Journal of Science, Technology and Applied Research is an open-access journal that provides immediate, free, and unrestricted access to all published articles. The journal believes that open access to scientific knowledge supports greater global exchange of research findings, academic collaboration, innovation development, and public benefit.

All articles published in this journal are freely available online to readers without subscription fees or access charges. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full texts, and use the articles for lawful scholarly, educational, research, and professional purposes in accordance with the applicable license.

This policy is consistent with international open-access principles that emphasize free online availability and clear reuse rights for scholarly publications. DOAJ describes open access as content that is freely available online, and its guidance for journals emphasizes both removal of price barriers and clear user rights through open licensing.

1. Immediate Open Access

Journal of Science, Technology and Applied Research provides immediate open access to its content upon publication. The journal does not apply any embargo period to published articles.

Readers may access all published articles directly through the journal website without registration, subscription, payment, or institutional access.

2. Copyright Policy

Authors retain the copyright of their published articles. By submitting and publishing an article in Journal of Science, Technology and Applied Research, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and allow the article to be distributed under the journal’s open-access license.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts do not infringe upon the copyright or intellectual property rights of others.

3. Licensing Policy

All articles published in Journal of Science, Technology and Applied Research are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise stated.

Under the CC BY 4.0 license, users are permitted to:

1. Share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format;
2. Adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose;
3. Use the material for scholarly, educational, research, professional, or other lawful purposes.

Users must provide appropriate credit to the original author(s), cite the source of publication, provide a link to the license, and indicate whether changes were made. Creative Commons explains that CC BY 4.0 permits sharing and adaptation, provided appropriate attribution is given.

 

4. User Rights

Readers and users may access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link, cite, and reuse the full text of published articles without prior permission from the author or publisher, provided that the original work is properly cited and the use complies with the applicable Creative Commons license.

Users may not use the published material in a way that misrepresents the authors, the journal, or the original findings.

5. Author Rights

Authors retain the right to:

1. Use their published article for teaching, research, and academic purposes;
2. Share the article through personal websites, institutional repositories, subject repositories, academic social networks, and other scholarly platforms;
3. Distribute the published version of the article to students, colleagues, institutions, and research communities;
4. Reuse parts of the article in future works, such as books, book chapters, theses, dissertations, or conference presentations, with proper citation to the original publication.

6. Archiving and Repository Policy

Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit the published version of their articles in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, academic databases, and other non-commercial or scholarly archiving platforms.

The deposited version should include complete citation information and a link to the article on the journal website where possible.

7. Article Processing Charge

Access to published articles is free for all readers. If the journal applies an Article Processing Charge (APC), the amount, payment procedure, waiver policy, and refund policy must be clearly stated on the journal website.

The existence of publication fees does not influence editorial decisions. Manuscripts are evaluated solely based on academic quality, originality, relevance, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, and contribution to the field.

8. No Subscription or Access Fee

Journal of Science, Technology and Applied Research does not charge readers or institutions for access to published content. All published articles are available online without subscription, paywall, login requirement, or access restriction.

9. Ethical Use of Published Content

Users must respect the integrity of the scholarly record. Published articles may not be used for plagiarism, data manipulation, misleading citation, false representation, unlawful purposes, or any activity that violates academic integrity and publication ethics.

Any reuse, redistribution, translation, adaptation, or derivative work must clearly acknowledge the original author(s), article title, journal name, year of publication, and license information.

10. Commitment to Open Science

Journal of Science, Technology and Applied Research supports the principles of open science, knowledge dissemination, research transparency, and equitable access to scholarly information.

Through this open-access policy, the journal aims to increase the visibility, accessibility, citation, and impact of published research, while supporting innovation and evidence-based solutions for government, society, industry, and the wider academic community.