Copyright and CC Licensing

Proposed Creative Commons Copyright Notices
Proposed Policy for International Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Research Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication for commercial purposes with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Creative Commons License
International Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Research is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 (CC BY - NC - ND).

  • Author(s) are allowed to copy and distribute the Article, provided this is not done for commercial purposes, and further does not permit distribution of the Article if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work.
  • Author(s) are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access). Again this has to be 'shared alike' conforming to the journal's policy of open access and should not be used for commercial purposes.