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What is open access?

Open Access (OA) is a publishing model where research outputs are made freely available online, without charge to the reader and without most copyright restrictions. The core principle is simple: publicly funded research should be publicly accessible.

Traditional academic publishing locks research behind expensive journal subscriptions - often costing institutions millions of rupees per year. Researchers in smaller colleges, independent scholars and students in developing regions are effectively excluded from the latest research in their field.

artikle.in follows the Gold Open Access model: papers are published open access at the point of publication, with no embargo period.

Creative Commons licensing

Under CC BY 4.0, users 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
• Read - access the full text without any registration or subscription

The only requirement is that appropriate credit is given to the original author and a link to the licence is provided. Authors retain full copyright of their work.

Author rights and earnings

artikle.in vs traditional publishing

Further reading

• Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence
• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• COPE publication ethics guidelines
• Crossref DOI system