Policy Hub
Public policies for otstest: access, rights, fees, peer review, ethics, integrity, data, continuity, and process.
Publication Standards and Transparency
Public standards for editorial independence, policy review, publisher roles, indexing, and the reliability of the scholarly record.
Access Policy
The journal has not yet stated its access model.
Copyright and Licensing
Authors retain copyright and grant otstest a non-exclusive right to publish, preserve, distribute, index, and identify the version of record.
Article Processing Charges and Business Model
otstest does not charge APCs, submission fees, publication fees, page charges, colour charges, or other author-facing publication fees.
Peer Review Policy
Editorial screening, review handling, confidentiality, editorial final responsibility, and appeals.
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Responsibilities for authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher, including misconduct, investigations, conflicts, research ethics, and post-publication record correction.
Plagiarism Policy
Procedures for plagiarism, overlap, duplicate publication, text recycling, translated plagiarism, citation manipulation, and legitimate prior dissemination.
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Rules for AI tool use, author responsibility, disclosure, false content, and manuscript confidentiality for reviewers and editors.
Data Policy
Expectations for data availability statements, sensitive-data limits, privacy, consent, data integrity, retention, citation, and persistent identifiers.
Preservation Policy
The journal aims to keep its published record identifiable and available; it names specific preservation services only once they are implemented and verifiable.
Repository Policy
Repository permissions have not yet been stated by this journal.
Complaints and Appeals
Evidence-based complaints and appeals process for editorial decisions, ethics concerns, conflicts, corrections, and published content.