§ Any written agreement (including email letter) is considered as legal base for inclusion of a journal short profile to APPlatforms.

§ Limited selection of open access volumes or articles of the accepted journal can be added by the APPlatforms to its database using info in the original websites and web pages

§ The APPlatforms keeps right to include or exclude a periodical to/from its database

§ APPlatforms may or may not provide commentary on its decisions concerning not accepting or exclusion policies and decisions

§ Usually, neither the staff nor the APPlatforms members are in a position to provide guidance about the steps an editor or publisher should take to ensure that a specific title will be indexed in the database.

§ The APPlatforms abstract and index mainly profiles of a journals and does not have explicit obligations and/or commitments to abstract and index articles

§ A&I profile of the periodical accepted and agreed to inclusion should have direct association (close repetition or mirroring) to the original info from print and/or web sources

§ Evaluation of a submitted periodical can take time which can vary from 2 weeks to 2 years or more. Quality, originality, and importance of the scientific content are primary considerations

§ If the submitted periodical is appropriate for APPlatforms, the periodical is scheduled for inclusion to database at the earliest possible date. Requesters are not necessarily informed on final decisions, and it is the responsibility of applicants (editors or /and publishers) to keep a track on APPlatforms website.

§ APPlatforms does not bear any third party obligations to authors published in the included journals

§ Title abbreviations for designing a periodical profile can be made by APPltaforms on its own