Open Access Policy
IJVAST is a fully open-access, peer-reviewed journal. Every paper is free to read worldwide on the day it is published.
Open Access Statement
IJVAST follows the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access. All articles published in IJVAST are immediately and permanently available online, free of charge, to anyone with internet access.
License
All articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Readers are free to share, copy, redistribute, adapt, and build upon the work in any medium or format, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited.
Author Rights
- Authors retain full copyright of their published work.
- Authors grant IJVAST a non-exclusive license to publish and distribute.
- Authors may self-archive any version in institutional or subject repositories.
- No embargo period — articles are available immediately on publication.
Archiving
Published articles are stored permanently on the IJVAST platform and indexed in Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and other major academic databases.
Article Processing Charge
To sustain the open-access model, IJVAST charges a modest article processing fee only after acceptance. There are no submission, reading, or subscription fees.