Consortium Publisher – ICDTD Inc., Canada publish all articles in full Open Access. Authors are asked to cover open access charges and pay the respective Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication. Waiver of Article Processing Charge A complete or partial waiver granted if the submission/ authors 1. Covered by research, business and/ or academic institution. 2. Applied, qualified and granted waiver. 3. Submission belongs to exempted part of the world (as per World Bank ranked countries). 4. Belong to partner conference abstracts or proceedings 5. Belong to member organization/ institution. The rejected articles are free and charges are not based on the length of an article, figures or supplementary data. Discounts Policy Consortium Publisher - ICDTD Inc., Canada offers special discounts to members from cooperated institutes. The academic institutes and societies can apply and discuss with the editorial board office for a discount policy. The waiver granting is the discretion of Consortium Publisher - ICDTD Inc., Canada. However the candidate authors are encouraged to contact the editorial office any time. Currency We prefer the Canadian $ to accept payment. However, US $ also accepted with applied exchange rates. Open Access Policy Open access (OA) mean the free and unrestricted access to scientific scholarly information and makes published academic research date to freely and permanently available online. The concept of open access was firstly defined by The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). Therefore, Consortium Publisher - ICDTD Inc., Canada defines open access by the followings: 1. Article is immediately released in open access format (no embargo period), 2. Peer-reviewed articles are freely available without subscription or price barriers, and 3. Published material can be re-used without obtaining permission as long as a correct citation to the original publication is given. However, the materials including the figures, tables or text in articles may have different status. These may be needed to be inquired with the original copyright holder (original publisher or authors). Open Access Information and Policy The articles of Consortium Publisher - ICDTD Inc., Canada are under an open access license. That means all OA contents are fully open to all and free of charge. The contents and materials can be re-used if properly accredited and cited. Open access publication is supported by the authors' institutes or research funding agencies by payment of a comparatively low Article Processing Charge (APC) for accepted articles. License Consortium Publisher - ICDTD Inc., Canada journals publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution License and are using the CC BY license. Therefore, we believe that open access publishing fosters the exchange of research results amongst scientists from different disciplines, thus facilitating interdisciplinary research. Advantages of Open Access By making the published contents Open Access, we can greatly increase the availability and visibility of the research information. That leads to more citations and greater research impact. For the researcher or author, Open Access increases the audience for a publication far beyond the audience of any non-Open Access journal. As a reader, you have barrier-free access to the literature you need for your research. Access is not constrained by subscription costs or library budgets. Additionally, the Open Access journals usually provide faster publication, accepted articles are typically published online more rapidly in TSP journals than those of traditional, subscription-based and printed journals are. Data Sharing Policies The scientific researchers are free to share their data to provide other researchers the ability to expand and build upon their published claims. Authors are encouraged to share and make available any data and materials supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper. Research data can be uploaded to repositories with the access information included in the article or appended in supplementary files. Any restrictions on the availability of the published research materials or relevant information therein must be disclosed to the editors directly at the time of submission and cited in the submitted manuscript. Data Repository Guidance Authors are advised to deposit data in a recognized data repository where possible, or to generalist repositories if no suitable community resource is available. Hence, we encourage researchers to consider the Fair Data Principles when depositing data. We further advise researchers to refer to the re3data.org re3data.org and FAIRsharing.org sites for the search of a suitable repository. These websites provide a list of certified data repositories. Data Availability Statement The authors are requested to provide a data availability statement, detailing where data associated with a paper can be found and how it can be accessed, including, where applicable, hyperlinks to datasets utilized or generated therein. The data availability statement should be included in the submitted manuscript, before the ‘References’ section, clearly indicating the location and access manner of the study’s data being shared, and providing an explanation to the unavailability of the data which cannot be released. Moreover, during a peer-review, the editors may require, as a condition for publication, that the data supporting the results in the paper be peer-reviewed and archived in an appropriate public repository. In such cases, a data availability statement is required, with a list of citations for the shared data, and a link to the repository used. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of any shared data. Any errors in the data rest solely on the provider of the shared dataset(s). Peer reviewers and editors will be rigorously examining the manuscript’s data availability statement and its compliance with the journal’s data sharing policy.