Knowledge without barriers
Every article we publish is immediately and permanently free to read, download, and reuse — no subscriptions, no paywalls, no registration walls.
Our open access policy
ABIEdu Academic Press publishes exclusively in gold open access. All articles are released online immediately upon publication under Creative Commons licences, in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access: free availability on the public internet, permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles for any lawful purpose.
Licensing
The default licence across our journals is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This means anyone may share and adapt the work, including commercially, provided the original authors and source are credited. Authors retain full copyright; the licence is granted by the author to the world, not transferred to the publisher.
Author rights and self-archiving
- Authors retain copyright in all versions of their work.
- Any version — submitted, accepted, or published — may be deposited in institutional or subject repositories, posted on personal or lab websites, and shared with funders, with no embargo.
- Preprint posting before submission is permitted and should be disclosed at submission.
How open access is funded
We charge no subscription or reading fees, and during the launch period we charge authors nothing either. Publishing costs for the inaugural volume of JAISB are met by the publisher, Alphabets Business Innovation Ltd. Should article processing charges be introduced for a later volume, they would be payable only on acceptance, would never apply to a manuscript already under review, and would carry a genuine waiver policy — see fees and waivers. Editorial decisions are, and will remain, made blind to fee status.
Digital preservation
Long-term preservation is planned through the PKP Preservation Network (PN), the LOCKSS-based archiving service integrated with Open Journal Systems, so that content remains accessible even if a journal or the press ceases operation. Status: planned at launch — this page will state "active" only once the first content is verifiably preserved. See the transparency statement.
Open metadata and discoverability
Article metadata will be openly available for harvesting via OAI-PMH from our OJS platform, and deposited with Crossref upon DOI registration, enabling coverage by scholarly discovery services such as Google Scholar, OpenAlex, and Dimensions as they harvest our records. We describe indexing plans honestly and never claim coverage before it can be independently verified.