Open Research Policy
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This page sets out the policies that govern how papers are accepted, published, licensed, and maintained on Expertini Research. It is written for researchers, readers, journalists, and policymakers who need to understand exactly what this platform is and how it works.
Every paper published on Expertini Research is freely accessible to any person, anywhere in the world, without requiring registration, subscription, or payment of any kind. This is not a marketing claim — it is the operational basis on which the platform runs and will continue to run.
There are no article processing charges (APCs) for standard publication. A researcher at an institution with no funding budget has exactly the same publishing access as one at a well-resourced university. Optional paid features exist — DOI assignment, featured placement — but they do not affect the accessibility of any paper to any reader.
We will never introduce a paywall for reading research. This commitment applies to all currently published papers and all future papers. If Expertini Research were ever to cease operations, we commit to providing authors with their paper data and at least six months notice before any platform changes affecting accessibility.
Expertini Research is a genuinely multidisciplinary repository. We accept research across 19 categories and 14 output types. Our scope is broader than our origins in AI and recruitment technology — and that breadth is intentional.
Submissions that are clearly outside scope, contain obviously harmful content, or do not meet minimum content requirements are not approved. We do not publish content that is not genuine research — promotional material, commercial content dressed as research, or content designed to harm or deceive.
Authors retain full copyright over their submitted work. Publishing on Expertini Research does not transfer any ownership of the paper to us. We are granted a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, display, and make the paper accessible — nothing more.
Papers published on Expertini Research are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence by default. This licence permits anyone to share, copy, redistribute, adapt, and build upon the material for any purpose — including commercial use — provided appropriate credit is given, a link to the licence is provided, and any changes are indicated.
Authors who require a more restrictive licence (CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, All Rights Reserved) may specify this at submission. We support all standard Creative Commons licences. The chosen licence is displayed on every paper page and included in citation metadata.
| Licence | Commercial use | Adaptations | Attribution required |
|---|---|---|---|
| CC BY 4.0 (default) | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| CC BY-NC 4.0 | ❌ No | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| CC BY-ND 4.0 | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ✅ Yes |
| CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | ❌ No | ❌ No | ✅ Yes |
| All Rights Reserved | ❌ No | ❌ No | ✅ Yes |
We are not a peer-reviewed journal and do not claim to be. Our review process is a compliance check — not a scientific evaluation. Every submission is reviewed for the following before approval:
We do not evaluate the scientific merit of submissions. We do not assess whether a paper's methodology is sound, its conclusions warranted, or its data correctly analysed. That is the function of peer review, which we leave to journals. Authors bear full responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of what they submit.
Papers published on Expertini Research are intended to remain accessible indefinitely. We maintain daily backups of all paper data and full text on infrastructure hosted in Germany (Hetzner). The platform is funded by Expertini's core business — not by grants, venture capital, or subscriptions — which reduces the risk of sudden platform closure due to funding loss.
In the event of major platform changes affecting paper availability, we commit to:
Free to publish. CC BY 4.0 by default. Author copyright retained. Permanent open access.