OPEN ACCESS POLICY
JAMBD supports the principle that free and responsible access to scholarly research promotes wider dissemination, greater visibility, academic collaboration, knowledge exchange, and the development of science and professional practice.
JAMBD provides immediate open access to all published articles. Readers may access, read, download, and use published content without paying subscription or access fees.
The journal does not impose an embargo period on published articles. Once an article is formally published on the journal website, it is openly available to the public.
Open access supports authors, readers, institutions, and the broader scholarly community by increasing the accessibility and dissemination of research.
- free access for readers worldwide;
- wider dissemination of scholarly research;
- increased potential visibility and readership;
- greater opportunities for scholarly citation and academic collaboration;
- easier access for researchers, students, practitioners, policymakers, and the public;
- authors retain copyright to their published work; and
- lawful sharing and reuse under the applicable Creative Commons license.
Authors publishing in JAMBD retain the copyright to their work.
Authors grant JAMBD the right of first publication together with the non-exclusive rights necessary to publish, distribute, archive, preserve, index, and make the article openly available as part of the permanent scholarly record.
Unless otherwise indicated for specific third-party material, articles published in JAMBD are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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