Open Access Policy

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IJoMS is a fully open access journal. Every article is available free of charge from the moment it is published. Readers, libraries, and institutions may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full text without asking permission and without paying a fee.

Full open access
No embargo period
CC BY 4.0
Authors retain copyright

Statement

IJoMS supports the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. In line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative, all content is made openly accessible immediately on publication, with no subscription, registration, or paywall of any kind.

What Readers May Do

  • Read and download the full text of every article, without registering.
  • Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Remix, transform, and build upon the material, including for commercial purposes.
  • Deposit the published version in an institutional or subject repository.

The only condition is proper attribution: credit the authors, cite IJoMS as the place of first publication, provide a link to the licence, and indicate whether changes were made. The full terms are set out on the Copyright & License page.

Costs

Reader access
Free. No subscription and no pay-per-view.
Submission fee
None. Submission and peer review are free of charge.
Publication fee
None. There is no article processing charge. See Publication Fees.
Effect on decisions
None. Because nothing is charged, money never enters an editorial decision.

Self-Archiving

Authors are encouraged to deposit and share their work at every stage: the submitted version (preprint), the accepted version (postprint), and the final published PDF. There is no embargo. Authors are asked to include the DOI and a citation to the IJoMS version of record.

Digital Preservation

Open access is only meaningful if the content stays available. IJoMS therefore participates in distributed archiving; the arrangements are described on the Archiving page.