By signing the Copyright Letter, authors retain certain self-archiving rights (subject to specific restrictions).

The self-archiving policy of Bentham Open Science journals includes the following key provisions:

1. Authors may deposit the first draft of a submitted article on their personal websites or their institution's repositories for personal use, internal institutional use, or for permitted scholarly posting only.
2. Authors may deposit the ACCEPTED VERSION of their peer-reviewed article on their personal websites, their institution's repository or non-commercial repositories such as PMC and arXiv. This is permitted only for personal use, internal institutional use, or scholarly posting.
3. When depositing the accepted version as mentioned in (2), authors must acknowledge the original source of publication by providing a link to the published article on the journal’s/publisher’s website. The DOI number of the article must be included using the following format:
   "The published manuscript is available at Bentham Open Science via https://openenvironmentalresearchjournal.com/openurl/content.php?genre=article&doi=insert DOI."
4. If the research is funded by the NIH, Wellcome Trust, or other approved National Open Access Mandates, authors may archive the published version of their manuscript in designated institutional repositories under the CC-BY-4.0 License. Authors should first contact the Editorial Office of the journal for guidance on depositing a copy of the manuscript in a repository. Generally, archiving of Bentham Science Publishers Open Access content must comply with the Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.
5. Articles published under the Gold Open Access category have no embargo on archiving. Authors may deposit such articles in institutional, non-commercial repositories and personal websites immediately after publication on the journal’s website. This is done under the terms of the Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.
6. For all forms of archiving, authors must acknowledge the original source of publication and provide a direct link to the published article on the journal’s/publisher’s website. The link to the original source of publication should be provided by including the DOI number of the article in the following sentence: "The published manuscript is available at Bentham Open Science via https://openenvironmentalresearchjournal.com/openurl/content.php?genre=article&doi=insert DOI."

LONG-TERM ARCHIVING OF BENTHAM OPEN CONTENT

To ensure permanent access to our publications, Bentham Open Science has partnered with Portico for the long-term preservation of all content published in its journals.