HIJBEGS is an Open Access journal, meaning that all content is available free of charge to users and their institutions. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other legal purpose, without requesting prior permission from the editor or the author, as long as they respect the license to use the Creative Commons license used by the journal.

 

HIJBEGS’s open-access policy fulfils the DOAJ definition of open access because its scholarly articles are made immediately and freely accessible online, without embargoes or registration requirements, and are published under an open licence that grants users the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and otherwise lawfully reuse the full text. DOAJ specifically requires journals to provide immediate free access and clear open-licensing terms, which are the core elements of the open-access definition.HIJBEGS’s open-access policy fulfils the DOAJ definition of open access because its scholarly articles are made immediately and freely accessible online, without embargoes or registration requirements, and are published under an open licence that grants users the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and otherwise lawfully reuse the full text. DOAJ specifically requires journals to provide immediate free access and clear open-licensing terms, which are the core elements of the open-access definition.