Open Access Policy

Global Science Today (GST) is a fully Open Access journal dedicated to the unrestricted dissemination of scientific knowledge. The journal believes that making research freely available to everyone promotes scientific collaboration, innovation, and the global exchange of ideas.

All articles published in Global Science Today are immediately and permanently available online without subscription or access fees. Readers may freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and share the published articles for lawful purposes, provided appropriate credit is given to the original authors and the journal.

Copyright

Authors retain the copyright of their published work.

By publishing in Global Science Today, authors grant the journal the right of first publication while retaining full ownership of their intellectual property.

Unless otherwise stated, articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, adaptation, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work and source are properly credited.

Author Self-Archiving

Authors are encouraged to deposit and share their published articles in:

  • Institutional repositories

  • Subject-specific repositories

  • Personal or laboratory websites

  • Academic networking platforms

  • Funding agency repositories

Authors may also distribute the published Version of Record, provided that proper acknowledgment is given to Global Science Today as the original place of publication.

Preprints

Global Science Today welcomes manuscripts that have previously been shared as preprints on recognized, non-commercial preprint servers.

Posting a manuscript as a preprint before or during submission does not constitute prior publication. Authors should disclose any existing preprint version at the time of submission and, following publication, are encouraged to update the preprint record with a link to the final published article.

Access to Published Articles

All published articles are available in full-text HTML (where applicable) and downloadable PDF format without restriction or registration, ensuring immediate and permanent public access to scientific research.

Commitment to Open Science

Global Science Today supports the principles of Open Science by promoting free access to scholarly research, encouraging responsible data sharing, increasing the visibility of scientific discoveries, and facilitating the widest possible dissemination and reuse of published work.