Landscape Architecture is a diamond open access journal. All articles published in the journal are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges, registration barriers, or access fees.
The journal does not charge readers to access published content and does not charge authors article processing charges, submission fees, publication fees, or other mandatory fees. This policy supports equitable access to scholarly research and encourages the widest possible dissemination of knowledge in landscape architecture, architecture, environmental science, engineering, arts and humanities, and nature and landscape conservation.
All articles published in Landscape Architecture are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Under this license, users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, share, adapt, and reuse the published material in any medium or format, provided that proper credit is given to the original author(s), the journal, and the published source.
Authors retain copyright of their work and grant Landscape Architecture the right to publish the article as the version of record. Authors may deposit, share, and distribute their published articles in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, academic platforms, and other scholarly communication channels, provided that the original publication is properly cited.
The journal believes that open access publishing strengthens academic communication by removing financial and technical barriers to research. Through its diamond open access model, Landscape Architecture supports unrestricted access for readers and fee-free publication for authors.