Copyright Notice & Open Access Policy

Copyright Notice

When submitting a manuscript to this journal, authors accept the following terms:

• Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are encouraged to deposit the final published PDF in their institutional repository or any suitable subject repository on publication. Authors should provide a link from the deposited version to the URL of the publisher's website; in all cases, the requirement to link to the publisher’s website is designed to protect the integrity and authenticity of the scientific record, with the online published version on the publisher’s website clearly identified as the definitive version of record.

The articles published in 2018-2019 are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the Contribution is properly cited, the use is non-commercial, and no modifications or adaptions are made.

Open Access Policy

Plant and Fungal Systematics is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.