Open Access Policy

Open Acces Policy

 

The Annals of "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Fascicle XII, Welding Equipment and Technology (AWET) is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available to users without any subscription charges or access fees.  The journal’s open access policy is in line with the Declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

According to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), “open access” is defined as “free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited”.