Open Access Policy

All articles and contributions published in the Global Research Journal of Natural Science and Technology (GRJNST) are made available under a full open access model. This ensures that all research content is immediately and freely accessible to the public, promoting the widest possible dissemination of knowledge and supporting the global exchange of scientific ideas. By providing open access, GRJNST aims to maximize the visibility, impact, and accessibility of the research it publishes, enabling researchers, educators, practitioners, and the wider community to benefit from and build upon published work.

All research articles published in GRJNST are freely available to read, download, and share immediately upon publication. Articles are published under a Creative Commons license, which permits users to use, distribute, and reproduce the work in any medium, provided that proper attribution is given to the original authors. This open access model ensures that research findings can reach the broadest possible audience, without financial or legal barriers.

Authors and copyright holders grant all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right to access, copy, distribute, transmit, and publicly display the work, as well as to create derivative works in any digital medium for responsible purposes. Users may also make small numbers of printed copies for personal use, provided that proper attribution is maintained.

A complete version of each published work, along with all supplemental materials, is deposited immediately upon publication in at least one online repository. These repositories are typically supported by academic institutions, scholarly societies, government agencies, or other established organizations. This ensures open access, unrestricted distribution, long-term archiving, and interoperability with global research infrastructure.

It is important to note that open access is a property of individual works rather than journals or publishers. Community standards, rather than copyright law alone, provide the primary mechanism for enforcing proper attribution and responsible use of published work.

Open articles in GRJNST are published under Creative Commons licenses, giving authors the flexibility to choose how their work is shared. The available licenses include:

  • Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY): Allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as the original author is credited.

  • Creative Commons Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC): Allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the work non-commercially, with attribution to the original author.

Through this open access policy, GRJNST ensures that research outputs are freely available, ethically shared, and widely used to advance knowledge and innovation worldwide.