This page is crucial for establishing the legal framework of ARJST. By using Creative Commons (CC), you protect the authors’ rights while ensuring the college’s research has the widest possible impact without being exploited for commercial gain.

⚖️ Copyright & Licensing

🔓 Our Open Access Philosophy

ARJST is a Diamond Open Access journal. We believe that knowledge should be free and accessible to all. To support this, we do not charge authors to publish (No APCs), and we do not charge readers to access our content.

💳 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

All articles published in ARJST are licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. This is the gold standard for institutional journals.

What does this mean for Readers?

Under this license, others are free to:

  • Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

  • Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material.

Under the following terms:

  • 👤 Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

  • 🚫 Non-Commercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes (e.g., selling the article or charging for access).

📝 Copyright Retention for Authors

Unlike traditional journals where authors must “give away” their copyright, ARJST authors retain full copyright of their work.

By submitting to ARJST, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to:

  1. Publish the article as the first formal publication of the work.

  2. Maintain the article in our digital archives and library repositories.

  3. Allow third-party indexers (like Google Scholar or DOAJ) to crawl and display the metadata.

🏛️ Self-Archiving Policy (Green Open Access)

Authors are encouraged to deposit the published version (Version of Record) of their article in:

  • Institutional Repositories (e.g., NGM College Library Portal).

  • Personal or Professional Websites.

  • Subject Repositories (e.g., SSRN, arXiv).

Benefit: This increases your citation count and ensures your research is preserved permanently.

🔄 The Rights-Protected Workflow

Our licensing ensures that your research moves securely from submission to global impact:

🔗 External Resources