Open Access Statement
Open Access Statement
The Nigerian Journal of Physics (NJP) is committed to making physics and related scientific research freely and permanently accessible to the global research community and the general public. NJP is a fully open access journal: all peer-reviewed articles are available on the internet immediately upon publication, at no cost and with no subscription or registration requirement.
What Is Open Access?
Open access means that published research articles are:
- Freely available online to all users worldwide, without any paywall
- Immediately accessible upon publication, with no embargo period
- Freely usable by readers for any lawful purpose, including commercial applications
- Citable with full bibliographic information and persistent digital identifiers (DOI)
- Preserved through the journal's long-term archiving arrangements
How Open Access Is Funded
Open access at NJP is sustained through article processing charges (APCs) paid by authors or their institutions upon acceptance of a manuscript. Readers and libraries are never charged for access to published content.
Creative Commons Licensing
All articles published in NJP are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
This licence permits users to:
- Copy and redistribute the article in any medium or format
- Share the material with others
- Adapt, transform, and build upon the material to produce derivative works
- Use the material for any lawful purpose, including commercial applications
The sole condition is: proper citation of the original publication. Users must attribute the work to the original author(s) and NJP, provide a link to the licence, and indicate whether any changes were made.
For full details of this licence, visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Open Access Principles
NJP aligns with the principles of open access as expressed in the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
