💎 Open Access Policy

🌍 The Diamond Open Access Model

The Academic Research Journal of Science and Technology (ARJST) is a Diamond Open Access journal. This means we provide immediate, permanent, and free access to all research content without any barriers for either authors or readers.

  • For Authors: There are zero Article Processing Charges (APCs). You do not pay to publish.

  • For Readers: There are zero subscription fees. You do not pay to read, download, or share.

📜 BOAI Compliance Statement

In accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access, ARJST allows users to:

“read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.”

The only role of copyright in this domain is to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

⚖️ Licensing & Reuse

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

  • Attribution (BY): Users must give appropriate credit to the author and the journal.

  • Non-Commercial (NC): The material may not be used for commercial purposes.

🏛️ Institutional Commitment

As an initiative of Nallamuthu Gounder Mahalingam College (Autonomous), the journal is fully subsidized by the institution. We believe that financial constraints should never prevent high-quality research from reaching the global scientific community.

📊 The Open Access Impact

By removing paywalls, your research follows a high-visibility path from submission to global citation:

🔗 External Resources & Registries

💡 Why Publish in a Diamond Open Access Journal?

  1. High Visibility: Your paper is accessible to researchers in developing nations and institutions without expensive library subscriptions.

  2. Increased Citations: Studies show that Open Access articles are cited more frequently than paywalled content.

  3. Author Ownership: You keep your copyright while granting us a license to publish.