Open access Licensing

American Based Research Journal ISSN (2304-7151) is loyal to open access for academic and Research work. All the original articles and review papers published in this journal are free to access immediately from the date of publication. We don’t charge any fees for any reader to download articles and reviews for their own scholarly use.

American Based Research Journal ISSN (2304-7151) Our preferred licence is the Creative Commons Attribution v4.0 International licence (CC BY), and all ABRJ journal with open access options offer the CC BY licence. The CC BY licence is the most open licence available and considered the industry ‘gold standard’ for open access; it is also preferred by many funders. This licence allows readers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to alter, transform, or build upon the material, including for commercial use, providing the original author is credited.

Retrospective Licence Changes

Authors who have published via the immediate open access route in a ABRJ journal may change the Creative Commons licence associated with their article after publication, but may only change from a more restrictive licence to CC BY (the least restrictive licence). See our ‘Open access licensing’ policy above for more information about open access licences.