Open Access Policy

Building & Management provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that providing open access to research helps a greater global exchange of knowledge and doesn't apply any charge to any of its authors to process or publish a paper.

All content is available free of charge to the user or his institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without prior permission from the publisher or author. This is in line with BOAI's definition of open access.

The originals of Building & Management magazine are property of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, being necessary to cite the origin of any partial or total reproduction.

  1. Authors retain the copyright of the papers and ensure B&M the right to have a Creative Commons license, AtribuciónNoComercial-SinDerivar 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), that allow others to share the article within an author recognition and non commercial use.
  2. Authors can also establish independently aditional agreements for the not exclusive distribution of the article published versión in the e-journal (as, for example, to place it in an institutional repository or to publish it in a book).

Unless otherwise indicated, all contents of the electronic edition of Building & Management are distributed under a Creative Commons license and distribution.