PatternIQ Mining (PIQM) is a fully open access journal. All articles are freely available online immediately on publication, without subscription, registration, payment or embargo. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software and use them for any other lawful non-commercial purpose, without asking permission from the publisher or the authors, provided that the original work is properly credited. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access.
What open access means at PIQM
- Immediate. Every article is open from the day it is published. There is no embargo period.
- Free to read. No subscription, payment or registration is needed to read or download any article.
- Free to publish. The journal charges no fees to authors. See Article Processing Charges.
- Open since the first issue. The journal has been open access since its first volume in 2024, and all issues in the archive are open.
Licence and reuse
Articles are published under the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence. Anyone may share and adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, provided that the authors and the original publication in PIQM are credited, a link to the licence is given and any changes are indicated. Commercial use requires the permission of the copyright holders. Details are given under Copyright and Licensing.
Rights of authors
- Authors keep the copyright of their articles, without restrictions.
- Authors may deposit any version of their article (the submitted version, the accepted manuscript and the published version) in an institutional or subject repository, on a preprint server or on a personal website, at any time and without embargo. See the Digital Archiving and Self-Archiving Policy.
Identification of articles
Each article has its own web page with the full text available as a PDF, a persistent identifier (DOI) registered with Crossref, and a statement of its licence.