Free, Unlimited Access to research information
Open Access, as its name suggests, all the scholarly articles and journals have unrestricted access by its readers, without any charge to the user or his/her institution.
With our devotion to strengthen and expand the base of quality research material, we endeavour to serve the best interest of the researchers and scholars through our Open Access publishing policy. Making all the published articles freely available online for global access, we stand our objective of wide dissemination of research material.
Under the Open Access Terms:
Users can search, read, download, and cite any article from the journals without prior permission from the publisher or the author.
Following the declarations of BOAI, we allow Open Access to peer reviewed research literature to make research articles, papers and journals available and accessible on internet free of cost. ELK Journals allow readers and users across the globe to:
Note: Users and readers are strongly recommended to read, understand and follow the provided BAOI guideline below,
"The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited".
| Key Points | Open Access | Restricted Access |
|---|---|---|
| Wide Reach | ||
| Increased Citation | ||
| Unlimited & Free Subscription | ||
| Easy to share & redistribute | ||
| Convenient Access | ||
| Blind Peer Reviewed | ||
| Easy in tracking references | ||
| Time lag from publication to receipt of article | ||
| Copyrights Transfer | ||
| Google Scholar Indexing | ||
| Entry to Foreign Databases |
All openly accessible articles undergo the same quality and relevancy check; they go through the same review process as the traditional print journal articles. The decision of acceptance or rejection rests on the papers’ merit. The articles are archived, through a self-archiving mode, for perpetuity and are submitted for relevant indexing and abstracting services, adopted by ELK Asia Pacific Journals.
For liberal reproduction and distribution of published journal articles, we adopt Creative Commons license and encourage authors to choose for CC-BY license to realise the full potential of a research literature by removing the barriers to reuse. The license acts as an effective legal agreement in achieving this.
More information on our policies can be extracted by getting in touch with us at info@elkjournals.com.