Open Access Policy

APALM is an Open Access Journal. Open Access is a publishing model that provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free, without any charge access to the full text of research articles to users and/her institutions without requiring a subscription to the journal in which these articles are published and digital content is freely available online and user rights and the terms of copyright are clearly defined.

All articles published in APALM are open access allowing universal access, maximum visibility, and free dissemination of published work.

Copyright of the published articles is retained by the authors and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the works authorship and its publication. 

Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.