Open Science Commitment

Open Access Publishing

Making research accessible to everyone.

We believe that research funded by society should be freely available to society. OAAS Publishers provides immediate, permanent, worldwide open access under the gold standard Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.

OUR MISSION

Democratizing Scientific Discovery

Open access is a key part of Open Access Academic Scholars (OAAS) Publishers, directly supporting our mission to achieve the widest possible dissemination of high-quality, peer-reviewed academic research.

We publish trusted, world-leading research across clinical medicine, engineering, natural sciences, and social disciplines. All articles are made available online to all users immediately upon publication without subscriptions, paywalls, or digital lockouts.

Authors retain full copyright ownership of their manuscripts, ensuring that scholarly findings can be freely downloaded, shared, quoted, and translated worldwide.

100% Barrier-Free Access

Immediate public access to every full-text article, dataset, and visual presentation.

Zero Reader Paywalls or Embargoes

Authors Retain Full Copyright Ownership

Permanent CrossRef DOI Allocation

KNOWLEDGE FLOW

The Open Access Journey

How unrestricted scholarly publishing transforms raw investigation into global impact.

01. Research

Scholars conduct scientific, clinical, or technological investigations.

02. Peer Review

Double-anonymized expert review validates findings and methodology.

03. Open Access

Instant digital publication under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licensing.

04. Discovery

Global researchers, practitioners, and policy bodies access the study freely.

05. Knowledge

Accelerates follow-on discoveries, citations, and real-world societal impact.

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The internationally recognized benchmark for ethical, unhindered scholarly communication.

Share & Distribute

Copy, redistribute, download, and transmit published articles in any medium or format for non-commercial and commercial purposes.

Adapt & Build Upon

Remix, transform, and build upon the material to create meta-analyses, clinical guidelines, educational modules, or translations.

Attribution Mandate

Users must give appropriate credit to original authors, provide a link to the CC license, and indicate if changes were made.

PROVEN IMPACT

Our Open Access Publishing in Numbers

Policy & Patent Mentions

Our open access articles have the highest number of policy and patent document mentions, relative to volume of output, compared to major academic publishers.

2^nd

Lifetime Citation Rates

Our open access articles achieve the 2nd highest mean lifetime citation rate compared to other major academic publishing houses.

100%

Research Data Policy

All OAAS journals have adopted transparent research data policies, encouraging open data availability statements and repository deposition.