License Term Policy

Articles published under the IJMACR Journal are made freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription barriers to access. Authors who choose to participate in the IJMACR initiative and pay to have their paper freely available online will be asked to sign an open access licence agreement.

Our IJMACR journal implement a variety of different Creative Commons licences. Our journal offer a single Creative Commons licence, while others may offer a choice of two or three. The licencing options available vary by discipline and are tailored to be most appropriate to the individual journal. Please check the 'Instructions to Authors' page of journal to find out the exact policy for that title.

The three open access licences which IJMACR employs are CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, and CC-BY-NC-ND. You can find a summary of each licence below.

CC-BY Creative Commons Attribution Licence

CC-BY-NC Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Licence

CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence

CC-BY Creative Commons Attribution Licence

This is the most permissive of the Creative Commons licences and allows for maximum dissemination and use of the licenced work. The licence permits others to use, reproduce, disseminate or display the article in any way, including for commercial purposes, so long as they credit the author for the original creation.

Our journal offer this licence to authors. Our journal charge a higher open access publication charge for use of CC-BY compared to the prices for publication under the other Creative Commons licences.

CC-BY-NC Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Licence

This licence permits users to use, reproduce, disseminate or display the article provided that the author is attributed as the original creator and that the reuse is restricted to non-commercial purposes i.e. research or educational use.

CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence

This is the most restrictive of the Creative Commons licences that OUP offers. This licence allows users to download and share the article for non-commercial purposes, so long as the article is reproduced in the whole without changes, and the original authorship is acknowledged.

All Creative Commons licences state that the author’s moral rights are in no way affected by the licence terms.