Open Access

By “open access”, we mean that authors’ works are immediately and freely available on the public Internet, allowing anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the entire text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, use them as data in software, or use them for any other legitimate purpose.

“Reproduction is permitted for noncommercial purposes”. The most recent version of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which gives writers the broadest rights, is now being used by IJERMES, which began publishing articles under the Creative Commons Attribution License external link in 2019.

As a result, any article published in IJERMES—including data, graphics, and supplements—can be freely linked from outside sources, scanned by search engines, and reused by text mining software, websites, blogs, and other media as long as the original publisher and source are properly credited. According to IJERMES, multidisciplinary research is made easier by open-access publishing, which encourages academics from various fields to share their findings. Additionally, open-access publishing makes study findings available to academics worldwide, especially those in underdeveloped nations and the general public who may be interested. We think that open access is a valuable component of the scholarly communication process that can and should coexist with other forms of publication and communication, like society-based publishing and conferencing activities, even though IJERMES publishes all of its journals using this model.

Benefits of Open Access for Writers

The publication’s unrestricted online accessibility ensures our open-access content’s high availability and visibility. All publications published by IJERMES are freely available for download in full text. Readers of open-access journals, such as other researchers, are not required to pay a subscription fee or pay-per-view to access articles published by the IJERMES. Additionally, search engines and indexing databases are more likely to incorporate open-access journals.

Low Publishing Costs: Open-access publishers charge authors’ institutes or research funding organizations to cover editorial handling and editing expenses.
Online-only availability in IJERMES’s open-access journals results in faster publication.

By making research findings more accessible, governments would encourage innovation and receive a higher return on their investment in publicly sponsored research. They would also optimize the social returns on public investments by doing this. -Economic Cooperation and Development Organisation Publicly financed research findings must be widely accessible as part of our country’s investment in science.
Cost-effective methods should be used to disseminate the findings of publicly financed research in order to promote innovation and discovery and progress the conversion of this knowledge into advantages for the general population. A faster return on the public’s investment in this study will result from improved access to and increased sharing of knowledge, which will be used by millions of scientists, professionals, and individuals.