Open Access Policy

The publication in the journal Community Notebook. People, Education and Welfare in Society 5.0 is free of charge for authors and institutions.
Every contribution published by the journal has a descriptive record in in the website of the specific journal. We invite our authors who want to share their works on database (as MyPublicatt or ResearchGate) or social network (es. Academia.edu) to cite the publisher and publish bybliographic data, abstract and link to the descriptive record on our websites.

Green open access
Each author can freely, immediately after publication and without any embargo of time, share his manuscript, in Word, or in other formats, in the version originally delivered for publication (without using elaboration, presentation, revision, editorial layout), using the green open access policy, on websites or online archives, citing the publisher, the document’s DOI and the link to the descriptive record, and mention of the first publication in the journal.

Gold Open access
After the 12-month embargo period, the article is released on open access via the journal’s official website.
Conference proceedings or out-of-ordinary programming numbers are released in open access.

Open Choice
The Community Notebook. Notebook. People, Education and Welfare in Society 5.0 in case of special issues offers to the authors the opportunity to choose contractually to publish in open access (gold) covering the cost of printing 100 copies for a total of € 2,500.00.