Open Access Policy

The IOASD Journal of Business and Management Studies is committed to the principles of open-access scholarly publishing and believes that academic research and professional knowledge should be freely accessible to researchers, academicians, industry professionals, policymakers, students, and the global scholarly community without financial, legal, or technical barriers.

Immediate Open Access
All articles published in IOASDJBMS are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication. Readers may access, read, download, copy, distribute, share, and cite published content without subscription charges or access restrictions.

Author Rights and Copyright
Authors retain the copyright of their published work. By publishing with IOASDJBMS, authors grant the journal the right to publish, archive, index, and disseminate the article as part of the journal’s official scholarly record.

Licensing Policy
Articles published in IOASDJBMS are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Under this license, users are permitted to:

·       Share and redistribute the published material in any medium or format

·       Adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the work for non-commercial purposes

·       Use the material with proper attribution to the original author(s) and source

Commercial use of the published content without prior permission from the copyright holder is not permitted.

Accessibility and Dissemination
IOASDJBMS supports the global dissemination of scholarly knowledge through unrestricted online access. Published articles may be indexed, archived, and distributed through academic databases, institutional repositories, library systems, and search engines to enhance research visibility, academic collaboration, and citation impact.

Self-Archiving Policy
Authors are permitted to archive and share:

·       Preprints (submitted version)

·       Accepted manuscripts (peer-reviewed version)

·       Final published version of the article

Authors may deposit their work in institutional repositories, personal websites, academic networking platforms, or non-commercial repositories, provided appropriate citation to the original publication in IOASDJBMS is included.

No Reader Subscription Fees
IOASDJBMS does not charge readers or institutions for access to published content. All articles are available online without subscription fees or paywall restrictions.

Commitment to Open Science and Ethical Scholarship
The journal encourages ethical research dissemination, academic integrity, innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and global knowledge sharing in the fields of business, management, commerce, economics, finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, human resource management, organizational studies, and related disciplines in support of open science and accessible scholarly communication.