Asia Business and Service Innovation (ABSI) has refined the way our Open Access policy is presented across the journal's website, in response to feedback and to align with international Open Access reporting standards.
A formal Open Access statement has been added to the Publication Ethics page, declaring that the journal makes all articles freely available worldwide, immediately upon publication, without any subscription, registration, or author fees. The journal remains a Diamond Open Access publication: there are no submission fees, no article processing charges (APCs), and no other charges to authors or readers.
The copyright policy has also been clarified. Upon acceptance, copyright is transferred to the publisher, the Academic Society of Food and Service Management. As the copyright holder, the Society applies the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license to every published article. Under this license, the author retains the perpetual, non-exclusive right to reuse, reproduce, and self-archive the work in institutional or personal repositories. The Copyright Transfer Agreement available on the For Authors page has been updated to reflect this single, consistent model.
To make this policy visible at a glance, every page on absi.kr now displays an Open Access mark and a CC BY 4.0 indicator next to the journal's ISSN in the top bar. Individual article pages also indicate the license under the article metadata, and each issue page indicates Open Access status alongside its access information.
These changes affect presentation and policy clarity. They do not alter the rights authors and readers have always had under CC BY 4.0. Authors with manuscripts currently in review do not need to take any additional action; the updated Copyright Transfer Agreement will be requested at the standard stage of the editorial process.
Questions regarding the policy update may be directed to the editorial office at [email protected].