Open Access Policy and Copyright Assignment
Open Access Policy and Copyright Assignment
Open access (OA) journals are scholarly journals that are available online "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.” Open Access (OA) provides unlimited access and reuseability of research publications online for free. Therefore, the open access therefore creates the network for reaching the widest possible audience, sharing the entire papers and building upon them.
International Journal of Sustainable Development & Society (IJSDS) has signed the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and shows its “openness” clearly in a standardized form.
IJDRT provides open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research studies helps towards a better global exchange of knowledge. Each article accepted for publication will be published under a Creative Commons license and will be hosted online perpetuity.
IJSDS also supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of ''Open Access,'' which is defined as:
“It has free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.
Copyright Assignment
A signed Copyright Assignment Form must be submitted with any paper. You can download Copyright Assignment Form from this link.
Authors have to submit the "Copyright Agreement" with a signature
Copyright and Licensing
• For all articles published in International Journal of Sustainable Development & Society (IJSDS), copyright is retained by the authors. Articles are licensed under an open access Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, meaning that anyone may download and read the paper for free. In addition, the article may be reused and quoted provided that the original published version is cited.
For further details of the license CC BY 4.0, please see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• The authors retain all patent and other proprietary rights to the article, including copyright.
• In addition to the non-exclusive rights the Publisher has under the CC-BY license, this agreement also authorizes the Publisher to permit the commercial use of the content as well aspublication, republication in electronic and print format in the journal and distribution of the content.
Reproducing Published Material from other Publishers
It is absolutely essential that authors obtain permission to reproduce any published material (figures, schemes, tables or any extract of a text) which does not fall into the public domain, or for which they do not hold the copyright. Permission should be requested by the authors from the copyright holder (usually the Publisher, please refer to the imprint of the individual publications to identify the copyright holder).
Permission is required for:
Your own works published by other Publishers and for which you did not retain copyright. Substantial extracts from anyone's works or a series of works. Use of Tables, Graphs, Charts, Schemes and Artworks if they are unaltered or slightly modified. Photographs for which you do not hold copyright.
Permission is not required for:
Reconstruction of your own table with data already published elsewhere. Please notice that in this case you must cite the source of the data in the form of either "Data from..." or "Adapted from...". Reasonably short quotes are considered fair use and therefore do not require permission. Graphs, Charts, Schemes and Artworks that are completely redrawn by the authors and significantly changed beyond recognition do not require permission.
Validity of the Agreement
• If the article is not accepted for publication in International Journal of Sustainable Development & Society (IJSDS), the agreement will expire, and both the journal and the Publisher will not have any rights over the content.
