Open Access Policy

Economic: Journal Economic and Business (EJEB) is an open-access scholarly journal committed to promoting the dissemination, accessibility, and exchange of scientific knowledge in economics, accounting, management, and business.

EJEB provides immediate and unrestricted access to its published scholarly content in accordance with the principles of open-access publishing.

1. Open Access Statement

All articles published in EJEB are freely available online to readers immediately upon publication, without subscription fees, registration requirements, or other access restrictions.

Readers may access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of published articles, subject to the applicable Creative Commons license and appropriate acknowledgment of the original authors and source.

EJEB does not impose an embargo period on published articles.

2. Copyright and Licensing

Authors retain the copyright to their published works.

Articles published in EJEB are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Under this license, users are permitted to:

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

  • Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial purposes.

These permissions are subject to the following conditions:

  • Attribution: Appropriate credit must be given to the original authors, the journal, and the source, with a link to the license and an indication of whether changes were made.

  • ShareAlike: Adapted materials must be distributed under the same license as the original work.

  • No Additional Restrictions: Users may not apply legal terms or technological measures that restrict others from exercising the permissions granted by the license.

Full license information is available at:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

3. Author Rights

Authors retain ownership of the copyright in their articles while granting EJEB permission to publish and disseminate the work.

Authors may share and deposit their published articles in institutional repositories, personal websites, academic repositories, and other appropriate scholarly platforms, provided that the original publication is properly acknowledged.

When sharing the published version, authors are encouraged to include the article's complete bibliographic information and DOI, where available.

4. Reader Rights

EJEB supports broad public access to scholarly research.

Readers are not required to pay subscription fees or article-access charges to read or download published articles.

Reuse and redistribution are permitted in accordance with the applicable CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

5. Article Processing Charges

EJEB does not charge readers for accessing published articles.

The journal may charge authors an Article Processing Charge (APC) following manuscript acceptance to support editorial and publication operations.

Information about publication charges is provided transparently on the journal's Article Processing Charges page.

Payment of publication charges does not guarantee manuscript acceptance and does not influence editorial decisions or the peer-review process.

6. Repository and Self-Archiving

EJEB permits authors to deposit and disseminate their published articles through institutional repositories, subject repositories, and personal academic websites.

Authors should acknowledge EJEB as the original publication venue and provide a link to the published article whenever possible.

Self-archiving and redistribution must comply with the applicable Creative Commons license.

7. Long-Term Accessibility

EJEB is committed to maintaining the accessibility and availability of its published scholarly content through its online journal platform.

The journal seeks to preserve the integrity of its publication records, article metadata, and available full-text files through appropriate editorial and technical management.

Information regarding electronic preservation and archival practices is provided in the journal's Archiving Policy.

8. Open Access and Editorial Independence

EJEB maintains the independence of editorial assessment and peer-review decisions.

All manuscripts are evaluated based on scholarly quality, originality, methodological soundness, relevance to the journal's scope, and compliance with publication ethics.

Open-access publication and applicable article processing charges do not influence editorial acceptance decisions.

9. Policy References

This open-access policy is consistent with the principles of responsible scholarly communication and the Creative Commons licensing framework.

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

For further information, readers and authors may consult EJEB's Copyright and License Policy, Archiving Policy, and Article Processing Charges page.