Open access

The AIC Annual Review (AIC AR) is a diamond open access book series that has been continuously published since 1984. All volumes are freely accessible online: no user registration is required and the full texts can be read and downloaded without restrictions.

The series complies with the principles of the Open Archives Initiative and its metadata are fully interoperable through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

AIC AR guarantees immediate open access to all its content, with no embargo period, based on the ethical conviction that unrestricted access to research outputs fosters a wider and more effective global circulation of knowledge.

As a sustainable online diamond open access book series, AIC AR actively supports the transition toward a fully electronic open access publishing model. In this perspective, it embraces the core principles set out in the Berlin Declaration on Open Access, issued on October 22nd, 2003: Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions: The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving.