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Open Access Policy

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Our Commitment to Open Access

Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies is a fully open-access publisher. All articles are freely available to read, download, and share immediately upon publication — no subscription, login, or payment required.

We believe that publicly funded research should be freely accessible to everyone, including researchers in developing countries, practitioners, policymakers, and the general public.

Creative Commons License

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Under this license, anyone is free to:

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Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

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Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercially.

Provided that: Appropriate credit is given, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are indicated. Authors retain copyright of their work.

Article Processing Charges

Zero Fees

Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies charges no submission fees, no article processing charges (APCs), and no publication fees. Publishing is free for all authors.

This is made possible by the institutional support of KAAF University, which underwrites the publishing costs of JMS to ensure that neither authors nor readers face financial barriers.

Self-Archiving & Preprints

Authors are encouraged to self-archive their work:

  • Preprints: Authors may post a preprint of their submitted manuscript to recognised preprint servers (e.g. arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN) at any time.
  • Post-print: Authors may archive the final published PDF on personal websites, institutional repositories, and academic networks (ResearchGate, Academia.edu) with proper citation and a link to the journal.
  • No embargo period applies to Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies articles.

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