Open Access Statement
Open Access Statement
The Nigerian Journal of Theoretical and Environmental Physics (NJTEP) is fully committed to making research in theoretical, experimental, and environmental physics freely and permanently accessible to the global scientific community and the general public. NJTEP is a fully open access journal: all peer-reviewed articles are available on the internet immediately upon publication, at no cost, with no subscription required, and with no registration barrier for readers.
What Does Open Access Mean?
Open access ensures that all research published in NJTEP is:
- Freely available online to every user worldwide — with no paywall or fee
- Immediately accessible upon publication, without any embargo period
- Available for any lawful use, including commercial applications, subject to proper attribution
- Permanently citable through full bibliographic information and persistent DOI identifiers
- Preserved for the long term through the journal's archiving arrangements
How Open Access Is Supported
NJTEP's open access model is funded through article processing charges (APCs) paid by authors or their institutions upon acceptance of a manuscript. Readers, libraries, and institutions are never charged for access to published content.
Creative Commons Licensing
All articles published in NJTEP are made freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Under this licence, any person is free to:
- Share: Copy, download, and redistribute the article in any medium or format
- Adapt: Transform, remix, translate, or build upon the article to produce new works
- Use for any lawful purpose, including commercial applications
The one condition is proper attribution: users must credit the original author(s) and NJTEP, provide a link to the CC BY 4.0 licence, and state whether any changes were made to the original material.
Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Alignment with Open Access Principles
NJTEP's open access commitment is consistent with the principles expressed in the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
No part of any NJTEP publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form without proper attribution under the CC BY 4.0 licence terms, and without the prior written consent of the copyright holder where required by applicable law.
