Open Access Policy

IJMEER is a fully open access journal. All published research is immediately and permanently free for anyone, anywhere to read.

🌐 Open Access

Free to Read. Free to Share. Free Forever.

All IJMEER articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license — immediately upon publication, with no embargo period.

Types of Open Access

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Open Access (IJMEER)

Articles published immediately as open access on the publisher's website. No embargo. Author pays APC.

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Green OA (Self-archiving)

Authors may self-archive accepted manuscripts in institutional repositories. IJMEER allows this with no embargo.

Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License

All IJMEER articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This gives readers the right to:

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Read and download articles for free
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Share and redistribute in any medium or format
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Adapt and build upon the work, even commercially
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Deposit in institutional repositories
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Must provide appropriate attribution (credit the authors and journal)

Self-Archiving Policy

IJMEER encourages authors to share their work widely. Authors may self-archive:

  • Preprints: Any version before peer review — on preprint servers (arXiv, SSRN, etc.) at any time
  • Accepted manuscript: The peer-reviewed, accepted version — in institutional repositories or personal websites immediately after acceptance, with a link back to the published article
  • Published PDF: The final published PDF may be shared freely under CC BY 4.0 with full attribution