Open Access & Licensing Policy

Last Updated: 07/09/2025

The Journal of Sustainable Innovation and Impact (JSII) is a fully open access journal. All articles are made immediately and permanently available online without subscription barriers, paywalls, or registration requirements.

1. Open Access Commitment

• All published content is freely accessible worldwide at no cost.
• No subscription or registration is required to read or download articles.
• JSII follows best practices for open access publishing to maximize visibility and citation.

2. Licensing

• Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
• Authors retain full copyright of their work.
• By submitting to JSII, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish and distribute the article in any format.

3. Author Rights

• Authors may deposit preprints, accepted manuscripts, and final published versions in repositories without embargo.
• Authors may reuse content in future works, presentations, or teaching with proper attribution.
• Funding acknowledgements and ORCIDs must be included where applicable.

4. Reader Rights

• Readers may copy, distribute, adapt, and build upon JSII content for any purpose, including commercial use, provided attribution is given to the original work and source.

5. Compliance

• This policy complies with requirements of DOAJ, Scopus, and major research funders.
• Metadata is openly available for indexing and harvesting.

Contact: For questions regarding open access or licensing, please contact the Editorial Office — editorial@thesustainimpact.com.