Open Access

Readers Insight Publisher provides open access to all its publications to all readers across the world as per the definition of the open access “free and unrestricted online availability” of journal content and readers can access publications free of charge.

Readers Insight journals provide immediate and permanent access to all its articles free of charge and published under the CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and the source are credited.

Archiving Policy

Long term preservation and archiving (LPTA) of data ensures that the journal’s data is backed up in a network of libraries created by a dedicated digital archiving and preservation service. The Readers Insight Publisher employs PKP Private’s LOCKSS network to create a file distributed among the participated libraries, allowing these libraries to create permanent files of the journal with goals to preserve and restore the digital data. Other than that, a separate Doi has been assigned to each article.

Readers Insight Publisher allows authors to reprint the content and have no objection if authors preserve data in personal achieve or institutional repository before or after the publication of the manuscript.

Licenses & Copyright Permissions

All articles published in Readers Insight journals are open access and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The complete copyrights are retained by the Journal. Given the open access status, the articles may be downloaded, read and cited without any prior permission or fee. However, in special circumstances, a different license may be used. Such conditions may arise when funding or confidential nature of research is involved. In this case, please mention the special condition to the editorial office prior to the submission. An exception may be granted which will be decided by the publisher.

Permissions to use copyrighted materials

Any published material which is not open access and is copyrighted or require original creates special permission are not to be included in the manuscript without adopting a formal procedure to obtain the permission. Permission is also required for authors own work for which copyright is held by the publisher (a norm in subscription-based journals), a substantial extract quoted from someone else’s work, and slightly altered or unaltered published material including but not limited to figures, tables, images, extracts, schemes, maps, graphs, photographs etc. However, if the author(s) is reconstructing a table of own data published somewhere else (must cite), using short quotes or re-drawing graphics, charts, schemes and artwork such that they are changed beyond recognition, permission is not required. The responsibility of obtaining permission (and timely) is the author(s) responsibility. Readers Insight does not bear any responsibility to obtain permissions on the author(s) neither publishes any material which is without formal permission. The copyright holder must also be acknowledged in the manuscript.

License Information

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

You 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.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

Attribution— you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions— you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Archiving Policy