Archiving Policy

Open Access Commitment

AIJSS is dedicated to fostering global accessibility of high-quality research in the social sciences. All published articles are freely available online, without any subscription or access charges, in support of knowledge equity and academic freedom.

All content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits users to:

  • ✅ Read, download, and share full-text articles

  • ✅ Use content for non-commercial purposes with proper attribution

  • ???? Not alter or remix the content for redistribution

This ensures wide dissemination while preserving the authenticity and integrity of scholarly work.

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To ensure the permanent availability and discoverability of research, AIJSS maintains a robust archiving policy. All articles are securely archived in trusted open-access repositories, including:

  • Institutional repositories

  • Subject-specific archives (e.g., SocArXiv)

  • Long-term digital preservation platforms (e.g., LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, PKP PN)

This guarantees that AIJSS content remains accessible for future scholarship and citation, regardless of technological changes.

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AIJSS supports green open access and encourages authors to self-archive their work:

✅ Permitted Versions for deposit:

  • Preprint (before peer review)

  • Postprint (after peer review, before publication)

  • Final published version (PDF from AIJSS)

✅ Where to Archive:

  • Author’s personal website

  • Institutional repositories

  • Disciplinary repositories (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu, SocArXiv)

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⚖️ Ethical Standards and Publication Guidelines

AIJSS adheres to international ethical standards and best practices in scholarly publishing, including:

  • COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) principles

  • Transparent, double-blind peer review

  • Conflict of interest disclosures

  • Authorship accountability and research integrity

AIJSS also complies with relevant quality assurance standards such as those set by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan and global indexing bodies.