Open Access Statement

Open Access Information and Policy

All articles published by Ipso Jure are available worldwide under an open-access license. This means:

  • Everyone has free and unrestricted access to the full text of all articles and other types of publications published in Ipso Jure.
  • Anyone is free to reuse published material, provided they give proper credit/citation to the original publication, in accordance with the CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED open-access attribution.
 

Usage Permission

No special permission is required to reuse any part of the articles published by the Asia Pacific Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, including images and tables. All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license, which allows any part of an article to be reused without permission, as long as the original article is clearly cited. Reusing articles does not imply endorsement or approval by the authors or Asia Pacific Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Meaning of Open Access

Following the key definitions of open access in scientific literature (such as the Budapest, Berlin, and Bethesda Declarations), Asia Pacific Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies defines open access as follows:

  • Peer-reviewed scientific literature is freely available without subscription or price restrictions.
  • Literature is published in open access format immediately, with no embargo period.
  • Published materials can be reused without permission, as long as proper citation is given to the original publication.

Thus, all articles published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, including data, graphics, and appendices, can be linked from external sources, indexed by search engines, and freely reused by text-mining applications, websites, blogs, and other platforms, provided clear credit is given to the original source and publisher.

Asia Pacific Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies believes that open-access publishing promotes the exchange of research findings among scientists across various disciplines, supporting interdisciplinary research. Open access also ensures that research findings are accessible to researchers worldwide, including those in developing countries, as well as to the general public with an interest in scientific knowledge.

Although the Asia Pacific Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies publishes all its articles under an open-access model, we believe that open access enriches the scientific communication process and should be widely shared.