Open Access Statement

The International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM), eISSN 2815-9330, is a fully open-access journal. All peer-reviewed articles are freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication without subscription, registration, or embargo.

Users are permitted to:

  • Read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles
  • Crawl articles for indexing
  • Pass content as data to software
  • Use articles for any lawful purpose

All issues of IJBM and published materials are freely available in the Current Issue and Archive sections of the journal website.

License Terms

All articles published in IJBM are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

This license allows anyone to:

  • Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Remix, transform, and build upon the material
  • Use the material for commercial purposes

Provided that:

  • Proper credit is given to the author(s)
  • A link to the license is provided
  • Any changes made are indicated

License details: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Copyright

The International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) allows author(s) to retain copyright without restrictions.

Publication is based on the following terms:

  • Copyright of the article remains with the author(s).
  • Authors grant the publisher, the International Emerging Scholars Society (IESS), a non-exclusive license to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, and archive the article, and to identify itself as the original publisher.
  • Authors assure that the manuscript is original and does not infringe any copyright, and agree to indemnify the publisher against any claims.
  • Where copyrighted material is used, authors are responsible for obtaining permission and providing documentation.
  • Authors are permitted to deposit any version of their work (submitted, accepted, or published) in institutional or other repositories.
  • Authors permit the publisher to assign a DOI and archive articles in databases and indexing services.

Digital Archiving and Preservation
IJBM ensures long-term accessibility of its content through multiple preservation mechanisms:

  • PKP Preservation Network (PLN): Selected issues are harvested and preserved to ensure continued access even if the journal’s website becomes unavailable.
  • LOCKSS Network: IJBM content is harvested and preserved via LOCKSS. A gateway manifest is available at: https://iessociety.org/index.php/IJBM/gateway/lockss
  • CLOCKSS: The CLOCKSS system has permission to ingest, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit, providing an additional layer of distributed digital preservation. https://iessociety.org/index.php/IJBM/gateway/clockss

Author Self-Archiving Policy

IJBM permits and encourages authors to post:

  • Submitted version (preprint)
  • Accepted manuscript
  • Published version (Version of Record)

Authors may deposit these versions on:

  • Personal websites
  • Institutional repositories
  • Subject repositories

Authors should provide full bibliographic details acknowledging publication in IJBM.

Article Processing Charges (APC)

The activities of the International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) are partially supported by the International Emerging Scholars Society (IESS), New Zealand. There are no submission or review fees.

Effective 1 April 2025, IJBM charges a modest Article Processing Charge (APC) of USD 100 per accepted manuscript. This fee is intended to cover essential publication costs, including editorial handling, peer review management, copyediting, typesetting, online hosting, and long-term archiving, while helping maintain manageable submission volumes and high-quality peer review.

APCs are payable only after the manuscript has been accepted for publication.

The APC is the same regardless of:

  • number of authors
  • article length
  • country of origin

Click here to pay the APC

After making the payment, please email your payment receipt to contact@iessociety.org with your article title in the subject line.

Please note: APC fees are non-refundable once paid.

Waivers or discounts may be considered on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of the editorial board.