This journal is an international peer-reviewed OPEN ACCESS journal. 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.

All articles in this open access journal which are published by JICHTM have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

Being open access means:

• articles are fully peer reviewed
• wider and faster knowledge dissemination
• maximized research impact and citation advantage

The readers of this journal are free:

• to share, distribute and transmit the work
• to rewrite and adopt the work
• to make commercial use of the work