The aim of Inter Journal Publications (IJP) and its journals are to provide the best choice of user license options which define how readers can reuse open access articles published on our platforms.
Open Access is a broad international movement that seeks to grant free and open online access to academic information, such as publications and data. A publication is defined ‘open access’ when there are no financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing it – that is to say when anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search for and search within the information, or use it in education or in any other way within the legal agreements. You can read more about it on our Open Access information page or at Open Access – What is open access?
Inter Journal Publications (IJP) and its journal Policy:
Offer a choice between a commercial and a noncommercial Creative Commons license for gold open access articles in our proprietary titles. The choice is dependent on the journal in which the author chooses to publish. Please refer to the journal’s homepage for specific details.
Use the user license for our open archive content
Inter Journal Publications (IJP) and its journals support green open access and accepted manuscripts can be self -archived following our sharing guidelines and are required to attach a CC-BY-NC-ND license.
Choosing a License
Once selected, Creative Commons user licenses are non-revocable. IJP and Its journals recommend author(s) check if their funding body requires a specific license. See the Creative Commons website for more details about what to consider before choosing a user license. Click here for a full list of user licenses used by Inter Journal Publications (IJP) and its journals.
| User license | Read, print and download | Redistribute or republish the article (e.g. display in a repository) | Translate the article | Download for text and data mining purposes | Reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works | Sell or re-use for commercial purposes |
| CC BY 4.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes, For private use only and not for distribution | Yes | Yes | No |
| Inter Journal Publications (IJP) user license | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes (with citation only) | No |
Please note: By default, all the articles published by IJP are under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, however, we are open in case authors want to select IJP License which is more ensures that the work is cited when use in part and is not redistributed or republished by predatory journals. Under the CC BY-NC-ND license and for the Inter Journal Publications (IJP) and its journal user license permitted 3rd party reuse is only applicable for non-commercial purposes. For further details on the rights granted to Inter Journal Publications (IJP) and its Journals, please contact us.
