OPEN ACCESS POLICY

STORAGE: Jurnal Ilmiah Teknik dan Ilmu Komputer provides immediate open access to everything that it publishes. The journal follows the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative: scholarly literature in architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science should be freely available to everyone on the internet.

Policy at a Glance

Item	Policy of STORAGE
Access model	Immediate open access to the full text of every article
Fees for readers and institutions	None
Registration to read	Not required
Embargo	None
Copyright	Retained by the authors
License	CC BY 4.0
Commercial reuse	Permitted, with attribution
Adaptation and translation	Permitted, with attribution
Self archiving by authors	Permitted, with an acknowledgment of the first publication in STORAGE
Fees for authors	No submission fee. The publication charge is listed on the Author Fees page.

1Immediate and Free Access

Feature	Description
No subscription	A subscription is not needed to read the full text.
No registration	Readers do not need to register or to log in.
No paywall	There is no paywall and no access fee.
No embargo	The full text is public as soon as an article is published.

Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full text without prior permission, subject to the license. All published articles are available in the journal archive.

2Open License

Articles are published under the CC BY 4.0 license, except for third party material that is clearly marked. The license allows sharing, adaptation (including remixing and translation), and commercial reuse.

Conditions of reuse. Users must give credit to the authors, acknowledge the original source, provide a link to the license, and indicate the changes that were made.

The full terms and a sample credit line are on the Licensing page.

3Copyright and Author Rights

Topic	Policy
Copyright	The copyright stays with the authors.
First publication	The authors grant STORAGE the right of first publication, and the work is licensed under CC BY 4.0 at the same time.
Reuse by the authors	Authors may reuse their work, and they may make separate nonexclusive arrangements for its distribution, as long as they acknowledge the first publication in STORAGE.

Further details are on the Copyright Notice page.

4Reader and Reuse Rights

The following uses are allowed under CC BY 4.0 without a separate permission.

Use	Example
Read and download	Reading an article online, or saving a copy of the file.
Copy, print, and share	Printing an article, or sharing it as a handout for a class.
Link	Linking to an article from a course page, a reading list, or a website.
Translate and adapt	Translating or adapting an article, with a statement that the original article is the authoritative version.
Teaching and research	Lectures, laboratory courses, literature reviews, theses, and final projects.
Crawl and index	Search engines, library systems, and citation databases.
Text and data mining	Computational analysis of the text and of the metadata of the articles.
Commercial and noncommercial reuse	Reuse for any purpose, including paid training, with the required credit.

Open access does not mean that reuse is unconditional. Attribution, a link to the license, and a statement of the changes are required, as explained on the Licensing page.

5Open Access and Fees for Authors

Open access means that readers do not pay. The journal still has costs. There is no submission fee. A publication charge applies, and other charges are possible. The amounts are on the Author Fees page, which is the authoritative source.

Fees are not a reason to accept or to reject a manuscript. Decisions are based on quality and relevance, as described in the Peer Review Process and in the Publication Ethics.

6Self Archiving and Repositories

There is no embargo on self archiving. Authors may deposit the published version of their article, under CC BY 4.0, in the following places.

No.	Where
1	Institutional and university repositories
2	Subject and disciplinary repositories
3	Personal and academic websites
4	Scholarly profiles and research networks
5	Other legitimate open repositories

When authors deposit an article, they should acknowledge STORAGE as the original place of publication, give the DOI, and link to the official version on the journal website.
A copy in a repository does not replace the archive of the journal. See the Archiving Policy.

7Discovery, Indexing, and Machine Access

The content and the metadata of the articles can be searched, linked, crawled, harvested, indexed, and used for text and data mining, subject to the license. The services that index the journal are listed on the Indexing page.

8Third Party Material

Figures, photographs, maps, drawings, tables, datasets, software, source code, standards and specifications, test items, questionnaires, and quotations may carry separate rights. Material that is excluded from the CC BY 4.0 license should be identified in the credit line. Reuse of such material that is not covered by a legal exception or by an open license needs the permission of the rights holder. See the section on third party material on the Licensing page.

9Budapest Open Access Initiative

STORAGE supports the principle of the Budapest Open Access Initiative that scholarly literature should be freely accessible online.

Our commitment. STORAGE keeps its articles free to read, and it explains the rights of authors and readers clearly. The long term preservation and the continued access to the articles are described in the Archiving Policy and on the Electronic Filing page.