Supporting broad and lawful access to scholarly work through transparent licensing, responsible dissemination, and sustainable publishing models.
In accordance with widely recognized open access principles, including the Budapest Open Access Initiative, PSG understands open access as the online availability of scholarly literature without price barriers for readers while respecting copyright, licensing, and attribution requirements.
PSG supports sustainable open access publishing models intended to maintain peer review, editorial processing, production, hosting, and long-term preservation.
For Silence, PSG currently supports a Diamond Open Access model. Other journals may operate under Gold Open Access where an APC may apply after editorial acceptance.
PSG journals may publish content under selected Creative Commons licenses. The applicable license is determined by the journal policy and publication agreement.
Unless otherwise stated, authors retain copyright and grant the relevant journal and/or PSG a non-exclusive license to publish, distribute, and identify itself as publisher of the version of record.
Subject to applicable journal policy and license terms, authors may deposit relevant versions of their work in institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, or other lawful archiving systems.