Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

1. Full and immediate open access

IJCIE is a fully open access journal. Every article is freely available on the journal website from the moment of publication. There is no subscription, no membership requirement, no registration requirement and no embargo period. Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link to the full text of every article at no charge.

2. Licence

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence. Copyright in the articles is held by the journal, which grants this licence to all users immediately on publication, with no embargo. The full terms, and what they permit, are set out in the Copyright and Licensing Policy.

3. Definition applied

IJCIE applies the definition of open access given in the Budapest Open Access Initiative: free availability on the public internet, permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, subject only to attribution and to the share-alike condition of the licence.

4. What it costs readers and authors

Readers pay nothing, ever. Authors pay an article processing charge only after acceptance; the amounts, and the waiver policy, are published on the Revenue Sources and APC page. There is no submission or review fee.

5. Machine access

Full text and metadata may be harvested and text-mined without a separate agreement. The journal provides an OAI-PMH endpoint at https://ijcie.com/ijcie/oai, embedded Dublin Core and Google Scholar metadata, JATS XML where available, and Atom/RSS feeds.

6. Preservation

Open access is only meaningful if the content persists. IJCIE deposits its content with LOCKSS, CLOCKSS and the PKP Preservation Network; see the Archiving and Preservation Policy.

7. Self-archiving

Authors may deposit the submitted, accepted and published versions of their article in any repository or personal website immediately, without embargo. See the Repository and Self-Archiving Policy.

8. Funder compliance

Because articles are immediately open, licensed under a recognised Creative Commons licence, carry a registered DOI, and may be deposited in any repository without embargo, publication in IJCIE is compatible with the open access requirements of most public research funders. Authors with a specific funder mandate that requires CC BY should contact info@ijcie.com before acceptance; see section 6 of the Copyright and Licensing Policy.