Access, rights and preservation

What happens to your work, who may use it, and how long it lasts.

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Open access

Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities is fully open access. Every article is free to read and free to reuse from the day it is published.

The statement

Every article in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities is published Gold Open Access: open access immediately, in the journal itself, with no version of it held behind anything. The copyright holder of every article grants usage rights to others under an open licence, which permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text, crawl it for indexing, pass it to software as data, or use it for any other lawful purpose.

This is the definition of open access used by DOAJ, and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities meets it in full.

There is no embargo. The full text is available on the day of publication.
There is no registration, login or account of any kind required to read.
There is no subscription, and no part of the journal sits behind one.
There is no subscription-only content in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities, so it is not a hybrid.

Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities has published all of its content under an open licence since 2026.

Third-party material

Where an article reproduces material the authors do not own, that material is used with permission or under fair dealing, is clearly identified, and its copyright holder and licence are stated in the caption. Everything else in the article is covered by the article's own licence.

Why

Research that cannot be read cannot be used. We take the position set out in the Budapest Open Access Initiative: the public good served by removing access barriers is greater than the revenue that barriers protect.

Licensing

Every article in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities is published under CC BY 4.0, unmodified, and the licence is shown on the article and in the PDF.

The licence

Every research article, review and editorial published in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The licence applies from the moment of publication and cannot be withdrawn.

Under CC BY 4.0 anyone may share and adapt the work for any purpose, including commercially, provided they give appropriate credit, link to the licence, and indicate whether changes were made.

We do not add to, remove from or otherwise adapt the terms of the licence. The licence that applies is the one at the CC BY 4.0 legal code, in full and unaltered.

Where the licence appears

On the article page, named and linked to the licence deed.
In the PDF, on the first page.
In the article's metadata, deposited with and carried into every index that harvests it.

Authors keep the copyright in their work, without restriction, and grant Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities the right of first publication.

Who owns the work

The authors do. Authors of articles published in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities retain full copyright and all publishing rights in their work, without restriction, and without any transfer or exclusive licence to the journal or to Caravel Press.

By submitting, authors grant Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities the right of first publication. That right is non-exclusive. It does not limit what authors may afterwards do with their own work.

Authors may republish their article elsewhere.
Authors may deposit any version of it in any repository, at any time. See the repository policy.
Authors may reuse their own figures, tables and text in later work.
Authors are not required to seek permission from the journal for any of the above.

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Archiving and preservation

What happens to the archive if Caravel Press stops publishing.

Where the content is kept

Every article published in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities has a DOI registered with Crossref. The full text, its metadata and its JATS XML are held by Caravel Press and backed up off site.

Caravel Press deposits into every long-term preservation service open to it. Each one is named here once deposits into it have begun.

Preservation services: To be listed as deposits begin.

What is preserved

The version of record of every article, as published, in PDF and in JATS XML.
The full bibliographic metadata, including the DOI, the licence, the ORCID identifiers of the authors and the complete reference list.
Every figure, table and supplementary file.
Every correction, expression of concern and retraction notice.

Repository and self-archiving

Authors may deposit any version of their article in any repository, at any time, with no embargo.

The policy

Authors publishing in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Cities may deposit their work in an institutional repository, a subject repository, a preprint server, a funder repository, a personal or departmental website, or a scholarly network.

Submitted version (preprint): May be deposited at any time. No embargo.
Accepted manuscript: May be deposited at any time. No embargo.
Version of record (published): May be deposited at any time. No embargo.

There is no embargo on any version, because there is nothing for an embargo to protect: the published version is already open access under CC BY 4.0.

We ask only that a deposited version cites the published article and gives its DOI, so that a reader who finds the copy can reach the version of record.

Where this is recorded

This policy is registered with Jisc Open policy finder, formerly Sherpa Romeo, which is where funders and institutions check what a journal permits.