The Perspectives in Intelligence Journal adheres to the principles and definitions of Open Access from Budapest 2002 to the San Francisco declaration in 2012.

The journal provides open access, free content under the principle of free availability of research, aimed at the research community, the public interested in the topics covered by Perspectives in Intelligence Journal and the general public; to promote the exchange of global knowledge.

Authors do not assume any costs for the processing of articles, nor for the submission of articles (there is no cost for the editorial process of their articles). Readers have free access to articles immediately after publication.

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For authors, from submission of the article to publication, editorial production costs are not passed on, meaning without APC (Article Processing Charge). Authors retain the copyright of their articles without restrictions. For more details, see the Copyright and Self-Archiving Policy.

For readers, all the content of the journal is freely accessible, with no embargo periods, restrictions, registration, subscription or payment requirements for readers; the material is free and open to the Internet in digital format for educational, academic and scientific purposes.

The journal collaborates with the Open Citation Initiative (I4OC), which encourages Editors to openly make available references found in journals and/or books in Crossref repositories.

Perspectives in Intelligence Journal does not charge authors for the evaluation, correction, editing, publication and distribution of articles, and is committed to disseminate published works in open access indexing services and in the different repositories that use Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) interoperability protocols.