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What is SCIRP?

Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is one of the largest Open Access journal publishers. It is currently publishing more than 200 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines. SCIRP serves the worldwide academic communities and contributes to the progress and application of science, by delivering superior scientific publications and scientific information solution provider that enable advancement in scientific research. More than 5,000 professional editorial board members support our publishing activities, and 32,000 authors already published with SCIRP.

Where and How is SCIRP Registered?
Scientific Research Publishing Inc. is a registered corporation in the federal state of Delaware, USA. It was first registered on 18.09.2007. The registration was renewed on 14.03.2012 under file number 5124220.

The registration can be confirmed online: http://corp.delaware.gov/onlinestatus.shtml.

Place of Public Relation: Scientific Research Publishing Inc., P. O. BOX 54821, Irvine CA 92619-4821, USA.

Place of Customer Service: Building 5, Headquarters Space of Optical Valley, Tangxun Lake North Street 38#, East Lake High-Tech Development Zone, Wuhan 430223, Hubei Province, China.

Directors Information: The Director of Scientific Research Publishing Inc. is Professor Kuo-Chen Chou.

As a way to cut the cost, our operation office is located in China.

What is Open Access?
All original research papers published by SCIRP are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. To be able to provide open access journals, SciRP defrays operation costs from authors and subscription charges only for its printed version. Open access publishing allows an immediate, world-wide, barrier-free, open access to the full text of research papers, which is in the best interests of the scientific community.
· High visibility for maximum global exposure with open access publishing model
· Rigorous peer review of research papers
· Prompt faster publication with less cost
· Guaranteed targeted, multidisciplinary audience
SCIRP is striving for membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), adheres to its CODE OF CONDUCT and supports the STATEMENT ON OPEN ACCESS.

How Open is SCIRP on the “Open Access Spectrum”?
SCIRP supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative and shows its “openness” clearly in the standardized form on the Open Access Spectrum.

Open Access embraces 6 core components related to: 1.) Reader Rights, 2.) Reuse Rights, 3.) Copyrights, 4.) Author Posting Rights, 5.) Automatic Posting, 6.) Machine Readability.

SCIRP tries to be as open as practically possible on all 6 Open Access components:
1.) SCIRP is fully open on Reader Rights.
2.) SCIRP fulfills OASPA Standards on Reuse Rights. Journal papers include (so far) a copyright statement “Copyright © 2013 SciRes.”. In more detail SCIRP grants readers aCreative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) marked as:  .
3.) SCIRP asks authors to grant SCIRP a nonexclusive copyright. In this way authors continue to hold copyright with no restrictions. This makes SCIRP a fully open publisher also in this component.
4.) Only the authors hold copyright for their manuscripts before peer-review (“preprints”) and after peer-review (“postprints”). For this reason authors are allowed to post their raw manuscripts on any repository or website. SCIRP does not ask authors to waive this right. Once the manuscript is accepted for publication (after peer-review) authors grant SCIRP a nonexlcusive copyright (see 3.). Based on this copyright SCIRP produces the final paper in SCIRP’s layout. This version is given to the public (and hence also back to the authors) under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA (see 2.). For this reason authors may also publish the final paper noncommercially on any repository or website if they include a complete citation for the paper. When linking to their paper, authors should make use of the link that SCIRP has established with crossref.org. It is a pointer to the full text of the final paper. The URL provides a persistent link which will never break. This link has the form http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/YourPaperNumber.
5.) Articles are made available online directly without any delay.
6.) SCIRP strives to make articles as much Machine Readable as possible with current technology.

Publication Ethics Statement
SCIRP is committed to maintaining high standards through a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies. Any infringements of professional ethical codes, such as plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, bogus claims of authorship, should be taken very seriously by the editors with zero tolerance.

SCIRP follows the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and follows the COPE Flowcharts for Resolving Cases of Suspected Misconduct.

The submitted manuscript should not have been previously published in any form and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

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