Access, rights and preservation
What happens to your work, who may use it, and how long it lasts.
What happens to your work, who may use it, and how long it lasts.
Global Decarbonisation is fully open access. Every article is free to read and free to reuse from the day it is published.
Every article in Global Decarbonisation 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 Global Decarbonisation meets it in full.
Global Decarbonisation has published all of its content under an open licence since 2025.
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.
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.
Every article in Global Decarbonisation is published under CC BY 4.0, unmodified, and the licence is shown on the article and in the PDF.
Every research article, review and editorial published in Global Decarbonisation 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 The licence applies from the moment of publication and cannot be withdrawn.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.
The design, code and editorial pages of this website are the property of Caravel Press. That is separate from the articles, which belong to their authors and carry the licence above. Nothing in the site's own terms restricts the reuse of a published article.
Authors keep the copyright in their work, without restriction, and grant Global Decarbonisation the right of first publication.
The authors do. Authors of articles published in Global Decarbonisation 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 Global Decarbonisation the right of first publication. That right is non-exclusive. It does not limit what authors may afterwards do with their own work.
Copyright in the design, code and editorial pages of caravelpress.com is held by Caravel Press. This is stated separately because it is a separate thing, and it places no restriction of any kind on the articles.
We do not apply "all rights reserved" to any published article, and never will. It is incompatible with open access.
What happens to the archive if Caravel Press stops publishing.
Every article published in Global Decarbonisation 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.
Every article has a DOI registered with Crossref. A DOI is independent of this website: if the content moves, the DOI is repointed and every citation ever made continues to resolve. That is the first line of preservation and it is already in place for every article Global Decarbonisation has published.
If publication were to stop, the archive would remain open and free to read, the DOIs would continue to resolve, and the content would be transferred to a preservation service or another publisher able to maintain it. Nothing published would be withdrawn from public access.
Authors may deposit any version of their article in any repository, at any time, with no embargo.
Authors publishing in Global Decarbonisation 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.
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.
This policy is registered with Jisc Open policy finder, formerly Sherpa Romeo, which is where funders and institutions check what a journal permits.
These policies apply to every journal we publish. Last revised 28 August 2026.
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