Open Access Model
Intelligence, Informatics and Infrastructure is an open access journal. Every article is made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, with no embargo period and without requiring readers to register or pay. Newly published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Articles published before the journal's adoption of CC BY remain free to read; the licence or terms applicable to each article are indicated on the article itself.
Article Processing Charge (APC)
A single Article Processing Charge of JPY 27,500 (including tax) applies to each accepted article and is invoiced after acceptance. The APC supports professional editorial handling, DOI registration, long-term archiving, and open dissemination.
No other charges
- ✓ No submission fee
- ✓ No page charges
- ✓ No colour charges
- ✓ No charge to read or download
Waivers and discounts: requests may be directed to the editorial office at aisymposium@jsce.or.jp.
Copyright & Licensing
Upon acceptance, authors sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement assigning copyright to the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), the publisher of the journal. Notwithstanding this transfer, newly published articles are distributed under the CC BY 4.0 license, so that authors and readers may freely share and adapt the work with proper attribution.
Under CC BY 4.0, anyone may copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercially, provided appropriate credit is given to the original authors and source, a link to the license is provided, and any changes are indicated. No separate permission is required for such reuse.
Author rights (self-archiving / Green OA): authors retain the right to deposit the published version of their article in institutional or subject repositories and to post it on personal or institutional webpages, with no embargo, provided the original publication in the journal is cited and linked.
Standards & Interoperability
- ▪ Machine-readable license information is embedded in each article's metadata.
- ▪ Reference lists are openly available in line with the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC).
- ▪ Articles are assigned DOIs (prefix 10.11532) and delivered in full-text JATS XML / HTML and PDF.
- ▪ Content is archived on J-STAGE and the National Diet Library of Japan for long-term preservation.