Open Access Policy

Management Science Advances (MSA) is a fully open-access journal. All published articles are freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or other access barriers for readers or their institutions.

No registration or payment is required to access, read, or download published articles.

Articles published in MSA are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Under the CC BY 4.0 license, published material may be shared, copied, redistributed, adapted, transformed, and built upon for any purpose, including commercial use, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made to the original material are clearly indicated.

Authors retain copyright in their published work and grant MSA the right of first publication.

Detailed provisions concerning copyright ownership, licensing, attribution, reuse, permissions, and third-party material are provided in the journal's Copyright and Licensing policy.

Authors may also deposit and share permitted versions of their manuscripts in accordance with the journal's Self-Archiving Policy.