Libertas Academica (LA) is an open access academic journal publisher specializing in the biological sciences and clinical medicine.
[1] Libertas Academica is a publisher of open access ("OA") scientific, technical and medical journals.
In 2013, a sham study reporting that a compound isolated from lichen can kill cancer cells was submitted to one of the journals published by Libertas for peer review.
LA is also a gold OA publisher because all articles are freely available online immediately upon publication.
This means that: Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these.All journals fully indexed by DOAJ have been awarded the SPARC Europe Seal owing to the use of this copyright policy.