Policies
Policies
Open Access Policy
Human-Machine Communication (HMC) provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
HMC does not charge any fees to authors, whether for submission or publication of manuscripts.
As an open access journal, all content in Human-Machine Communication is freely available without charge to users or institutions. Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose allowed by the license, without requesting prior permission from the publisher or the author. This policy follows the BOAI definition of open access .
All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) .
Author Rights & Licensing
- Authors retain copyright in their work.
- Authors grant HMC the right of first publication under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
- Authors may enter into additional non-exclusive agreements for non-commercial distribution of the published version, with acknowledgment of its first appearance in HMC.
- Authors may post the published PDF in institutional repositories or on personal websites, with proper citation to HMC.
Archiving & Digital Preservation
HMC content is preserved through the UCF STARS repository and additional services including LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, and the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Authors are encouraged to deposit accepted manuscripts in institutional or subject repositories, provided that a link to the version of record in HMC is included.
Indexing & Discoverability
HMC is indexed in Scopus, ProQuest, EBSCO, Google Scholar, Informit, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
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Questions about rights or licensing? Contact the Editor-in-Chief.
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