Open Access Policy

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access (http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/).

IJAA has signed the declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/list_signatures) and will join in the task of removing the barriers to open access and building a future in which research and education in every part of the world are that much more free to flourish (http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read).

Authors retain the copyright of their manuscripts, and all articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.