Publishing options
All articles published by Management System Engineering are made freely and permanently accessible
online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers.
Benefits of open access
Publishing open access offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your
work:
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Cited more
1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects
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Downloaded more
4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles
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Greater impact
2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy
mentions
Open access also enables compliance with many major funder policies internationally. Find out
more about benefits of open
access.
Publication fees
For information about any relevant fees for publishing in Management System Engineering, please check the
journal homepage or contact the Open Research Support team (ORSupport@springernature.com).
Visit our open access support
portal for further information.
Creative Commons licences
Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These
provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative
Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles.
Management System Engineering articles are published open access under a CC BY licence (Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International licence). The CC BY licence is the most open licence available and
considered the industry ‘gold standard’ for open access; it is also preferred by many funders. This
licence allows readers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to alter,
transform, or build upon the material, including for commercial use, providing the original author
is credited.
In instances where authors are not allowed to retain copyright to their own article (where the author is
a US Government employee for example), authors should contact the Open Research Support team (ORSupport@springernature.com) before submitting
their article so we can advise as to whether their non-standard copyright request can be accommodated.
Authors are advised to check their funder’s requirements before selecting open access, to ensure
compliance. Learn more about funder
compliance.