Open Access Policy

American Digits: Journal of Computing and Digital Technologies operates under a hybrid publishing model.

Standard Publication

By default, accepted articles are published under the journal's standard access model.

Under this model:

• Articles remain accessible through the journal's controlled distribution system.
• Individual PDF downloads may require payment according to the publisher's current pricing policy.

Optional Open Access

Authors may choose to publish their accepted article as Open Access by paying the applicable Open Access publication fee.

Open Access articles are:

• Freely available to all readers immediately upon publication.
• Published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license unless otherwise specified.

Reader Access

Readers may:

• Browse article metadata without charge.
• Access Open Access articles freely.
• Obtain restricted-access full-text articles according to the publisher's access and pricing policies.

Copyright

Copyright remains with the designated copyright holder as stated in each published article.

Licensing terms may vary depending on whether the article is published under the standard access model or the optional Open Access model.