Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

Free and unrestricted access to scholarly knowledge.

Full Open Access

JIET is a full open-access journal. All articles are freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription fees or access barriers.

This policy is guided by the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), which promotes the free and unrestricted availability of scholarly literature to foster global knowledge sharing and equitable access to research.

Key Principles

  • All published articles are immediately and permanently free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, and link to.
  • No registration, subscription, or pay-per-view fees are required for readers.
  • There are no Article Processing Charges (APC) for authors.
  • Full-text articles are available in HTML and/or PDF format on the journal's OJS platform.

Copyright and Licensing

Copyright Ownership

Copyright is retained by the author(s). By submitting a manuscript to JIET, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish, reproduce, distribute, and archive the article. Authors retain the right to:

  • Share and self-archive the published version of their article (e.g., on personal websites, institutional repositories, or preprint servers).
  • Reuse their work in future publications with proper attribution to JIET as the original publisher.
  • Grant third-party permissions for reuse.

No copyright transfer agreement is required. Authors retain full ownership of their intellectual property.

License

All articles published in JIET are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Under this license, anyone is free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use.

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution (BY) — appropriate credit must be given to the original author(s) and JIET, with a link to the license and indication of any changes.
  • ShareAlike (SA) — derivative works must be distributed under the same or a compatible license.