Copyright & Open Access

Authors will be asked to complete a ‘Copyright Transfer Agreement’. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article.

For Open Access articles:

  • Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the society members of this journal.
  • The Open Access publication fee is payable by authors or their research funder.

Open Access Policy

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Revised Publication Charge

(Effective for articles submitted beginning January 1, 2026)

The publication charge is 1,500,000 Korean Won per article for members of the Korean Society of Animal Science and Technology (KSAST), and 2,000,000 Korean Won for non-members. First and corresponding authors are required to pay the annual membership fee.

The publication charge for a corresponding author outside Korea is 1,500 US dollars per article.


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