Open Access Policy
Immediate, permanent and free access to all research published in ARJST.
Last reviewed: October 2026 · ARJST · ISSN 3048-9644 (Online)
Open access statement
The Academic Research Journal of Science and Technology is a fully open access journal. All articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication and free of charge. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose – without asking prior permission from the publisher or the authors – subject to the terms of the article licence, CC BY 4.0.
This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access.
No embargo, no registration
- Full text (PDF) of every article is available from the moment it is published.
- There is no embargo period on any content, including special issues.
- Readers do not need to register, subscribe or log in to read or download articles.
- The complete back archive since September 2024 is freely available.
Diamond model – no fees
ARJST charges neither authors nor readers. All costs are met by Nallamuthu Gounder Mahalingam College (Autonomous). See the author fees policy.
Repository and self-archiving policy
Authors may deposit any version of their article – the submitted version (preprint), the accepted manuscript and the published version of record – in any institutional, subject or general repository, or on a personal website, with no embargo. We ask that deposits link to the published article via its DOI.
Open metadata
Article metadata is openly available and may be harvested through the OAI-PMH interface at https://publications.ngmc.ac.in/journal/index.php/arjst/oai and through Crossref.
ARJST at a glance
- ISSN3048-9644
- ReviewDouble-blind, ≥2 reviewers
- Author feesNone
- LicenceCC BY 4.0
- FrequencyMonthly