal are made freely and immediately available online without subscription charges, access fees, registration requirements, or embargo periods.

Immediate and Free Access

Readers may access the full text of published articles immediately upon publication. No payment or institutional subscription is required to read the journal's scholarly content.

Open access applies without delay. The journal does not impose an embargo period and does not require users to register before accessing published articles.

Reader Access and Reuse

Subject to the license applicable to the published article, users may access and use journal content for lawful purposes, including:

› Read and download articles
› Copy and distribute content
› Print published articles
› Search and link to full texts
› Crawl content for indexing
› Process content using software
Budapest Open Access Initiative

The journal supports the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), which promotes free online access to scholarly literature and broad reuse of research without unnecessary financial, legal, or technical barriers.

Consistent with these principles, the journal seeks to maximize the accessibility, discoverability, and lawful reuse of published research while preserving appropriate scholarly attribution.

Repository and Self-Archiving

Authors may deposit and share their published articles through institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal academic websites, and other appropriate scholarly platforms in accordance with the license attached to the published article.

Accessibility and Discoverability

The journal supports broad dissemination of scholarly content through open web access and machine-readable discovery mechanisms, enabling articles to be indexed, searched, linked, and accessed by researchers, practitioners, institutions, indexing services, and other users.

Copyright and Licensing

Copyright ownership and the specific terms governing reuse, attribution, redistribution, adaptation, and third-party material are stated separately in the journal's Copyright & Licensing policy and in the applicable license displayed with published articles.