Open Access Policy

The MACS Publisher and Editors are always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.

All articles published in MACS are fully open access; immediately freely available to read, download and share. Articles are published in the MACS title is under the terms of a Creative Commons license 4.0 (CC-By 4) which permits users to read, print and download, redistribute or republish the article (e.g. display in a repository), translate the article, download for text and data mining purposes, reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works, sell or re-use for commercial purposes. All submitted manuscripts are checked for similarity through a trustworthy software named iThenticate to be assured about their originality and then rigorously peer-reviewed by international reviewers.