Open access

BOP guarantees immediate free access to its content according to the BOAI definition of Open Access. The rights to the content remain with the authors. Publications are released under a Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) without embargo. This also pertains to preprints and author accepted manuscripts where applicable.

BOP is a Diamond Open Access service in which authors pay no publishing fees (Author Processing Charges, APCs) and readers do not pay access or subscription fees.