The Forests Monitor is an open-access, web-based journal, with abstracts and articles appearing in hypertext meta-language (HTML) and full articles downloadable for free as Adobe portable document format (PDF) files. Forests Monitor fulfils the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) definition of open access. This means that users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, search them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, and users can use, reuse, and build upon the material in the journal for non-commercial purposes as long as attribution is given when appropriate or necessary. Forests Monitor offers web-based submission and review of articles.
The articles published in the Forests Monitor are publicly available on the Internet according to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY) (link).