Open Access Statement

Tekinfo Transactions on Computer Engineering and Security (InfoCES) is a fully open-access journal. Every article published in InfoCES is made freely, permanently, and unconditionally available online to any reader in any country, immediately upon publication and without requiring registration, subscription, or payment of any kind. InfoCES is founded on the conviction that open access to peer-reviewed research in computer engineering and information security is not merely a publishing preference but a practical necessity — the security of computing systems that society depends upon is strengthened when researchers, engineers, practitioners, and policymakers worldwide can access, evaluate, and build upon the latest findings without barrier. This commitment is absolute, unconditional, and applies to every article, in every issue, for the lifetime of the journal.

Our Open Access Model

InfoCES operates under the Diamond Open Access model — a form of open access in which neither authors nor readers bear any publication costs. There are no Article Processing Charges (APC), no submission fees, no page charges, and no charges of any kind at any stage of the publication process. Publication costs are met entirely by the Department of Information Technology, Politeknik Negeri Padang, as part of its institutional commitment to advancing scientific communication in computer engineering and information security. Diamond Open Access is the most equitable form of scholarly publishing because it ensures that the ability to publish and to access research is determined by the quality of the work alone, not by the financial resources of the authors or their institutions. This is of particular importance in security research, where timely and unrestricted access to findings can directly affect the ability of the community to respond to emerging threats.

Licence and Reuse Rights

All articles published in InfoCES are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This license grants anyone the freedom to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and build upon the full text of any published article for any purpose, including commercial use, provided that the original authors are properly attributed and that any derivative work is distributed under the same license. The ShareAlike condition — the copyleft mechanism — ensures that the openness of the original work is preserved through all successive derivative uses, including adapted security tools, extended experimental frameworks, translated versions, and derivative research datasets. Copyright remains with the authors. InfoCES does not claim copyright over any article published within its pages.

Immediate and Permanent Access

No embargo
InfoCES does not impose any embargo period on its published content. Every article becomes openly accessible at the exact moment of its online publication. There is no delayed access arrangement, no tiered access system, and no period during which access to any part of the journal's content is restricted. In the context of security research, where delayed access can impede the community's ability to evaluate and respond to published findings, this commitment to immediate access is especially significant.

Permanent archiving
To ensure the long-term preservation and continued accessibility of all published content, InfoCES participates in the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) digital preservation programmes. These distributed archiving systems maintain multiple independent copies of the journal's content across a global network of participating libraries, ensuring that published articles remain accessible even in the event of technical failure or discontinuation of the journal's primary platform. Every published article is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) that provides a permanent, stable hyperlink resolving to the article regardless of changes to the journal's URL or hosting infrastructure.

Machine-readable access
InfoCES supports programmatic and machine-readable access to its published content through standard metadata protocols. The journal's metadata is made available for harvesting via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), enabling indexing by academic search engines, discovery platforms, and research databases. This ensures that articles published in InfoCES are discoverable through the widest possible range of scholarly platforms and remain accessible to both human readers and automated research tools.

Author Self-Archiving Policy

In keeping with its open-access principles, InfoCES actively encourages authors to self-archive their work at all stages of the publication lifecycle. Authors are permitted to deposit preprint versions of their manuscripts on recognised preprint servers — including arXiv, TechRxiv, IACR ePrint (for cryptography and security research), and institutional repositories — before or during the review process. Following acceptance and publication, authors are encouraged to deposit the accepted manuscript or the final published version of record in their institutional or disciplinary repository without restriction. For security research, authors should ensure that responsible disclosure obligations are not compromised by preprint posting, particularly where vulnerability details, proof-of-concept demonstrations, or exploit techniques are included. All deposited versions must cite InfoCES as the original publication venue and include a link to the published article via its DOI.

Open Access and the Security Research Community

The computer engineering and information security research community has a long tradition of openness — from open-source security tools and publicly disclosed vulnerability databases to freely distributed cryptographic standards and protocol specifications. InfoCES is founded in this tradition. The journal recognises that security improvements depend on the widest possible scrutiny of proposed defences, that the exposure of vulnerabilities benefits from open peer evaluation, and that the concentration of security knowledge behind access barriers ultimately weakens the collective security posture of the computing ecosystem. By publishing under Diamond Open Access with no fees for authors or readers, InfoCES ensures that its research is available to security practitioners, incident responders, system architects, policymakers, and students worldwide, regardless of institutional affiliation or financial resources.

Commitment to Research Equity

InfoCES recognises that access to knowledge is not uniformly distributed across the global research community. Researchers at institutions with limited library budgets, scholars in low- and middle-income countries, independent security researchers, and practitioners in industry and government often face significant barriers to accessing subscription-based literature. By publishing under a Diamond Open Access model with no fees for authors or readers, InfoCES actively works to reduce these inequities. The journal is particularly committed to providing a rigorous and accessible publication venue for researchers in the Indonesian polytechnic sector, the broader Southeast Asian academic and security community, and the wider community of researchers working on the engineering and security challenges of developing digital economies.

Indexing and Discoverability

InfoCES is committed to maximising the discoverability of its published content through indexing in major academic databases and directories. The journal is actively pursuing registration and indexing with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Sinta (Science and Technology Index, Indonesia), Google Scholar, Dimensions, and other relevant indexing platforms. For security-specific discoverability, the journal also targets indexing in resources used by the security research community. Open access to content is a necessary but not sufficient condition for impact; discoverability and indexing ensure that published findings reach the researchers, engineers, and practitioners who can act upon them most effectively.

Relationship to Open Science

InfoCES's open-access policy is grounded in a broader commitment to the principles of open science and reproducible research. The journal encourages authors to make their datasets, evaluation tools, experimental configurations, and implementations openly available wherever feasible and consistent with responsible disclosure obligations. Authors are encouraged to deposit research data and artefacts in appropriate repositories — such as GitHub, Zenodo, or IEEE DataPort — and to reference these deposits in their published articles. For security research, open science practices must be balanced against responsible disclosure requirements; authors should make security-relevant artefacts available in coordination with affected vendors and following established disclosure timelines. Open peer review, while not currently mandatory, is under consideration as a future option for authors who wish to make their review correspondence publicly available. The journal regards open access, open data, open methods, and responsible disclosure as complementary pillars of a trustworthy, verifiable, and collectively beneficial security research culture.

Open Access model: Diamond Open Access — no APC, no reader fees
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Copyright: Retained by authors
Embargo: None — immediate open access upon publication
Archiving: LOCKSS and CLOCKSS
Metadata harvesting: OAI-PMH compliant
Preprint servers: arXiv, TechRxiv, IACR ePrint, institutional repositories
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/