Open Access & Copyright Policy
IEJMS is a fully open-access journal. All content is free to read, download and share from the moment of publication, with no embargo period and no subscription barrier.
Copyright
Authors retain copyright of their work. Published articles are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
What this means in practice
- Authors may deposit any version of their manuscript — submitted, accepted or published — in an institutional or subject repository at any time.
- Authors may reuse their own figures, tables and text in later work, with citation.
- Readers, libraries and other publishers may reproduce articles for commercial and non-commercial purposes alike, subject to attribution under CC BY 4.0.
- No permission request to the publisher is required for any of the above.
Third-party material. Where a manuscript reproduces figures,
tables or extended quotations owned by someone else, authors are responsible for obtaining
written permission and supplying the correct credit line before publication.