Open Access Policy, Copyright & Fee Structure
Knowledge is a global public good. CISR ensures all scholarly outputs are freely accessible without financial barriers to readers or authors.
✓ Zero APC / No Author Fees
CISR Journals operate on a true Diamond Open Access model. There are no submission fees, no editorial review charges, and no Article Processing Charges (APCs). Journal operations are supported through institutional research funding.
Creative Commons Licensing (CC BY 4.0)
All articles published in CJIT and CJSS are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Under this license, readers and scholars are free to:
- Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
- Attribution: Provided appropriate credit is given to original authors and CISR publication citation.
Copyright & Author Self-Archiving Rights
Authors retain full copyright of their articles without restrictions. Authors are encouraged to deposit the published version (Publisher's PDF) in institutional repositories, preprint servers, and personal academic websites (e.g. ResearchGate, Academia.edu, SSRN) immediately upon publication with proper citation and DOI link.