The advantages of the open-access model of scientific publishing are being increasingly recognized in the scientific community. This allows new scientific evidence to be freely accessible from the moment of publication by anyone worldwide, enhancing the impact of new research. In response, many funders, libraries, and universities have adopted new principles to accelerate the transition to open access.
As an open-access journal publisher, Polaris is the first to promote the importance of making science accessible to all. Our peer-reviewed journals, covering a variety of academic disciplines, are fully and freely available to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). That’s why Polaris, along with other open-access publishers, is a proud signatory of the position paper and is committed to contributing to the replacement of weak transitional agreements with “agreements with publishers that are already fully committed to open science and who offer full, immediate and transparent Open Access”.