Open Access Policy (BOAI-Compliant) and Permission for Copyrighted Works

1- Open Access Policy (BOAI-Compliant)

2- Licensing

3- Copyright

1- Open Access Policy (BOAI-Compliant)

IJERD is a fully open access journal committed to the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). All published articles are freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, without subscription or access restrictions.

Readers are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of IJERD articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without requesting prior permission from the publisher or the author, provided proper attribution of authorship and the original source are cited.

2- Licensing

To support this open access model, IJERD applies the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), which allows others to share and adapt the work for any purpose, even commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given to the original authors.

IJERD is committed to ensuring the legal publishing rights for authors and the IJERD journal.

Authors must obtain and provide permission for any copyrighted works used in their submissions.

3- Copyright

Permission for Copyrighted Works

  • Authors retain copyright to their work upon publication in IJERD while granting the journal the right of first publication.
  • The published work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), permitting others to share and adapt the work with proper attribution to the original authors and acknowledgment of its initial publication in IJERD.
  • The CC BY 4.0 license applies retroactively to all volumes and issues published since 2010, ensuring consistent access and use rights across the full publication history of IJERD.
  • Authors may enter into additional, non-exclusive agreements for distribution of their work (e.g., posting in institutional repositories or republishing in books) with acknowledgment of initial publication in IJERD.
  • For reproducing third-party copyrighted materials within submitted works, authors must obtain permission from the original copyright holders and provide evidence of such permissions during submission.
  • IJERD and ISERD reserve all rights to publish, modify, withdraw papers, and enforce ethical compliance with no refunds if conditions, like plagiarism or violation of copyright policies, are breached.