Open Access Policy

Spectrum of Operational Research (SOR) is a fully open-access journal. All published articles are freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or other access barriers for readers or their institutions.

No registration or payment is required to access, read, or download published articles.

Reuse of Published Content

Articles published in SOR are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) .

Under the CC BY 4.0 license, users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, share, adapt, transform, and build upon published material for any purpose, including commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made to the original material are clearly indicated.

Reuse must not imply endorsement by the original author(s), SOR, or the Publisher.

Copyright and Licensing

Authors retain copyright in their published work. Detailed provisions concerning copyright ownership, licensing, attribution, reuse, permissions, and third-party material are provided in the journal's Copyright and Licensing policy.

Open Access and Publication Charges

The journal's open-access status concerns access to and reuse of published content and is independent of any fees that may apply to the publication process.

Information concerning any applicable publication charges is provided separately in the journal's Article Processing Charge policy.