This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. FLR adopts the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Common License (BY-NC-ND). That is, Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors with, however, first publication rights granted to the journal. By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to use, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings.

Publication fee for non-EARLI members

Publishing in this Open Access journal will be free of charge for EARLI members, as the Board of Directors of EARLI would like to offer this exclusive advantage to its members. Authors who are not an EARLI member at the time of the submission of the manuscript will be asked to pay an Open Access Publication Fee. However, FLR does not wish to install high Open Access Publication Fees as are generally the case with Open Access Journals.

More specifically, depending on the status of the author(s) of the manuscript a small fee is charged for the publication in this Open Access Journal. That is, if one of the authors is (irrespective of role or order)…

• an EARLI member at the time of submission, no publication fee will be charged.
• not an EARLI member at the time of submission, a publication fee of 200 euro will be charged. Moreover, the authors have the choice to become a member of EARLI or to renew their membership as this will be included in the 200 euro publication fee. However, if none of the authors want to become EARLI members or do not want to renew their membership at this point in time, 200 euro will be charged as publication fee without the membership application included. In other words, the standard Open Access Publication Fee for FLR is 200 euro. The choice to become an EARLI member is facultative but included in this 200 euro fee, if wished for by any of the authors.