Open Access Policy

ABDIMAKES Journal is an open access journal which provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charge for readers or their institutions for access. Readers have right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles in The ABDIMAKES Journal.

 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with The ABDIMAKES Journal agree to the following terms: Authors retain copyright and grant The ABDIMAKES Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under A Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International that allows others to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) the work for any purpose, even commercially with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in The ABDIMAKES Journal. Authors can enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in The ABDIMAKES Journal. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).